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The plans are afoot, ladies and gentlemen, but it is a very familiar story, isn't it?

Aside from a rather bizarre intervention of Nikki Minard and Chief Medical Officer Chris Whittie's response,

we are back to Square One, aren't we?

Listening to those bungling sage numptings who wants a warn of impending doom and gloom all over the place.

Winter is coming,

declared the Prime Minister, 7,000 people a day in hospital, they cry, more restrictions are required, they say, we must act now, we must save Christmas, we must save the NHS, we might

make masks mandatory again, we might be in trouble, we must follow the signs. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

We've heard it all before, haven't we? And we're not buying it this time. Up first this morning,

we'll be getting the real story from Jamie Jenkins, our favourite statistician, who will reveal

that the modelers are way off, as usual. Even at the height of the corona pandemic in January,

there were only 4,000 a day in hospitals. These people

are now predicting we're going to have 7,000? Where the hell are they getting that from?

Then we'll get the view from main on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges, who promised all this would be over by July.

Yes, that's right, that's last July. Does he still think we're out of the woods? We'll find out. 0344-49-1,000. Meanwhile, there's a lot going on elsewhere this morning. Those

insulate Britain war-ons are back blockadey the M-25 again, trying to get everyone's loft lagged. An

ISIS bride, Shemima Begham, has popped up yet again, this time in a TV interview from a refugee

camp in Syria, claiming she didn't mean to offend anyone, and she just thought she was joining

a Muslim religious

community. She was having hair and makeup done as well by the way so she doesn't look terribly

desperate. Dear oh dear oh dear. We'll be checking in with terrorist expert Dr Paul Stop from

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