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"Only I can thrill the electorate sufficiently!" shouted the member for Bonking-on-the-side.
"Let's elect him. He's male," added a supporter. "He's a cool, limp liar," said another. "And anyway the voters can't stand his accent on air."
"Listen, you brainy lot," said an elder statesman of the party. "I pose him no threat. Lace my shoes together if you think I'm going to run, but what you're saying is mob triviality gone mad."
"We all know your policy," said another. "It's chuck in job, run for bank."
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"A divorce, you think? Very topical! But the Chinese also say `he who closes a mine, opens a sewer of vileness'. The road to real power's blackmail, I say."
"I've never seen a worse mastery of politics. Follow you and we'll all end in jail."
"I see no clink," said the other, "but perhaps we'd do best to opt neither for me, too vivid, nor risk lazy him."
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