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The week in politics with PADDY MCGUFFIN

Hundreds of irate punters jammed the BBC’s switchboards this week to vent their ire at the fact that a flagship programme had been destroyed because the dialogue was rendered completely incomprehensible and the central figures appeared to be mumbling absolute gibberish.

Well that’s the parliamentary channel for you…

I jest, of course. There’s no way hundreds of people watch the parliamentary channel.

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