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Welcome back to the Independent Republican Mike Graham right here on Talk TV.

It is a Friday.

There is a rail strike going on, of course. So, of course, everybody's having trouble getting around.

But I think most people

are so used to it now. They don't even bother marking down the day when there's a strike on.

There was a strike on yesterday, but I don't know what it was. There was a strike the day before.

That was definitely a rail strike. There's all strikes going on. There was that big day of action,

wasn't there, when 500,000 people supposedly took to the streets to determine why this Tory government doesn't want

to give them any more money. I don't think anybody cares anymore, do they? Maybe you do. Let me know.

0344-49-1,000. Let's see what Rishi Soonak said to Pierce Morgan last night about the nurses

and the dispute that they're in and whether he is ever going to give them any more money.

Look, I would love, right? I would love to give the nurses a massive pay rise.

Who wouldn't? Certainly would make my life easier, wouldn't it? Right. Of course I would love to do that if I could.

Give them on them.

So why is that tough? Right? Why is it tough? It's about choices.

So right now, there's a record amount of money going into the NHS, record amount.

And in spite of those difficult decisions that we had to make to stabilise the economy,

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