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

Radio and we have reached the end ladies and gentlemen of yet another amazing week in the

unpredictable world of coronavirus land where nothing is as it seems where nothing actually

means what it says and where with every step forward we appear to be taking a couple of

steps back. This morning we are wont to the news that France has now been added to the list of

countries on the naughty list and from which you must now quarantine for two weeks after going

on holiday there. Unfortunately for half a million Brits there is now a mad scramble to get back

across the channel before the deadline of 4 a.m. tomorrow morning. Of course, there's no such

restrictions on those coming here illegally on migrant boats funded by organised crime. They'll be

fine. Don't worry about that. No quarantine, no COVID testing, just a warm welcome, a coach

trip to a four-star hotel and three square meals a day for the rest of time. Marvelous, isn't it?

Absolutely fantastic. First up this morning, we're talking to former Tory MP Stuart Jackson, who's the former chair also of the All-Party Albania group,

and he's going to be telling us about how many so-called asylum seekers from that part of the

world end up working in the lucrative drug trade in this country. You know what to do. The number of course, the call is this. 0344-49-1,000. Coming up a little bit later on, Georgie Frost joins us live from Spain with the latest news on the holiday front. What your rights are if you've had to cut your holiday short in France and whether you can cancel your plans to go there at the last minute. And we'll be taking a look at the further easing of the lockdown this weekend with Alex Phillips, former Brexit Party MEP. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants people to get back to more

of the things they have missed. So it's weddings, casinos and bowling alleys all over again.

Plus you can go and get a spa treatment as well if you want, but you can't really go on

holiday, can you? No, there's lots of things you still can't really do. And also,

cheeky, idiotic statement of the week has to go to Sadiq Khan. He decided to wander about in

London yesterday and say, the government needs to do more to bring London back. This is the same

guy that put the congestion charge back on, the same guy that put the congestion charge up to

15 quid, and the same guy that then

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