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

We have got an awful lot to talk about this morning, ladies and gentlemen.

The migrant crisis continues.

We'll give you all the updates that you're going to need all the way through this week.

There have been arguments in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords about the migrant bill and we've been told about the empty rooms that have been booked by the Home Office

just in case there are more people coming. Well, let me tell you this.

Don't mind about just in case there are more people coming. There's already more people here

than there were last year coming over on the small boats. Ben Habib is here. We're going to be

talking to him about all of that. We'll also talk about the astonishing weather in the continents of Europe, except it's not that astonishing because it is in fact summer.

I'm going to be an awful lot of messages from people in Spain in Italy and points east of there,

saying, yeah, of course it's hot here, that's why we go here in the summer, because we like it like that.

The idea that the BBC and also the kind of

Met Office are all warning that you're all going to die if you go to Europe. It's absolutely

utterly the most ridiculous thing ever. Also, we're going to talk about Sick Note Britain.

Believe it or not, there is now 15.7 billion pounds being spent on looking after people

who claim that they're too sick to work. Are they having a laugh?

What's wrong with them? Oh, mental health issues. Of course, yeah. Yeah, you can't argue with that really.

It's the new bad back, isn't it? I've got a bad back. How do you know? Well, I can't walk properly?

Well, can we measure that? Can we see whether you've got a bad back? No, you can't. What about mental health? Can we deal with that in some way, shape, poor? Can you give you a test? No, can't do that because that would be against the rules. If I tell you I've got mental health problems, you have to leave me alone. You have to let me just go away and give me some free money for the rest of my life. Mental health problems. We've all got them. Some people actually overcome them. We go to work because we like to. Some people don't bother.

We'll bring you more on that, of course, as we go.

Also, we'll be talking about the rest of what is in the news this morning.

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