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the Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

The Big Chief with a badge, a cattle prod and a head on a stick.

Dangerous mid-morning debate with the Great Dictator.

The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Easter Monday,

which also happens to be, by the way, Earth Day.

And I've had a great idea.

Let's turn central London into a Glastonbury-style festival venue,

a high and massive attack to play a gig,

while thousands block the roads and hand out plastic bottles of water to each other.

Oh, sorry, somebody's already thought of that?

Oh, okay.

But anyway, listen, it's all going wrong one week on because the old Extinction Rebellion crowd

have been here for over a week now, occupying all sorts of different parts of London.

But according to those eco-warriers in the know, there's a split emerging inside

Extinction Rebellion, and it's a bit like the People's Popular Front of Judea versus

the People's Front of Judea. All I can say is there are those who want to quit the

occupation of our streets, and I think we've reclaimed Waterloo Bridge already, and those who

want to carry on even after all the schools go back tomorrow. And of course, we're not just talking about the students going back and the pupils going back.

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