Anyway, how are you?

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham.

This is of course a talk TV and we are here. We've made it to another Friday and all is well.

Well, all is well in here. I'm not quite sure about out there, because Richard Tyson

joined me this morning, and we are going to be running the line over Britain PLC, because

we've now had Keir Stama's idea of how to solve the immigration crisis, and everybody,

but everybody has said it won't work. We've now got Rishi Sunak and Keir Stama, both

proposing systems that will not work.

So what are we to do? What can we do?

How are we going to solve this problem?

We're going to need your help, of course.

0344-49-1,000.

Also, we're going to be talking about everything else that's going on in the world,

including the fact that NHS waiting lists have hit record highs of 7.7 million. And one senior doctor has actually said

going to hospital will make you sicker than when before you went in. And I know that's true

because there's an awful lot of people who've told me that they have sent elderly relatives into

hospital and get something done and they've never come out. And I know that sounds very harsh,

but it's actually true. We're going to also

talk about HS2. Now the government has said, well, maybe it won't go to Manchester after all.

So, it'll literally just go from London to Birmingham. Brilliant. Fantastic. 0344-49-1,000 is the number.

We've got loads more coming up. Sebastian Gorker joins us a little bit later in the show

from Washington, D.C. to give us the latest on Hunter Biden, who's now been charged with some crimes,

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