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🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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0:00.0 | Mid-morning with Mike Graham, Talk Radio. |
0:04.8 | Now, let's say a very good morning to Mr. Henry Smith, Conservative MP for Crawley. |
0:08.4 | Henry, welcome to the show. |
0:10.2 | Good morning. |
0:10.9 | Thank you very much for joining me. |
0:12.5 | I have to say, given that we've now prolonged Freedom Day until July 19th, |
0:17.4 | it makes, I suppose, for quite a decent backdrop that the grey sky has descended |
0:21.4 | upon us and it's all doom and gloom out there. It does feel a bit gloomy this morning, |
0:26.8 | not just in a meteorological sense, but also because of that vote last night in the |
0:33.2 | comments to delay easing of restrictions. I voted against the government because I think with a world |
0:39.7 | successful vaccination program, we should be starting to open our economy up, allow people to get |
0:46.1 | back to live their lives as normally as possible. I represent an aviation community, |
0:51.6 | Gatwick airports, and the effect has been devastating on that. |
0:55.3 | We need to get back to normal for the sake of our economy, people's jobs, our well-being, |
1:01.0 | and all those other health conditions that are being neglected as well. |
1:03.9 | Exactly right. And I mean, it was a good turnout for the Tories who did vote against it. |
1:07.9 | And I think the people certainly listening to this radio station will thank you for doing it Henry because I think people misunderstand and I think government |
1:14.8 | misunderstands in general the sort of the wider effects of the lockdown you know not |
1:19.7 | simply the fact that people can't go on holiday but the fact that many of your constituents in |
1:24.2 | Crawley will be involved in the airline business in one way or another. They might be working at Gatwick in a shop. |
1:29.0 | They might be working in the aviation sector as a maintenance engineer. |
1:32.8 | You know, they might be working in cabin crew. |
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