Plank Of The Week With Mike Graham | 08-September-23

[@kaybacci1134]

Thank you for an excellent show this week. Last week's panel was very unruly and continually talked over each other, but the members of this week's panel respectfully listened to each other's points of view. Please have these four intelligent thoughtful people again. They made some excellent comments.

[@AngelaHavey]

It's an excellent show. Always look forward to Plank of the Week.

[@zeldagoblin]

I just love Ben. He's so refreshing.

[@malph9216]

This show always puts me in a good mood for the weekend. Back in the day we used to call it 'putting the World to rights'.........probably showing my age saying that.

[@robertmcleod3198]

Nice to see men with ties on for a change -- rare sight these days.

[@keithdanks766]

Laura is 100% right about the weather warnings! Scare tactics once again to get us ingrained with CC.

[@reginahinkle7507]

The topic has nothing to do with climate control. Purely about a potentially dangerous health issue to vulnerable people

[@richardfox6595]

Laura is tuned in to propaganda tactics. Even more than the obviously wrong premise, it was the tactics with the over-dramatic fearmongering that immediately showed me much of the governments' covid approach was fraudulent.

[@patglenholmes7393]

@@reginahinkle7507😊

[@daisyhobbs7500]

Agree. I watch the faces of weather reporters on all channels....I look for the slightest sign of a snigger or a suppressed smile and I say " how can you say all that with a straight face?" I put it down to the naivity of the 'young' as I remember the summer of '76 when the roads melted and STILL we all CARRIED ON.

[@LC_from_MO]

Yep, it’s weird. We had upper 90’s which is not at all unusual. That day the news reported record breaking temperatures. If you look it up, the same day of the year had several years of over 100 temperatures with a high of 115 F, 46 C in 1954. I’m not buying what they’re selling!

[@janethalliburton8539]

Well done Ben! That was a great show all, thank you. Peter B always makes me laugh

[@billhutchinson1785]

Brilliant panel. Make them permanent!

[@lesterbeedell9725]

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with CO2, I’m aiming for the largest carbon footprint ever recorded, it’s a nutrient gas which makes the crops grow much, much faster An erupting volcano produces more CO2 than humans have managed since the beginning of time, we need to have MORE CO2

[@roslynaubrey7766]

Absolutely right. It’s anexcuse to bring in the New World Order!

[@andrewmawdsley3512]

I fully support you in your quest. Good luck.

[@BillyP13]

The next Nobel Prize Winner!

[@Jukilady]

So true, without CO2, crops won’t grow and then we die also, who are these stupid idiots that think they are right about it. They’re wrong and putting us all in danger.

[@simonruddy8265]

Ben gets my polls vote every day of the week, since i strted hearing him on his change to Reform he absolutely talks sense and reason.

[@Kimllg88]

yes hes greatt

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

True, but getting tired of seeing him as a guest on most shows.

[@tlsum9475]

Ben Habib for pm

[@sandfly]

Good lively show and excellent panel.

[@whatsgoingon4815]

I live near Southwold in Suffolk, I was there the other day and there were coach loads of pensioners sitting on the beach enjoying the sun, they decided to throw caution to the wind preferring it to sitting indoors with their curtains drawn which they will be doing for the next 6 months.Its what people have been doing for years before the lunatics took over the asylum and told us all that fresh air and sunshine was dangerous, I absolutely despair with whats going on in this world.

[@badgambler-un5ck]

I agree. The fear-mongering...or better put...the propaganda being used on the people of the UK on a daily basis is actually very worrying. Every weather map now on MSM is a deep dark red subconsciously sending us messages of possible death if we venture out in the sun, its 100% totalitarianism being done by our own government...whats their end game?

[@margueritahancock5472]

Sorry we never had these tempretures inthe UK my neighbour has sun stroke she is a pensioner and all she did was sit in her garden enjoying the sun she was very poorly.

[@whatsgoingon4815]

@@margueritahancock5472 So sunstroke is a new phenomena is it? If you sit in the sun for too long you are likely to get sunstroke and always have been. This summer certainty has not been particularly warm in fact its a typical British summer. Your neighbour will do far more harm to herself by staying inside both physically and mentally, the suns rays taken sensibly are good for you.

