Talk Radio 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. It is of course the home of common sense and this morning we will be searching far and

wide for as much of it as possible. In these trying times it is often supplied by you when you

let us know what you know and what you're seeing out there. We're still hearing tales of

queues for petrol stations,

but surely that will come to an end soon.

The Eco Warriors are out in force.

Somebody's dumped three tons of mushroom compost

all over Jeremy Clarkson's nice new range rover,

which is a pretty disgusting thing to do.

We'll be talking about that.

Now, of course, they're softening us up for a rocky Christmas

and a breakdown in the entire

supply chain, not just of food, not just of petrol, but of absolutely everything. How much more

of this are we supposed to be taking? Apparently it's all because of a hangover from COVID.

Unions are now saying they need to do away with all the COVID restrictions because those are the

reasons why we can't get

anything done. We can't get anything organised. We can't get anything moved. We can't get anything shifted.

We can't get anything delivered. Really? Is it really that bad? I need to hear from you. This

morning we're checking in with Brendan Chiltern from the Independent Business Network with his take on the week so far.

The demos, the fuel fools, the Labour Party conference, and of course, Sakeer Starmers

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