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🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio. |
0:28.3 | We have reached the end of yet another momentous week in the Independent Republic, ladies and gentlemen, |
0:32.7 | and there has been plenty to debate. |
0:34.7 | The idiocy of certain politicians over the return to parliament, |
0:37.7 | the madness of crowds and the violence against the police by the Black Lives Matter thugs, |
0:41.8 | the new policy of wearing a mask on public transport, the return to work for thousands of people, |
0:46.9 | and the opening of primary schools after two months. All of that, I kid you not, has happened |
0:51.6 | since Monday. I know it's easy to forget that things move along rather swiftly in the current coronavirus pandemic scenario, |
0:59.1 | but you really sometimes have to take a step back to realize just how much is going on, |
1:03.5 | just how quickly things are happening and just how momentous these times actually are. |
1:07.7 | Yes, people, we are in the summer month of June, and how do we know? |
1:11.5 | It's very cloudy and it's very rainy and it's very windy and it's not very warm. This weekend, there are two |
1:16.2 | more planned protests against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis described yesterday |
1:20.0 | by the head of the police union in Minneapolis as a man with a violent criminal history. He's, of course, |
1:25.4 | getting terribly criticized for speaking the truth because that's what the truth is. And today, of course, getting terribly criticised for speaking the truth, |
1:28.2 | because that's what the truth is. And today, there is yet another planned event in Trafalgar Square. |
1:32.8 | Meanwhile, all we hear from the office of the Mayor Sadiq Khan is how we must all follow the rules, |
1:37.3 | wear masks and act with caution. Great, isn't it? How exactly do those instructions fit in |
1:42.1 | with what we saw this week both on Sunday and on |
1:45.4 | Wednesday as far as these demonstrations are concerned. Tell us what your plans are, |
1:50.1 | tell us what you're seeing and tell us what you're hearing as well. 344-491,000. |
1:55.0 | Coming up, Brendan O'Neill joins us with his take on those protesters were ruling around London |
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