[@diondrabutterfly3002]

Love the show! Really nice to see Joanna Lumley as Patsy back on tv again 🫶

[@alisonmcshannon1196]

Great panel, thanks 👍

[@suzanneevans4157]

I watched a group of people in their late seventies/ early eighties playing bowls in 34 degrees heat and they would have laughed at anyone telling them to stop playing and ignored them too 😅

[@Englishrose4708]

I just love this program it’s so entertaining, I watch this on my tablet in Western Australia. The panel was great on this episode.

[@corina6627]

Your show makes me smile ❤

[@WIP532]

That old Buy, Buy, Birmingham advert made me smile. Everyone was white. NOT ALLOWED today! 27:22

[@Kaylee911]

Just wanna say Mike you’re doing a flipping good job x

[@tech10k14]

No. Wrongful arrest won't cost the Woke Police dearly, Peter. It'll cost the tax-payer... and that's the problem.

[@Dus1234]

Great panel on tonights show, can you have the same ones on all the time😊

[@ianwilliam3811]

What Emma T doesn't realise is that no one gives a toss what she thinks.

[@roybarnett1055]

I love Georgie, brains as well as common sense. All your panels are great actually

[@edwardharley9]

She was just great this episode, I agree.

[@2010lrain]

I agree with all of the panel. Net zero is utter madness. Fines and prison sentences for ordinary people who struggle with the cost of living.... makes me so angry 😡. The mp who wants thanks for doing her job, she's got a ruddy cheek when five year olds are being taught about gender when they should be learning the three RRRs

[@margueritahancock5472]

Stop continually slagging net zero Prince William will be in New York next week to give out another million pounds of his own money to these scientists to study net zero for the good of the world it won't happen overnight but it will help our grandchildren great grandchildren and all Mike does is slate it saying it won't work how does he know he is a presenter not a scientist the only thing he knows about the weather is.... its hot....its cold...its raining,...its snowing...give it a rest and give Prince William a bit of praise for what he is doing .... the plank of the week is...🤔Mike

[@lone8869]

I wish Mike would let people speak and stop interrupting them. He just can't help himself. Chill out Mike.

[@badgambler-un5ck]

I think with Mike its his age, he needs to say whats in his mind instantly or he will forget what he was about to say. But yeh I know what you mean, when interviewers interrupt a guest when they are about to reply you never get to hear what the reply was actually going to be as the interviewee stops what they were about to reply with and then adjusts to what the interrupting interviewer has now said, so lol you never get to know what their initial reply wouldve been, yes very annoying!

[@iwasglad122]

Mike, FFS, will you please STOP interrupting Ben Habib when' he's speaking. If you're going to have someone on the panel of his calibre - and let's face it, he should be our next PM - then for God's sake allow him to make his points uninterrupted because we want and NEED to hear what he's bloody well saying!

[@roncarlin3209]

I nominate Mike as the plank of the year for his continual interruptions. Man, it's irritating.

[@colincavendish-jones25]

I love Laura Dodsworth, one of the calmest, most sensible, most humane voices in the public sphere. However, I think she must mean the Pantheon, not the Parthenon, which was built a good deal more than 2,000 years ago out of Pentelic marble. I am all in favour of more marble, alabaster, and limestone being used in the construction of schools.

[@ireneesch8555]

The Thompson woman talking about hypocrisy is too funny for words. I really can't stomach that old biddy.

[@GMN360]

1000 ticks if I could! Heartily agreed.

[@roncarlin3209]

She's looking a bit anorexic.

[@jacquibruce6644]

I'm from Doncaster which used to have an excellent town centre, best market in Yorkshire. It's now desolate, Labour are to blame.

[@personalcheeses8073]

Quite honestly I visited it a couple of weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised, it was bustling

[@badgambler-un5ck]

I always find it very strange when seeing videos of 'up north' and its full of people wearing Turbans or Asian clothes with slippers on and they are walking in & around the old houses and shops and it looks really odd. What I mean is, you have these beautiful architectural buildings and stone used and it just looks weird with you seeing these Asians walking in and out of them and living there, lol, sorry its just a weird thing to see.

