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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.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, it has come down to this as if those of us

who knew why we had to leave the european union would not one day see this coming as if we did not

warn of the authoritarian nature of european union rule as if we didn't tell you so well now ladies

and gentlemen it is very clear what is actually going on out there the mask has well and truly slipped and the fangs have now been exposed.

Rather like that scene from Alien, I was just describing to Julia Hartley Brewer.

You know the one where Sigourney Weaver's standing there in that huge, horrible kind of gaping jaw opens.

And the teeth they're about to envelop her entire head.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the European Union, right?

We know the wolf has now cast off its sheep's clothing,

and what is standing before us is a pretty unedifying sight.

Who knew that the unelected bureaucrats of the EU

would put their own demagoguery before the lives of its own people?

Who could have predicted that a former Cypriot psychologist

now grandly referred to as the EU's Health Commissioner would threaten Britain with a block on

receiving vaccine doses to save lives just because their own arrangements have proved to be so

completely and utterly useless? Make no mistake, the reason the EU is in trouble and lagging way

behind the UK

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