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Good morning, welcome to the home of common sense right here in the Independent Republic of Mike Graham.

Never has common sense been more required than right now because we look around outside.

There's a beautiful blue sky, but there's trouble at Mill, as they say up in the north of England,

because there's a lot of idiotic people out there who seem to think it's a good idea to stoppile everything before it runs out without realizing that by stoppiling it, it runs out.

Very good. Well done. So, we awoke to the news that number 10 is telling everyone not to panic.

They might as well have gone to the rooftops of Downey Street and shouted, panic, just panic, whatever

you want to do. The ludicrous consumers of this country are queuing up for petrol and anything else they think

there might be a shortage over the next few weeks.

As ever, we need you to be our eyes and ears and tell us what you're seeing.

Are there really people stupid enough out there? We want to sit in their cars for hours on there,

just so they could get a few litres of diesel?

Sadly, I think the answer might be yes. I had some calls yesterday from people

saying they were spotting hues of cars outside petrol stations at 11 o'clock at night because

they're frightened they might not have enough petrol to make it through the weekend. 0344-491,000.

We're joined by Richard Tice this morning, businessman, leader of the Reform UK party. He's got plenty

to say about the mounting pressure on the energy business the logistics HGV drivers and the

business of doing business and also Boris Johnson's rather ludicrous claim at

the United Nations yesterday that it's rather lucrative to go green and it's

very easy to go green you know what I think about that we'll also be asking

me about the latest abomination from insulate Britain today despite the home the home office injunction, they're blockading the port of Dover, and most of them

seem to be on benefits. Can't we just stop them being paid? Wouldn't that be the way forward?

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