Who is your Plank Of The Week?

My condolences to Isabel for the loss of her mother.🙏♥️

that's so sad Isabel, very sorry for your loss.

Is Sadiq sent a Plank of the Week certificate each time he is awarded this magnificent token of recognition?

Nice, gentle panel. Mike great value as always. Read a v good article on Mike in The Spectator couple of weeks ago. Im proud to be one of his legions of fans.

You can't possibly vote Sad IQ Khan as plank of the week, he already has the award of plank of the YEAR!

I'm thinking of emigrating to Rwanda as it's probably much safer than large parts of this country.

State Pension based on contributions is regarded as a benefit and therefore all pensioner bank accounts could be checked by the state. I find this truly horrific and a step too far. State pensions are based on your tax contributions and should not be regarded as a benefit. Will the State start means-testing state pensions? So those who contribute all their working lives may lose their entitlement!!

My favourite pod of the week. Thank you Mike. It’s been a long time, Ozzie.

VOTE REFORM UK 😀

I used the paddington line for years travelling to Ledbury and it was diabolical load’s of delays. The costs are ridiculous, other countries like France and Italy have fast efficient trains and the costs to use the service are very reasonable

Great program.Very enjoyable

I remember the outrage when the local Pub put a condom machine in the Ladies toilet! And that was in the 80s!😂

Can we have Mike Graham back in the morning with real time debate ..

Tax payers paying £175 million pounds a MONTH for train companies?? that's f*****g insane !!

Judging by the end perhaps the plank of the week award should go to the plank.

What we as a family found out about the doctors that really stuck in our throat was their sheer arrogance and refusal to even look into new treatments for A situation they have never come across! but were prepared to take us to court so they could continue their barbaric treatment on our child! What we advocated is now the standard practice in most hospitals!

why does Khan gets voted to be Mayor because there is 1.1million muslims in London.

DWP will have the powers to look into anybodys account who receives any payment from them. Child maintenance, pension ect. This will lead to means tested payments for all.

The Mayor of London is Plank of the Year and the plank should be recycled into a more useful product

We should all have a vote who is Mayor of London, it’s our capital especially since a lot of our taxes are spent in London !

When I lived in london in the early 70 s there was no such thing as trains cancelled or strikes. British rail owned them😮😢

You could pay train drivers £100k a year and the service would still be rubbish….😤 it’s a work ethic issue that has been packaged as class war … 😣

The mayor, council & councillors that voted to stop the Lincoln Christmas festival, used taxpayers money to goto a Christmas festival in Germany the following week,at the town Lincoln is twinned with. So they also threatened local shops and businesses if they tried to set up stalls they would be fined and done for it. The covid inquiry is a total waste of money and time. It will never get to the bottom of anything or solve anything. It’s a case of playing the blame game, but no one will get the blame in the end. The only inquiry for covid is how did the virus get out of China, why was it being made in the first place and who was responsible for funding it, and how much compensation is china going to pay for it. Government can learn from the lockdowns, it should learn from what happened and how it happened. An put in place a system in case something happens like that again. So a plan of action is in place for the future. The biggest mistakes, were from the nhs closing hospitals down, so departments built up major back logs, retirement homes going over the top and stopping access, businesses could have a restricted service. The uk could have still functioned on a limited basis, instead of locking everyone down. It’s clear that the science was not followed and uneducated mps let power got their heads. Khan blames every one apart from himself on everything. The reason he win two elections was because the first one the two biggest boroughs couldn’t vote and the sent ballots for each borough to the wrong locations. The second khan broke election rules, by claiming things he never did and postal voting which was not vetted correctly and needs to be stopped asap. As how can you have immigrants and foreigners that don’t speak English or read English voting when someone else is filling out the forms? These two elections were apparently being investigated, but nothing seems to come of these investigations and are still on going.

To solve the migration problem stop the boats and return them to France because they are allowing the trade in sending people to sail across the Channel.

Why am I not surprised that the threat of strikes is happening in the UK. Am waiting to hear that the postal workers are considering the same thing.

I keep asking this question no one seems to know the answer. Why do we not take the boat people straight back to where they came from FRANCE?

Friday night ❗️plank of the week❗️ I'm in the USA, and LMAO at this show.

