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PADDY McGUFFIN tires of the Establishment parties' wranglings over an EU election which none seems to really want to win, but which none will leave to the others

Christ on a bike! Are these elections not over yet?

I know it’s important, but for God’s sake you can barely get through your front door at night for all the canvassers and flyers for people you’ve never heard of and have no interest in meeting.

It’s like being under siege from a particularly annoying branch of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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