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The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics. Thank you very much indeed for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the rest of the world.

And as ever in our time together during this weekly podcast, we have got a lot to cram in.

If it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect a bit on when prime ministers fall.

Now, it doesn't happen very often and it's not a prediction

that the current prime minister is about to fall. But it is interesting to look at the required

ingredients in terms of toppling a prime minister. It really rarely happens. So if Johnson is in

deep trouble, he is in a pretty freakish situation as a prime minister if he falls. But that

will come shortly. Before then, oh yeah, brilliant questions this week.

We've got some reflections from some of you on, oh yeah, I got a bit angry last week, but I'm an actor like Boris Johnson.

And I'm so used to acting calm, you know, and just, oh yeah, let's make

sense of it all and be very Buddhist when I do my analysis, that even when I'm telling you all,

I'm about to be angry. Some of you said, you didn't sound angry enough. Well, I am bloody,

bloody angry about so many things. But I'm

afraid I'm conditioned to act calm. So I'm sorry if I wasn't angry enough. But anyway, I was

talking partly about the passivity of voters in England, actually. Their tendency to vote for outcomes that will actually impact adversely on them

and then just to accept it and so on.

Anyway, some really interesting responses as to why that is from all of you, some brilliant

contributions to the ongoing debate about whether there are some virtues

to be explored in co-payments as a way of funding public services where the user pays a bit

depending on income and just as a way of getting more money into the system. And perhaps, although this is

much challenged by a lot of you, becomes more empowered with that payment system. Anyways,

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