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Talk Breakfast

John Bercow, MPs for a deal, And Prescription Drugs

Talk Breakfast

Ricky Freelove

Current Affairs, Politics, News, Uk News, Phone In, Debate, British News, Conservatives, Immigration, Daily News, News Commentary, Talk, Labour, Reform Uk, Government, Speech Radio

4.3763 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

John Bercow has stepped down and Parliament has been prorogued. We speak to barrister Bobby Friedman to find out what the legal situation is between now and the 14th of October. Conservative MP Victoria Prentis joins us to explain what the MPs Against No Deal group is about. And Dr Mike Smith tells us about Britain's dependency on prescription drugs.

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0:00.0

Across the UK, online and on DAB,

0:04.6

the Independent Republic of Mike Graham on talk radio.

0:08.4

More blasted rhetoric from the Banana Republic,

0:12.0

for people who think capital punishment isn't going nearly far enough.

0:16.6

Dangerous mid-morning debate with the great dictator.

0:19.8

The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

0:42.5

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

0:47.1

We have vacated the premises down on College Green because Parliament is effectively no more.

0:51.8

It was shut down last night by a very reluctant John Burko and a gaggle of opposition MPs who were singing, brawling and jeering like a gang of drunken sailors on a night out.

0:56.6

Out of all the bizarre happenings caused by Brexit over the last three years, yesterday in Parliament,

1:01.1

has to be possibly the most ridiculous of all.

1:03.8

An emergency debate on stopping a no-deal Brexit, which was kicked off with a 90-minute love-in with the speaker who had just announced he was leaving the job.

1:11.4

A ridiculous speech by Ramona-in-chief Dominic Grebe in which he demanded to see all the private

1:16.2

messages on every phone owned by any member of the government and their special advisors.

1:21.2

Even more ridiculous was it was such an important emergency debate, but for most of the afternoon,

1:25.8

the whole chamber was practically empty.

1:28.2

A ludicrous scene then occurred as the House of Commons prepared to shut down when Labour MPs

1:33.3

attempted to stop Speaker Burko from standing up, believing that if he remained seated,

1:38.3

the Parliament could not be suspended. Lloyd Russell Moyle, a bloke who's known in this part of the

1:43.4

world for getting himself into trouble inside the chamber before,

1:47.0

he threw himself on the speaker while Caroline Lucas careened off into the green benches.

1:51.0

As a scuffle ensued, it was possibly the most unedifying spectacle in the long history of modern democracy in this country.

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