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Hello Buglers, I am Andy's Altzman and welcome to issue 4,608 of the Bugle,

a special edition of the world's leading and only audio newspaper for a visual world,

recorded at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London as a UK 2024 election special. Why was that? Well, Buglers because as you may have heard on for example the

bugle, the UK is on the cusp of a truly momentous election where 14 years of Tory stewardship may and when I say may I mean may I don't

want to say well be coming to a soggy end I was joined at the Bloomsbury by Nishkumar, Tiff Stevenson and Anu Vapal plus the 500 remaining

Londoners' knots at Taylor Swift's Wembley Show. Let's get on with the show. Strap yourselves in, it's election time.

We are performing and recording on the 23rd of June 2024.

Not a year that gets a lot of whooping and cheering.

To be honest, it's been a bit of a shit year, to be honest,

frankly, a prick of a decade in what's been a bit of a shit of a millennium,

but there was a hundred and upwards.

And it's still a week and a half until, to be more precise, what time is it, 615?

Polling starts at 7 a.m. on the 4th of July, that's 252 hours and 40 minutes away from the often crucial voting state of

the election that's 1.50 weeks it is a week and a half that's 0.29% of a millennium away from voting for those you like to keep track of these things.

So rather than looking at things that happened on the 23rd of June, we're going to look at the 4th of July.

And why Sunak chose the 4th of July and why Sunak chose the 4th of July for this election.

Because these things are always tactical, aren't they?

Like they've got a independence referendum in 2014.

They chose the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Banachburn, hoping that

it would inspire patriotic vote, which I don't think is how democracy should work.

And if any of you, when you vote, find yourself sitting now with

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