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Ricky Freelove

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Columnist at The Telegraph Madeline Grant kicks off today's show by delving into the morning's top headlines as the number of civil servants earning more than £100,000 a year has nearly doubled, as new data suggest that Whitehall has been using a loophole to get around pay freezes. Executive Director of the Henry Jackson Society Alan Mendoza joins shortly after to discuss More than 40million voters may have had their data stolen in the biggest data breach in UK history. The Electoral Commission revealed yesterday that 'hostile actors' had access to its systems for 14 months without being detected. Senior Fellow at The New Culture Forum Rafe Heydel-Mankoo returns to The Independent Republic to discuss the ongoing migrant crisis as a Syrian asylum seeker has said living on the Bibby Stockholm barge would remind him of hiding from ISIS. On Monday, 15 people spent their first night on the vessel, docked in Portland Port, but 20 refused to board due to a 'severe fear of water', according to their lawyers. Bar Owner and Restaurateur Clinton Pugh joins shortly after to discuss his ongoing war with low traffic neighbourhoods, and The Telegraph's Annabel Denham closes the show with her weekly takedown of the top headlines of the morning. All that and so much more, so tune in!

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0:00.0	On the app, on your smart speaker, talk radio and talk TV.
0:04.8	Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk TV.
0:09.0	There's lots to do today. We are midway through the week and we're midway through the beginning of August.
0:13.5	It's a bit nicer today. The sun is at least out. There's hardly any clouds in the sky and it's not actually raining or windy.
0:20.0	So you might say it's a relatively
0:22.0	cool and calm summer's day. So I expect all of you to be relatively cool and calm. But of course
0:26.6	you won't be because there's so much to get you all worked up. For example, to wit, all the extra
0:31.7	civil servants who are all making more than £100,000 a year, 100,000 more of them since
0:37.0	2016.
0:38.1	Unbelievable.
0:39.1	What are they all doing?
0:40.2	Why is it that nothing works
0:41.2	if they're all actually employed
0:42.4	to do things within government departments?
0:45.0	Government departments must be the most inefficient places on earth.
0:48.1	To wit, I give you the Home Office,
0:49.7	the place that cannot seem to do anything
0:51.8	with asylum seeker applications
0:53.4	unless they do one a week for the rest of time.
0:57.0	We've got 170,000 people waiting for an asylum claim to be processed and apparently that can't happen because there's not enough of them.
1:05.0	But if you believe that, I've got some Swampland in Florida to sell you.
1:07.0	We've also had some kind of mad data breach. The Russians have now got the details of everybody who's ever voted in any election because they've got their hands
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