Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republican Mike Graham right here on Talk TV.

Welcome to Wednesday morning. Now in the old days there'd be Prime Minister's questions, but of course

there isn't any Prime Minister's questions. Why? Because summer holidays have ensued. I've always

wondered why Parliament cannot actually sit throughout the summer holidays. I mean, would it be any

problem for people to take a couple of

weeks off, take their family abroad, hop off to Ibitha, go to, I don't know, Farrow, head off to

Budapest, you know, have a Vienna holiday, go to the Philippines, go to Maui, if you wish,

all sorts of places where you could go on holiday, and yet the business of Parliament could

still go on. There will be people who will say, well, the thing is, you know, there are still people working inside their parliament and inside the Palace of Westminster,

and of course lots of MPs are doing lots of very important work in their constituencies.

Yes, yes, yes, I know all that. But why can't we still keep having proper debates in parliament proper time for people to have you know

individual bills discussed possibilities of policy being discussed i mean we're in the midst of all

kinds of problems at the moment we've got an inflation crisis we've got a wage spiraling crisis

we've got a migrant crisis we've got all sorts of other crises in the NHS, and the railway workers are still on strike.

You know, things are not going particularly well, and yet everybody's gone on holiday.

The roads are a little bit quieter, which is one good thing, but to be honest, is it any wonder why Britain is kind of grinding to a halt and nobody

can get anything done?

I hear story after story after story of people telling me, well, I tried to do this, but then

nobody answered the phone, so I just gave up.

That is pretty much the parable of modern Britain.

We'll talk about that throughout the course of the show.

We'll talk about Russian spies.

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