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. So here we are then.

We have reached the point of no return, it would seem.

All schools are closing tomorrow.

The transport networks are shutting down even as we speak.

Spain will close every hotel and has urged tourists to go home.

There is no more horse racing.

The Canadians have shut their border with the United States of America.

And London is preparing to go on a 24-hour

lockdown. We will be continually broadcasting from the headquarters of Talk Radio here at News

UK on London Bridge for as long as we possibly can. I've already given up travelling on public

transport. I've already started coming in by car. I've already started parking my car in a rather expensive NCP car park

for which I will be reclaiming my expenses. However, it would be nice if Sadiq Khan actually pulled

his finger out of his backside and decided to actually cut down on the congestion charge. It might be

nice as well if you gave your thoughts all of those people driving around in

black cabs to see what they're going to be doing. Because today, we are going to be asking

what exactly is going on? How are people supposed to access the money the government has promised

to pay them? What are taxi drivers supposed to do to reclaim any lost revenue? I don't just mean

black cab drivers in London. I mean taxi drivers all over the country.

Many of you got in touch with me over the course of the last 12 hours or so to say to me that your

businesses are literally falling apart. How exactly are bars and restaurants meant to cope

without any customers? And it's all very well for Rishi Sunak to get up in the House of Commons

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