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

We've got through the American election this week.

We've endured another bonfire night, which was pretty noisy in my neck of the woods, and we've entered yet another nationwide lockdown.

Can 2020 get any more strange? There's only about eight weeks left of it now, thankfully.

Today, we will take stock of where we are in the world, what you're going to be doing this weekend,

and what could possibly go wrong? And we're kicking off with this question. Just how many different ways are there of saying the word wrong? How many times do you have to be wrong before you get fired from a job

that requires you to be right? How much should you be allowed to mislead people before you lose

all your credibility? And what do you have to do to make your bosses lose all confidence

in your judgment? I'm not talking about Joe Biden. I'm not referring to Boris Johnson.

I am, of course, talking about the brothers grim, the masters of disaster, the gruesome-to-sum,

messrs. Chris Witty and Sir Patrick Ballance. Things got so bad yesterday that the Prime Minister

ditched them altogether in favour of the head of NHS England, Sir Simon Stevens, for the press

briefing in the afternoon. This was after the UK

Statistics Authority said this. The use of data has not consistently been supported by transparent

information being provided in a timely manner. In other words, they've been peddling a load of

old cobblers and the government that was swallowed it hook, line and sinker. We'll talk to John

rental from the independence, if we'll get him to agree. 034449-1,000. Coming up, we are checking in on the

latest from the US election count, where if they got any slower, they would probably

be registered as dead. We are told there might well be a declared winner today, but then they

said that yesterday as well, and this is going to rumble on for quite some time. I kid you not. 0344449,000. Today I want you to do your own forecasting of things as well. Things that

might happen this weekend. Here's mine. I'm going out to buy six bottles of wine this afternoon.

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