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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on the Home of Common sense with yet another set of record figures, bigger audience now than ever before on the Independent Republic of Mike Graham. Who would be surprised by that? Certainly not me. Absolutely extraordinary. It is talk radio. Thank you to everybody for listening. Thank you for continuing to listen. And thank you for telling more and more people to continue to listen because there's not much common sense going on out there. We've got it all here. It's the morning after the night

before. We're all busy trying to work out whether we're worse off or better off after the Rishi

Sunak spending splurged yesterday, making Britain into one of the world's highest tax nations.

The chance that's 150 billion pounds free included more money for all government departments, more benefits,

reductions on business rates, and cheaper booze for some bizarre reason.

But hang on, where's you getting all the money from?

Oh yeah, he's getting it from us.

The tax burden for us all is soon going to be 36.2% apparently, which seems like quite a lot of money.

That means you've basically got to work for a third of the year before you can keep any of it. That's not very good, is it? Rishi said yesterday you didn't want the

government to have to be responsible for everything that goes wrong into size. On that, we agree.

But if you'd known that you were going to have to pay more tax so that lots of people could be told to stay at home and not bother working. He might have been slightly less in favour of the lockdown, mind you. So we'll talk about that. More money for the NHS as well. So we'll be counting down to see how soon those

waiting lists start diminishing. I had a quick look as I walked past Guy's hospital today.

It doesn't look as if anything's changed. People are still queuing up. People are still going

in and out. I don't see any difference, really. Somehow I think it's going to take a while. John Renton, Chief Political Commentator at the Independent,

is here to help navigate us through it all.

But the bottom line is,

does anybody actually care anymore about budgets?

Because people are not that interested.

That's the point.

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