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Thousands of Prisoners are to be released to make room for the PPE fraudsters and insider traders from the Tory party

Kier Starmer is chairing a meeting of European leaders and desperately trying to avoid saying Brexit, free movement, immigration or Europe for two days

Nigel Fáragë, Liz Truss and Boris Johnson have all rushed to Millwalki to find ways to make money from Donald Trump and his ear apparent JD Vance

Meanwhile President Biden has caught COVID in an attempt to prove he's not a frail old man

In other plague news, Baroness Hallet releases her first COVID Enquiry report criticising the governments' preparedness for a pandemic, the Daily Mail will almost certainly blame Angela Rayner for this

And now, for the Pothole count from Aidan

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And that was the news, from Trumpton.

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Britain is in the middle of a General Election, one that promises big change after a long period of austerity, war and privation the nation is ready for a change. It's June 2024 but Mike takes a look back at the Labour Manifesto from 1945 - the election that created the NHS, Free Secondary Education, Nationalised transport, power and industry, the Welfare State and the United Nations. It's not quite a Wikipedia page this episode, it's the original document and it's contents resonate today as much as they did back then.

Read the original document here:

http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml

Find Mike Reads Wikipedia here:

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