Gotta Have Faith
Morning Glory
Ricky Freelove
4.4 • 741 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Former MEP Ann Widdecombe kicks off today's show by delving into the morning's top headlines as Britain can no longer be described as a Christian country, three quarters of Church of England priests believe, according to a landmark survey conducted by The Times. Former Met Police Chief Superintendent Parm Sandhu joins shortly after to discuss the weekend of carnage at Notting Hill carnival as Stabbings at the Notting Hill Carnival reached the highest level in seven years at the weekend with violence, sexual offences and assaults on police officers marring the spectacle. Minister for London Paul Scully returns to The Independent Republic to discuss further this week's ULEZ expansion. Drivers must pay a charge of £12.50 per day to drive a non-compliant vehicle anywhere in the zone under the controversial clean-air plan. A £160m scrappage scheme is still available for all Londoners to claim from, with a maximum of £2,000 being offered per vehicle, and Annabel Denham from The Telegraph returns for her weekly takedown of the week's headlines. All that and so much more, so tune in!
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| 0:00.0 | See it, hear it, think it, talk radio and talk TV. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk TV. |
| 0:09.2 | We have got an awful lot to talk about, ladies and gentlemen, and we are going to start doing it right here and right now. |
| 0:13.9 | We are the Home of Common Sense, as you might expect, and we are going to kick off with Anne Winnicum, |
| 0:18.0 | who is, of course, one of the great people who used to be in part of the government that was worthwhile. |
| 0:24.2 | She now writes a column of The Daily Express. She comes on this show on a regular basis. |
| 0:27.5 | We're going to ask her a question which has been posed on the front page of the Times this morning, |
| 0:31.7 | which is now that Britain is no longer a Christian country. |
| 0:36.6 | And this is not being said by some UGov poll. |
| 0:39.1 | This is being said by a load of people in the clergy. Three quarters of the Church of England |
| 0:45.2 | priests believe that it is no longer Christian. Now Anne, of course, is a Christian and she'll have a |
| 0:50.6 | view of that. She is a former government minister and she's now a member of |
| 0:54.3 | Reform UK. The survey analysed responses from almost 1,200 priests, the catch-all term for |
| 0:59.6 | ordained individuals who can celebrate sacraments such as Holy Communion. The respondents mainly included |
| 1:04.9 | vickers, rectors, curates, chaplains and retired priests who still serve. And I think that for an |
| 1:10.2 | awful lot of people in this |
| 1:11.1 | country, they feel that Christianity has been sort of put to one side. I'm no particular |
| 1:15.4 | advocate of any particular religion. For me, an awful lot of the problems in this world are caused |
| 1:20.8 | by religion. And for me, an awful lot of the kind of zealotry, which has come now through the |
| 1:25.9 | climate change movement and through various |
| 1:28.5 | other movements has been almost religious in its zealotry and that is probably no good thing |
| 1:33.9 | to speak of. We're going to be talking as well about Ulaz, of course, day two of Sadiq Khan's |
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