Shall we pull a sickie?
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Mike Graham is back and he's back with a Bang.
Conservative MP joins Mike to discuss the rules for refugees and what you claim to be to get asylum in the country looking ahead to Suella Braverman's Speech.
Leon Emirali is in to kick off the show covering why HS2 seems to have its journey cut for only ... Birmingham, how Sunak's Net Zero delay did in fact win in his favor, plus how many more workers are taking an average of 7.8 days off work...for sickness and so much more.
Sir John Redwood pops by to tell Mike how the Bank Of England could be using your hard-earned taxes to cover their losses. Tony Long is in to chat about the armed officers in London, why they protested for their college, and what that means for future police officers.
Finally Certified member of the Independent Republic, Travel Correspondent, Simon Calder joins Mike to give an update about why Gatwick Airport seems to be canceling flights over covid... yes you read correctly.
All of that and so much more, only on The Independent Republic of Mike Graham!
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham. It is good to be back. |
| 0:05.8 | Thanks for watching the last half hour with myself and Kevin O'Sullivan. Now we are into the meaty three-hour show that comes to you every day during the week from Monday to Friday, 10 o'clock to 1 o'clock. |
| 0:17.4 | It's your window on the world. And it's not just my world, it's your world as well, |
| 0:21.3 | because we talk about the things that you care about. And this morning, the big story is, of course, |
| 0:25.6 | Suella Braberman saying that this country is in danger of opening up its borders to let in, wait for it, |
| 0:31.9 | 780 million refugees. Now, she was wildly mocked when she said this in parliament. She made a speech |
| 0:39.0 | before this one she's going to make in America later on today, in which she warned that basically |
| 0:43.9 | the guidelines now, if you follow the charters, if you follow the international laws, if you follow |
| 0:48.6 | the refugee convention, if you follow the European Convention on Human Rights, basically |
| 0:52.5 | says that anybody can come here as long as they've got a good enough reason. |
| 0:56.1 | But the trouble is, a good enough reason only really means if you can convince a home |
| 1:00.6 | office person who's going to be interviewing you, who is very sympathetic to you in the |
| 1:04.5 | first place, that you are likely to suffer from some form of persecution or some form of |
| 1:08.5 | torture or some form of, you know, just general nastiness, |
| 1:12.8 | you can come to Britain and live here for the rest of your life. Well, I'm sorry, matey. It doesn't |
| 1:17.3 | work like that. Britain, as we've said many times on this show, is full up. We haven't got any more room. |
| 1:22.5 | We don't want any more dinghies. We don't want any more thousands of people taking over thousands more hotels so that they can live there for the rest of time on the British taxpayer. |
| 1:30.3 | Seven to ten million pounds a day. |
| 1:32.3 | We're now spending on this kind of malarkey, and it is malarkey, I kid you not. |
| 1:36.3 | And it's got nothing to do with xenophobia. It's got nothing to do with racism. |
| 1:39.3 | I don't care where people are coming from. |
| 1:41.3 | If they're coming here illegally, they shouldn't be coming here at all. |
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