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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on talk radio.

It's the morning after the nightmare before.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson divided the nation into three different parts and the country may never recover.

Tempers are running high in Liverpool, the epicentre of coronavirus today, where lockdown measures were

restaurants, bars and hotels out of business, and where the locals are already talking about

ignoring the rules. Today we're kicking off with Desmond Swain MP, one of the sole voices of reason

from the Tory backbenchers on resisting the lockdown madness. But as more and more people question the

motives of the government, there are plenty of people asking the question. What else are they supposed to do? And that's what we're going to ask

this morning. What else can the government do? What else should the government do? And what else

would actually work in the sense of saving lives while still saving the economy as well? And of course,

in order to help us do that, we need to help hear from you.

Does anybody really expect people to put up with this craziness for six months?

Which is what we're being asked to do.

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And secondly, does anybody really believe that this will be the end of it?

No, it won't be.

Because you know very well in a couple of weeks' time. London

will suddenly find itself in the midst of a lockdown. Parts of the south-east of England will

suddenly find itself in the midst of a lockdown. And the government will basically do everything

in its power to lock down the country in all but name. Coming up later on, I'll be asking

why Good Morning Britain thought it was a good idea to interview Mike Tyson this morning when he was clearly impaired in some way, possibly

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