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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.

We have reached the end of yet another tumultuous week in the big bike world of international relations

and domestic politics. Let's take stop of where we are. There's still a lot of trouble for

Nicholas Sturgeoner up in Scotland after an influential committee has revealed that she did indeed

mislead the Scottish Parliament over the Alex Salmon affair. The big question now is going to be

whether she meant to, whether she knew she was misleading them, because only in the world of politics can you do something that you didn't know you were doing.

For example, can you imagine somebody saying to you, what's going to happen to your car?

I parked it over there.

Did you?

Did you mean to park it over there?

I don't think so.

I'm not sure why I parked it over there.

I don't remember when I parked it over there. I don't remember when I parked it over there and I'm pretty certain that

whenever I did park it over there there was nothing wrong with me doing so. Can you imagine trying

going off a parking ticket saying something like that? Nicholas Sturgis is trying to go off

running the country by making out that she doesn't remember what she did and she doesn't remember why

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