This is Talk Radio across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham, on Talk Radio.

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio. It is of course the home of common sense. There's the only place to be to find out

what is really going on and to ask the right questions of all the right people to get all

the right answers because right now we've got a lot of questions and we need a lot of answers

and we need to know exactly where we are going, when we're going to get there, who are we going to take with us,

and who we're going to leave behind? Quite frankly, all of these questions need answering, they need answering today.

It's a brand new week, a brand new day, we're in a brand new month, right?

But, ladies and gentlemen, we are entering what I would call a new political era and I'll tell you why this is the one where the most popular party in

the country has decided to abandon its core voters in order to curry favour

with behavioural scientists people who run polls ripping up its manifesto promises

despite protests from ever-increasing senior members of the parliamentary group

and to continually introduce policies, it previously said

it wouldn't do. I'll give you Boris Johnson and the tainted Tories, ladies and gentlemen, because

far from pressing home their advantage against all opposition, they seem to be steadfastly

heading headlong into the wilderness. On vaccine passports, they now say they will introduce

them despite promising never to do so.

On the vaccination of children, they are confused about who has the right to decide and they

contradict themselves on a daily basis and on raising taxes.

They are deliberately ignoring warnings from inside the cabinet and outside the cabinet

that reversing manifesto policy can only end in tears.

So here's one question for you.

What are conservative voters supposed to do?

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