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Welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham.

Oh, wait a minute. He's not here.

Oh, sorry, this is the dependent vassal state of Kevin O'Sullivan.

Mike's still enjoying a well-deserved week off.

He'll be back with you all on Monday.

And back with me, I'm looking forward to seeing him again when we do Mike and

Keeb, Monday morning 9.30. It's been great fun with Alex Phillips. Tomorrow, it's JJ and a C-O-B.

But the real deal returns on Monday. Me and Mike and Michael will be back doing this show and all

the other shows that he does as well. Now, coming up in the next three thrilling hours, it's going to be a hectic show.

We've got lots of big breaking news, lots of topical debate to come.

We're going to talk about, of course, Rishi Sunak's extraordinary green user.

And as I keep saying, you know, slowly but surely the Dumbo's at Westminster is finally

realizing that taxing us to the hill, charging us lots of money, making us poorer and colder,

all in the name of something called Carbon Net Zero, that no one really understands what it is,

and we're never going to get to it anyway. It's not popular, it's not a vote winner.

So he did this screeching U-turn yesterday, made a speech in which he implied the government hasn't been honest about any of this.

Of course they haven't been honest.

And finally conceded that actually doesn't really matter what we do because we only produce in Britain here less

than 1% of the world's carbon emissions. Meanwhile over in China spewing out 28%, 1,100 coal fuel power

stations, 300 more being built. Why do we have to sacrifice our lives on the altar of something that China is doing

absolutely nothing about? It's just laughing at us. So slowly but surely the Westminster

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