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Coming up, the hardest days since World War II.

Experts deliver a stark warning following the budget with tax cuts requiring immigration to prop up the growth.

And pensioners are the budget's biggest losers who face a collective hit of around £8 million,

as support shifts from the rich and the old to the young and the poor, supposedly.

But fears over electric cars when a driver feared for his own life

when his vehicle went rogue on a motorway.

Good evening, Britain, and welcome to the Independent Republican Mike Graham, right here on Talk TV.

It's been quite the week in the dangerous world of international journalism,

and we're here to make sense of it all,

but can we? How can you explain a government that promises to cut immigration for more than

the 13 years and then declares that we'll need more immigration to achieve proper economic growth?

How can you explain a refusal to increase defence spending when the world is more dangerous

that it's been in over 50 years? And how is it possible that local councils are finding more

and more ways

to tax motorists? We will attempt to answer all of these questions right here, right now.

This is the Independent Republican Mike Graham. Strap yourselves in. It's going to be a bumpy

ride. And now, we were all expecting the chance to blow us away with his fiscal firepower and deliver a beefed-up budget.

Really?

Instead, he stands accused by leading economists of conspiracies of silence because Britain's are facing the most difficult years since World War II.

And while the Chancellor presented a rosy picture of a growing economy and lower taxation,

he forgot to add, most of the growth will be driven

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