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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.

We'll all end in tears, we are assured.

In just over one week, the Prime Minister has promised to lift the nationwide lockdown that never really was, depending on where you live, and how good your MP is at

negotiating members of the COVID Recovery Group backbench Tories who are against lockdown

will be doing their level best to ensure that their constituencies get the best outcomes.

Meanwhile, the Labour Party will be agitated and making a lot of noise without actually

offering anything of any merit whatsoever. Well, there we are then. I can't imagine what's going to happen in London, but I can't imagine as well than making sure that restaurants and bars stay closed in London into Tier 3. Once they finally fixed the old technical glitches of Downing Street yesterday. Boris Johnson revealed that this

is the season to be jolly careful. But we will have to wait until Thursday to find out exactly

what areas in which tiers. The expectation is that parts of the north of England will be stuck

in tier 3 or that there might even be more tiers introduced, a bit like Scotland. You know,

it's like some kind of game, isn't it now? We'll try and make sense of it all, but we need your help as well today, especially today,

because we need to know what's been going on in your neck of the woods. What are you seeing?

What is open, what is closed? And how normal is life going to be for you?

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