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Morning Glory with Mike Graham

White Privilege, 5 Year Brexit Anniversary & The Future Of Mass Gatherings

Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Matt Hall

News, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4741 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Matt Vickers Conservative MP for Stockton South kicks off the show with a call for tougher sentencing for pet thieves as cases grow, along with a further discussion on white working-class pupils who have been let down by decades of neglect within the English education system, according to a recent MPs’ report. Belinda De Lucy and Mike celebrate the five year anniversary of the Brexit referendum, Lisa Nand joins shortly after to outline the blueprint for holiday lift off as senior ministers put pressure on Boris Johnson to end amber list restrictions from July 19. Closing the show Isle of Wight Festival organizer John Giddings explains to Mike the struggle that remains to ensure mass gatherings start up in time for the summer months and beyond.

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0:00.0

Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike

0:12.1

Graham on Talk Radio.

0:17.7

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

0:21.3

or radio. There's a lot of positive news out there this morning, ladies and gentlemen, and by

0:24.9

positive news, I don't mean the kind of promises being offered by the government, which

0:29.1

will be broken down the road. No, what I mean is that people are starting to wake up and actually

0:33.6

take action, and people are also starting to get a little peeved, shall we say,

0:41.7

at the idea that there's one rule for them and another rule for us. Because of course,

0:46.9

if you happen to belong to the UEFA members club, you can come to Britain. You don't have to quarantine. You can do whatever you want. You can claim you're in a bubble. You can be fetid,

0:51.7

you can be catered to, you can be pampered, you can be put up in a hotel.

0:56.0

And you don't have to quarantine. You don't have to be given the kind of food that we told you about that was being handed out yesterday to people who have paid 1,700 pounds for the privilege.

1:05.0

Indeed, if you are in UEFA, you can do whatever you want. You can go to Cornwall, a bit like the people people from the G7 but there wasn't quite so many of them although I suppose once you add in all the bodyguards

1:14.6

and all the lackeys and all the diplomats it's probably the same thing but how on

1:19.2

earth can the government of this nation say to us do you know what we might be

1:24.5

able to let you do some stuff in a couple of weeks we might be able to even let you do some stuff on July the 19th.

1:29.3

But you can't do it now. No, no, no. It's far too dangerous to do it now.

1:33.3

Because look, there's another variant. We're calling it Delta Plus. Whatever happens to the Greek alphabet?

1:38.3

I don't know what comes after Delta, but it's certainly not Delta Plus, as I'm concerned. I seem to remember back in the vast mists of time when I used to study ancient Greek,

1:46.9

not for very long, mind you.

1:48.3

There was definitely not a Delta Plus.

1:50.7

There just wasn't, I'm afraid not.

1:52.3

Today there are hundreds of people marching on College Green,

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