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Talk Breakfast

Scottish Measures, Northern Restrictions and Voices

Talk Breakfast

Ricky Freelove

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4.3763 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Neil Oliver joins Mike to discuss yesterday's new Scottish measures. Director of policy at North East England Chamber of Commerce, Johnathan Walker speaks about Northern lockdowns. Lewis MacLeod joins Mike. Finally, Councillor Judith Blake highlights Leeds lockdown and the uncertainty surrounding the regulations.

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0:00.0

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

0:13.5

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

0:21.5

It's time to shut up shop. It's time to close the shutters. It's time to chuck everybody out.

0:26.0

And it's definitely time to stop enjoying yourself. Why? Because your masters have said so.

0:30.3

Because you've all been so irresponsible that we haven't been able to stop the spread of a virus that nobody else has been able to stop either.

0:36.5

So there, just go home

0:37.9

and don't come back out again, please. The national diseases of fear, loathing and outright

0:42.1

dictatorship have firmly taken a grip of those highly paid politicians north of the border. Yesterday,

0:47.4

the leader of the SNP, Scotland's First Minister, Nicholas Sturgeon, pronounced that all pubs and

0:51.8

restaurants will be prohibited from selling alcohol starting tomorrow because Scotland's people can't be trusted to take part in their national

0:58.3

pastime without being reckless, dangerous and downright terrifying.

1:02.2

Now anyone who's been in a Glasgow bar after 11pm knows that to be true.

1:05.9

It's all part of the charm, isn't it?

1:07.5

And now it looks like Boris Johnson would do the same for parts of the north of England today or tomorrow. Last night, Scotland was up in arms. And this morning, we'll speak to a historian

1:15.4

Neil Oliver, who was so incandescent with rage yesterday that he said, I have to come back on. I've

1:21.0

got to talk about it. Businessman Donald McLeod is going to join us as well. It is fair to say that in the parlance of Glaswegians, they are absolutely regent.

1:30.2

03444-49-1,000. Coming up later on,

1:33.3

we got Donald's brother Lewis from spitting him.

1:35.3

He has been his first week on the new series. He hasn't had much to make fun of,

1:38.3

has he? There's only been Donald Trump going into hospital, coming out of hospital,

1:41.5

the vice presidential debate. Of course, there's been plenty going on

1:45.2

here on the home front as well. Helen Dale joins us too. The author and lawyer will talk Brexit,

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