[@daisyhobbs7500]

BEN is dead right re common law & EU law. English laws were all we needed at one time...and very happy we were!! Excellent show again this week folks!! Thank you!!

[@pindiddle]

I work in a care home and we had most of the residents outside enjoying the sun and warmth with ice cream at their request. Channel 5 you patronising…………… !

[@lesterbeedell9725]

Diversity literally means separation, division

[@amberkangal]

Excellent panel this week - really enjoyed it :)

[@clovermark39]

Watch out for the energy bill that’s going through govt now.

[@Cromwelldunbar]

Excellent guest team! And here’s hoping poor moggie Otis found his way back home - bless his little cotton socks - to his anxious owner!

[@Kimllg88]

hear hear, Ben Habib

[@valwood1430]

FABULOUS! ♥️ I absolutely love your show! Greetings from Canada!🇨🇦

[@michellemcgarr1709]

I’m 70 behind the gender list because I only know 2 . Male and female 😊

[@robertcook2572]

There are two sexes: male and female. There are three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.

[@beverley6140]

I'm very relieved about that Michelle. There are 2 of us. Yay! 😊

[@valpotter3660]

Love the banter ❤

[@jacquibruce6644]

I think Harry is old news and best forgotten about. So far the lies of climate change win my vote.

[@marycaine8874]

I love Peter's dad dancing.

[@drandrewallan]

Cris (T(Witty) should have been fired when it became obvious how badly the pandemic was handled!

[@ruthcollins2841]

There's talk about aliens & he's one - he rarely blinks!

[@lindavanschalkwyk8175]

Mr Mike Graham your program is excellent. I love the panel participants. Between yourself and them the content os highly entertaining.

[@johnmoncrieff3034]

All film actors are grossly over paid for pretending to be other people, what gives them the right to lecture to us who work hard for far less money doing jobs that have far more meaning than just pretending to be others who may be fictional characters in the first place!

[@mlentz1975]

Hello from America 🇺🇸 Totally enjoy Plank of the Week 🩵 And am absolutely embarrassed by the American on Tik Tok. As a naturalized American citizen originating from an Asian country, I love my new homeland even with its warts. I’d send that shameful example of America packing ASAP! 🤨

[@Cromwelldunbar]

Emma Thompson? I recall many decades back hearing her slanging off England (on a French talk radio programme) as opposed to Scotland, saying people often say to her that she sounded /talked much more ‘pleasant’ than ‘the usual Brit ‘ ie from England, to which she would reassure them that that was because she wasn’t English but Scottish….What absolute conceited snobbish bs I thought at the time! But the biggest farce was her former husband Branach giving her the role of Henry V’s betrothed ! To compare the literally large-skulled big-headed Dame Thompson with the lovely fine-featured sweet voiced lady perfect in her gentle charm - Renée Asherson - chosen for the same role in Olivier’s magnificent version of Henry V would be like comparing a worn out cart-horse with a sleek greyhound

[@roncarlin3209]

I find sleekies disgusting.

[@badgambler-un5ck]

Its a bit like when its St. Patrick's day...all of a sudden EVERYONE is Irish lmao!! Even Joe Biden has more ancestry from Scotland and literally zero from Ireland but hey he is Irish when he needs to be!

[@ThinPicks]

Great panel this week.

[@harrietkinloch7451]

That advert will cause trouble, too white! 🤣

[@johnmoncrieff3034]

All local authorities have changed from being there to serve the people to an officious authoritarian body who think they are in place to rule over the people and introduce terms and conditions the people must conform to or suffer the consequences!

[@roslynaubrey7766]

Yes, I’m 68. We lived in a council house. The council paid for me to go to teacher training college. The council gave out grants if your house was in disrepair.

[@jamesbryden2020]

bimingham council. so it's about balancing the books . and that is why we get loads of road repairs just before april. the day to day stuff is left to the end of the year. that's us

[@AlunThomas-mp5qo]

Is there any accountability and responsibility applied any more? It seems to me that anyone who is in charge of anything can mess up big time and just dismiss it as 'one of those things' or 'these things happen'.