If we can have self driving cars self driving trains would be easy to introduce. Sack the drivers, automate the system and trains would run on time.

Sixty thousand grand!!!!!! Those drivers are well paid.

Love Mike G

Out of curiosity, the left of the Labour Party support renationization of the railways. How does this resonate with the drivers? Seems they are doing OK with privatisation.

I was so uncomfortable as a white person in Pakistan, it badly affected my mental health because the population was 99% Pakistani

Maybe Boris could stand for mayor again. He was stitched up and i think the public know it. The civil service organised the parties and yet boris got the blame.

I remember JHB at 6.30, Mike at 10....happy days. Now ive got to suffer the awful Nicola Thorp

Who had the right to cancel the Lincoln Christmas …This is madness…What has happened to English people ? Could it be they are not English anymore that are making these decisions…This country is in a real mess….

I have received state benefits in this country, and I looked into the wording of this. The legislation requires the banks to check if you have £16,000 or more in your account, at the time you receive their payments. I am a militant privacy advocate, but even I have no problem with this! This really is a case, if you do nothing wrong you have nothing to hide! The problem could be that the legislation is strengthened later by a future government, but as it is, check away... carry on!

"It's all about emotion and feeling rather than facts." - that could summarise pretty concisely the problem at the heart of so much of Britain's woes at the moment.

The bank accounts of the Governments mates should have been checked for the fraudulent claims by them during lockdowns!🤬

Would be cheaper to gift 50,000 pounds to every refugee to get them to leave - Rwanda will cost upwards of 160,000 pounds per person.

Take your party off to Mr Mike Graham 🎉👍

In all fairness, of all the times I've had trains cancelled on me, 999 times out of 1000 they've said sorry.

Would Nihal be happy if some of his white colleagues wore black face?! LOL

He's the plank of every week.

Knife welders are young, anything else they have in common I wonder?

Respect for lawyer's has hit rock bottom, they appear to be more like a game show for gotcha moments, never thinking about what he was doing like keeping the people's spirit up. Rather Boris than Starmer or Nicholas Sturgeon, who wanted lockdown to go on forever with all the damage it has caused.

Train drivers working from home. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

Train drivers completely overpaid for their jobs. When nurses are being paid half their salary. They say they have a lot of responsibility so do nurses.

Has everyone gone mad? 😱

These wallies want everyone out of cars, yet offer possibly the worst rail service. I feel for people who pay season tickets for this guff. I would be spitting feathers if I'd outlaid hard earned

Khan looks like a green gremlin on that interview.😂😂 Or a Dijin as the followers of Mohamed think. Khan the dijin😂😂

We need driverless trains especially on the underground.

What you talking about that guy has always been a pure plank he needs to go apply for an ather job as he is st at been a mayor go go go keep going

i want to look at sunaks bank account and Hancocks /johnsons infact every politician

The cushiest public service job is a London tube train driver. They can earn up to £1500 a week with overtime. It's a job that a CROW could do !! The crow has an IQ of a 71/2 year old child. Put a pouch of bird seed in the drivers cabin. The crow could be taught in around an hour to pull a a single lever up and down. A tube train could and should be fully automatic,

What does an Aslef train driver earn? Reed says: “Train drivers can expect to begin with an average starting salary of £30,000, with the highest with overtime salaries often exceeding £65,000. “Train driver salaries can also differ between commercial or freight roles and the unsociable hours they work . The average freight train driver salary in the UK is £44,418. Mike has all the wonderful, uncollaborated anecdotes, with a willing panel to add humour to his stories as Talk tv is Murdock owned, he who pays the piper calls the tune,

If someone dies after the qualifying date their estate still gets the money, that is bonkers. If someone living on their own dies it should be possible for the money to be stopped after all the DWP stops the DSS Pension immediately so why not the Winter Fuel Allowance?

So many of those put forward are worthy of the accolade. Maybe there should plank splinters awarded for 2nd. and 3rd.

Khan. Plank of the Year!

Where has Isabel gone?

I get the winter fuel payment. It goes straight on coal. Yes!

Obviously totally fallen in love with Isobel ❤

Good one.

Men don't have periods.

Khan is plank of every week

Labour's connection with the colour red is becoming very tenuous indeed. They appear devoid of any core electorate.

Re. The BBC: that sounds like racism!

