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Cancel any time T's and sees apply. Welcome to the New States Week podcast. I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis and this week we're talking

about class with research of Danny Dooling, the Lib Dems with our politics team, and the recent

elections in Iceland with our contributing editor, Laurie Penny. I'm joined by a political editor Ralph Wild Bear and the the editor of the Stagers Georgia Eaton to talk about the politics and the big issues of the week.

First up, the lived Dems. Raff, where are they?

They are not doing terribly well in European polls as everyone can see

But they are their mood is is more buoyant than I think a lot of people think it ought to be

And as I've written my column about that this week, I'll give that a quick plug.

But the reason is the sort of the thesis that I was trying to follow is that everyone's been talking about

Nigel Farage and UKIP, it's great UKIP, it's all terribly exciting,

sort of new actor on the stage it seems.

But actually the sort of the force that's really changed the way politics operates, the things that when we kind of look back on the history of this parliament,

we'll go, wow, that was actually something quite substantial happening in the way everyone had to behave in politics.

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