[@criscross572]

Dr Fauci for me for receiving 10s of millions of dollars in royalties from pharmaceutical corporations during covid, oh and funding the gain of function research that lead to covid.

[@roncarlin3209]

Fauci, the beagle torturer.

[@whatsgoingon4815]

If fishermen go net zero how are they going to catch any fish

[@julieclonan2427]

More for the Spanish and the French, We Don't Own Our Country.

[@whatsgoingon4815]

Note I said “ Net” zero. Fisherman, get it.🤣🤣

[@beverley6140]

​​@@whatsgoingon4815 Yep - at least I did real fast 😂

[@Ann-qf5vk]

The thought police... brilliant 👍👍👍👍

[@julieclonan2427]

Emma dear , you flew in first class last visit to The UK and you're Hollyweird Teeth are Taking Over Your Mouth 🇬🇧

[@jonathanbarraclough5917]

Great show and many worthy planks but Keegan just stole the title, no contest.

[@scoppio07]

Regarding the poster for the cat - if you think it's nanny-state now just wait till that Labour lot get in.

[@TH-bp2cl]

Another great show

[@juliemulligan8473]

Great show guys👏👏👏👏

[@reinmansmith]

An excellent panel with all their choices prime contenders for ‘Plank of the week’ along with much sensible discussion which I had given up hoping to hear on MSM 👍

[@elaineb8524]

Wft are they doing spending 34 million pounds on doing up an office when schools are falling down.

[@Edzell-i2i]

Yacht powered by wind? so is my jacksie.

[@benkhan2908]

Gillian Keegan needs to go to school to learn about good manners. She is not fit to be employed in school settings.

[@EP61]

I agree with you. This video will disappear as soon as they see it.

[@Musical_Man_Guitar]

I bet Otis is in Reading.........

[@ruthcollins2841]

🤣🤣🤣 In a lift too?😅😊

[@ThinPicks]

Watching the tide...

[@eh-i1841]

That Bullring advert didn’t have anyone with a Birmingham accent.

[@doriangray8970]

Yes and it was uncomfortably very white.

[@straightenyourcrowntarot7598]

60 quid for 8 monthly garden waste collections in Sheffield. I tried to get tyem to take a sofa but at 80 quid, i decided against it and paid 45 quid to a liscenced man with a van.

[@personalcheeses8073]

You are right about the garden waste collection, which is ridiculous. But you are incorrect about the bulky waste. Veolia do the council waste collection. They remove 1-3 bulky items for £28.50. 4-6 for £48, 7-9 for £67.50 and 10-12 for £85.30. So if you paid some bloke with a van £45, you ripped yourself off and probably chucked it down a hill somewhere

[@straightenyourcrowntarot7598]

@personalcheeses8073 I called them.just yesterday. 2 seater sofa only. Tild £80 by the person at veolia.

[@davehunter9342]

I use 2 garden waste bins to save the planet , both cost the same even when they are make a single trip to empty both

[@straightenyourcrowntarot7598]

@@davehunter9342 daylight robbery

[@straightenyourcrowntarot7598]

@personalcheeses8073 they were licensed. I checked before I ordered the pick up. If I was you, I'd contact them again and pretend you've got a sofa to remove. .

[@jeanettealexander2919]

So they spend ALL the money on these buildings that are old so Have to be upgraded so no money left to do XYAnd Z and people are being sucked into this ,SO they will do it Because we want it ,Meanwhile WHATS going on so this Covers it up?

[@julieclonan2427]

Migrants are costing over 5 Million A Day. That's the official number so triple it .

[@Chris-sg2su]

We've got a government of clowns

[@Ann-qf5vk]

A good dose of plankery 👍👍👍👍

[@robertgough5804]

The anpr cameras were introduced for crime prevention and reduction and have been abducted for use in civil offences⚖️big brother.

[@badgambler-un5ck]

The UK per population is according to some reports the most cameraed up country in the world!! If you were to go out on a full day out somewhere each person gets caught by a different CCTV camera around 70 times. So when full totalitarianism comes in, the UK will be the most restrictive place on Earth!!

