Hello, I'm Matt Surely, and this is Politics Without the Boring But it's hope you've been booking your

Easter holidays now we know the election definitely won't be until the second half of the year

unless of course which he's seen that changes his mind which is entirely possible

he's done that before coming up on today's episode kir stammer says bring it

on to TV debates firing the starting gun on months of

wrangling between political parties and broadcasters so today we go inside

the election debate debate. How does the debates even get on screen?

Before that, Night at the Marriott, Indian Night and James Marriott

on whether anti-woke comedy is actually funny.

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First on Politics Like the Boing Bits, as we always do on a Friday, let's take a look

at what we learned this week. Yeah, we learned when the election will be.

My working assumption is we'll have a general election in the second half of this year.

And he definitely wouldn't say one thing and do another, would he?

So actually more accurately. My working assumption is we'll have a general election.

Yeah we well. We learned that Kia Starmas darling up his optimism from the previous

setting of disantery outbreak at Dignitass, promising hope.

Not the hope of the easy answer, the quick fix, the miracle cure.

People have had their fill of that from politicians over the last 14 years.

No, they need credible hope.

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