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Nick dwi's in the studio again hey it's
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good to see you it is I I was trying to
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remember when I was last here it was not
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that long ago it was on your golfing
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trip wasn't it which I won we know very
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very disappointed you didn't cover that
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in more detail I think think it got
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enough detail I'm sure it did for those
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that don't know Nick D is actually
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currently chairman of visit England um
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but also was MP for Enfield North for a
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number of years has written a couple of
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successful novels they did well yes and
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I think they're still and also has his
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fingers in many different pies and
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currently also a presenter on trt world
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which is Turkish World Service correct
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it's basically trying to become BBC
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World we've got a lot of BBC people
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working yeah you have and uh I've got
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people I also do stuff with uh talk of
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course and we' we've got me uh members
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of production teams joining us uh big
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offices in London about 100 People based
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in grazin Road in the itm building and
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uh we do English Channel stuff um we'll
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look a little bit more about that
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because you're going to bring the show
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to the Costa Blanca then Westminster
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watch for trt what are you looking for
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well this is fascinating now I'd love to
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know how many people were aware of a law
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change in January of this year that
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restored the right to vote in the UK in
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quite a few referenda should we have
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them again uh and the general election
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which until then you lost as an expat so
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if you've been overseas for 15 years you
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lost the right to vote in your country
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which I always thought was was a a damn
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cheek and I campaigned along with a chat
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called Sir Jeffrey Clifton Brown at the
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time who was an MP to have this changed
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and he eventually got it changed into
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law there was a lot of lobbying going on
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there really was and of course what
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would have happened had those that had
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been overseas for 15 years or more been
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allowed to vote in the brexit referendum
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for goodness sake and we we we'll be
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talking to someone during uh the
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interviews that we're going to conduct
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down here what we're trying to do is I
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said I said to the the Masters at trt I
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said are now over three maybe three and
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a half million expats in the world who
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will have the chance to vote in this
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election that's huge okay that's a big
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number when you think only about 35
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million vote anyway so I'm I want to
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hear from people did they know about the
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law change uh does it affect them do
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they vote anyway um what do they think
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of their country when as an exat you've
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been over here and you look back what do
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you think of the state of politics some
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people feel that it doesn't quite affect
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them but if you think about things like
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cly of people have in the UK and would
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affect the decisions that they could
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possi take election referenda and and
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also I'm curious has any political party
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tried to reach out to these three and a
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half million so we're the first
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broadcaster to be doing that we're
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coming to Spain for a very good reason
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not just because I have deep affection
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for this place but we're doing it
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because of that three and a half million
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there are about 400,000 expats
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registered here in Spain so it's a good
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snapshot then of what to expect you know
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you keep talking worldwide because
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actually the the the the program that
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you do and the station you're working
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for is like say a world a world service
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program it is and and and obviously
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these are the we're we're on the
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english- speaking channels but actually
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in the costablanca it's the highest
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density of Spain of xats as well so
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there's about 76,000 so we are going to
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be doing a number of things we setting
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up some interviews we're going to be
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actually talking to you as you know
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will'll be here in Bay radio Studio as
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well uh I've my producers given you me
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orders to give you on on what we're
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going to be talking to you about and you
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can answer how you like uh but also I'd
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love to hear from anyone regular
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listeners who've suddenly thought oh
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this is interesting or I've never voted
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I didn't know I voted and by the way or
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I just don't care what goes on back in
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my country let us know perhaps contact
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youed and and and we will be quite
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simply in the street talking to people
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as well getting what they call Vox pops
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as well as some pre-arranged interviews
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but if you're listening and you want to
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have your say and you want to appear on
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this channel 95 million worldwide uh
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we'll also be doing social media um uh
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clips of it throughout the UK uh and I'm
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quite sure you'll be doing your bit down
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here it's going to be a lot of fun we
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are down here uh on the 22nd of May so
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it's not far away uh sorry 22nd 23d and
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then um I think I think I'm calling it a
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day on the 24th super uh Nick D it's
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trtworld.com Westminster watch is the
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program if You' like to take a look and
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see the sort of things that Nick
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normally does on on the program but
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looking forward to that coming to the
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cost of Blanka towards the end of May
