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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk TV. We've reached the end of another week, ladies and gentlemen.

We're not quite sure how we did it. We managed to get through a few strikes. I think there are probably some on today as well. I don't remember.

But now we've got some more strikes looming. It looks like the nurses strike has been sorted out.

According to some in the market of working up percentages, there will be some people in the NHS who actually will get approaching 18% over the course of the last fiscal year.

But basically they've agreed to go for 5%.

We'll be talking later on the show to Dame Anne Rafferty, former head of the Royal College of Nursing.

But it now turns out the passport office wants to have a go.

They haven't been on strike for ages, they say.

So they'd quite like to be on strike for a few weeks coming up to the summer. Marvellous, isn't it? Fantastic.

We're going to be talking about Europe this morning. Richard Tyson's here, leading of reform, of course,

because there's some interesting stories coming out of France, where the streets of Paris seem to be burning constantly, because Manuel Macron

is now so unpopular, there is literally a second revolution going on. In Holland, or the Netherlands,

if you prefer, there's an interesting development politically where one of the smaller parties

has now become one of the bigger parties, and in Spain, if you go there on holiday, they're going to

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