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the Independent Republic of Mike Graham, on Talk Radio.

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

It is the start of a brand new week, ladies and gentlemen, and I've got some news for you.

Because that's what we do here at Talk Radio.

We actually bring you the news.

There are some people who don't bring you the news.

I wouldn't bother paying the attention to them, because if you haven't got any news, you can't really call yourself a news operation, can you?

We've got news and I've got news for you.

And here it is.

I'm feeling rather positive today.

Forget the doomongers and the naysayers who reckon the government is plotting to bring in vaccine passports when nobody is looking.

Forget the negativists who tell you that it's all a clever plot to entrap us and make us feel like we have won a small victory.

Instead, here's what you should be doing.

Rejoice and bask in the glow of a victory that is hard for and most definitely well deserved.

Because yes indeed the decision to ditch Maxine Passports, as announced yesterday by the government,

is most definitely down to us here at Talk Radio.

And to you you the public

who have made it very clear that we are not interested in having a two-tier society,

that we will not be cowed into showing proof of some kind of medical procedure in order to go

and watch the new Abbotor. Not interested. We're not doing it. No thank you very much indeed.

It's the beginning of the end for the government's draconian policies

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