Train drivers go in straight lines, no roundabouts or bus lanes or cyclists to worry about. We have had the technology to replace them for over sixty years. Any child can run a trainset.....

Tampons for men? Bloody hell I've heard it all now. 😅

I got fed up with the train strikes so bought an EV. Now I drive to central London from Croydon for 50p return plus parking on the street you only pay the first 10 minutes of every four hours or 96p twice. The train ticket is £13.90 and that's if it's running. My EV has 280 miles of real range but a cheap old EV would be enough as the distance from Croydon to Central London is only 12 miles. Being an EV you don't pay any ULEZ or congestion charge either.

Old age pension is now called a benefit! So can access ur account

I work for a council. No one pays my heating. What’s that comment about?

Google train drivers salaries against European equivalents. You will be gob smacked at how high we pay our drivers.

Boris ...last thing I saw on him was he was reading on the motions of 'COWS' ...true ...em ....Like bonkers Boris ...but not in power over anything! London's Court Jester! perfect role.

Why don't they sack them all , there's loads of people would like to do a semi skilled job for that money including myself , can't be that hard i'm an HGV driver , i would do it for £50 grande .

Khan gets elected because of the simple fact that the Demographic makeup of the electorate has changed out of all recognition! London has become a magnet for a large number of immigrant voters , particularly from a certain ethnicity and religion who regardless of political affiliation will continue giving him their vote because he’s one of them! That’s his core base, and with the fact that their numbers will only increase over time, he believes that he’s on safe ground! A situation that ironically, illustrates perfectly, what will most likely, eventually be the fate of the whole of the UK and other parts of Europe within a few generations time! Unfortunately Pandoras box has irresponsibly been opened, and it’s going to be an extremely difficult task to get the lid back on!

Rather than letting her mother die why didn't Isabel Oakeshott pay for her mother to go to a private hospital-----I am damn sure that she could afford it!

No one could tell us what COVID would do but people just want to blame someone I’m sick of it , I’m sorry for those who suffered but it happens get on with your lives for god sake

Reply to a yes/no question - at 13:48. In this language, "The point is...", which roughly translates as "yes".

Didn’t think socialism believes in Christmas

It seems there is no accountability in parliament so presumably there is no accountability on the streets.

Ah Mike Graham… I remember him on the radio prime time morning slot, before he was moved to the graveyard evening slot. I suspect the recent reshuffle has resulted in less listening- it has for me.

If made enough seats n only have 1 1stclass carriage n if no seat 75% discount n if reserved a seat n don't turn up 2 strikes no more bookings

What happened to Isabel ?

the train companies should just train more drivers, the reason people get paid so much is because there is a shortage of that skill, or bite the bullet take on the govt and unions and bring in driverless trains

Re: Sadiq Kahn. Be warned. His predecessor ended up as Prime Minister.

Sad-iQ-Khan

When will these men who menstruate realise that it’s not a period it’s piles

This rule about partners / spouses not being able to automatically come or being easy to bring them into the country and having harsh conditions ….. try being the spouse of an Australian. Almost impossible to EVER return home with your foreign spouse, AND VERY EXPENSIVE to do it, The new UK law itself isn’t much different to many other nations, not saying it’s right but probably necessary for Britain right now.

Don’t they know if you stop them they will just keep coming by the boats 🤬

Its never tough its always Khan

Sadik again. English Londoners, how does it feel that you'll never have English mayor ever again?

Is isobel ok?

Isabella Isabella 😍

Is Boris wearing a wig? His hair seems thicker on the scalp and uniformly thick and less flyaway all round.

More like plank of the year.

Graham has got to learn to stop shouting YES! every 30 seconds.

Americans have congress,who do people spread hate answer too ,we don’t seem to have a system in place

Too many people turned up to a Christmas event so it is cancelled for safety. Is the same principal to be applied to all religions?

What is it with privileged middle class women like these two who genuinely believe they can do other peoples jobs, men’s in particular? I’m fed up of the train strike too, but the nerve of a GP, who are endlessly mocked for complaining about over worked and underpaid, when they earn £92 grand a year and can’t even be arsed to meet patients one on one anymore, and never work weekends. Isabella’s raked it in writing a book and gets paid more per hour than every train driver for giving her opinions, whilst sat in nice warm studios. They are deluded