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I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

Julie Burchill

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Julie Burchill
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: July 3
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Frenchay
Gloucestershire
Bovine
Votes
Voted
Labour
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Stupid
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Always

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