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

It's time to take stock, ladies and gentlemen, just a few short weeks ago, the government was being asked a series of

questions about the rising death rates in care homes, the numbers of people that were becoming

infected with coronavirus, and what the plan was to lift the country out of its economic gloom.

Today, the questions are all about why schools can't be open, whether we should reduce the social distancing measure from two metres down to one, when we can all get a haircut,

whether we should be planning holidays, why on earth pubs can't be open, and why on earth you're

not allowed any longer to watch Gone with the Wind, for heaven's sake? Feels good, doesn't it?

Despite the relentless attempts by the mainstream media to find fault in absolutely everything that the country does, and we are now more concerned with the

removal of statues than we are with the removal of a deadly disease. Let's just take a step back

and wonder how we got here. Yesterday, Sadiq Khan gloated about the removal of a statue of Robert

Milligan, a trader and slave owner from the 18th century, who founded Docks at West India Key in London's East End.

Apparently Tower Hamlet's Council, which has been labour controlled pretty much all the way through since the 60s, suddenly found a statue offensive.

It's strange that, isn't it?

Also, little Britain has been cancelled.

You can't watch that anymore on Eyeplayer.

You can't see Gone with the Wind anymore. I wonder what else they're going to tell us that

we can't see. How about the outlawed Josie Wales, which is of course a very, very good cowboy film

that was made back in the 70s. Meanwhile, in Leeds, a statue of Queen Victoria was

dauged with the words murderer and covered with paint. And a letter sent by a few students to the University of Liverpool

has resulted in the renaming of one of their halls of residents from Gladstone

to something else more appropriate.

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