[@tlsum9475]

My daughter was born in August, shes 30 now and every August for the past 30yrs has been dodgey! Most of her birthdays it rained

[@edwardharley9]

I suppose there were no knife killings the day the police went to harass the elderly lady. disgrace !! and YOU GO GEORGIE !!! Give them what for and no mistake....

[@denisemoore6134]

We get endless stupid warnings and advice too, in Australia. Its about things anybody would know without being told.

[@C.W.scottishhighlandmama1821]

A lot of the time here in the states, people at traffic circles just kind of hit the gas peddle and hope for the best lol 😆

[@andrewjohnson388]

Love it, tickles my fancy....weather..as a pasty faced Englishman. but not a zombie....Sun .it arrived...pour on me ...and get golden ..cause soon we will be windswept, rained on and become a hermit dark age imp ...in a cave of DOOM ....again!

[@Cromwelldunbar]

And Rishi where is he? Bet he’s somewhere where he isn’t speaking English as he reassures his hosts that Britain’s assistance to help the unemployed over there, and to relieve their unemployed nurses over there - don’t they need them too over there ? Or will it be to increase their hold ´over here’?

[@Roz-y2d]

I don’t mind the alerts. I mind the hot weather. I would love it if it was 20c all year round.

[@ruthcollins2841]

No, 24°c during the day and 12°c at night.😊

[@whatsgoingon4815]

Don’t worry it will soon be cold and dark then you can moan about that.

[@GMN360]

@@ruthcollins2841they are my perfect temps as well. I wouldn’t if it moved to 25 for little variety once in a Blue Moon!

[@davehunter9342]

My wife's relatives come to U.K. For a month each year to escape the heat , said this year best ever.

[@lizwilliams14]

That’s not right. No Sadiq Khan. He’s always a Plank.

[@antoniopalmero4063]

That plank sound seems familiar but I can’t put my finger on it .

[@stevensarson482]

How many failed shopping centers , superstores and warehouses litter our towns and cities? Move the affected schools into these and perhaps rebuild in the style of an IKEA , faster , cheaper, more flexible and probably more durable.

[@altaviaje]

I used to like Emma Thompson.

[@robertcook2572]

More fool you, then

[@eh-i1841]

I’ve never liked her.There’s just something about her.

[@karinmccarthyeliz]

❤

[@andrewjohnson388]

Bobbies ..Police used to have big feet and 6 foot ...now big wastes, five foot nothing and fall over their feet!

[@ruthcollins2841]

Don't know about their toilet outputs, but definitely their waist bands are at breaking point! Bit like the hot air - just don't use a lighter or strike a match!🤣😌

[@andrewjohnson388]

hate to see their toilet pan strength ..good point ...yeh ...not an image I dare to think..they probably have plastic under wear ..if caught short ..after breakfast at pizza r us ..well police could be exploding public toilets ..then covered up ...its all conspiracy!!

[@eb3502]

Has the Orwellian Society/ "1984" arrived in GB? Who is Big Brother? George Orwell is smirking down at us.

[@scoppio07]

Back to everyone off to catch a train - a measly 47 minutes programme.

[@ShowMeCrows]

the guy that lives above me followed me with a hammer wrapped tightly in a sainsabury's bag, holding it over hit shoulder like a pick axe...he then started hitting the road in front of me with it....then followed me back to the flat. He then did a number of other thing, including purposely flooding my entire flat by digging a hole under a pipe and smashing it open under his floor, he then put all his taps on and left the flat. ....Police did nothing! they told me maybe my PTSD is making the situation seem worse and its not illegal to carry a hammer, also have i tried being nice to him like making him feel welcome here.....!. The council said he is going through some issues. So he still lives there. I often worry when i hear his taps. He spits in my direction when he sees me. He was also arrested for making obscene phone calls to the police over and over...but now he's got a job, driving disabled people and other people to travel destinations. He has to do one more bad thing to me before he can be moved out. It has to be a really bad thing too. Spitting is not enough.... and the the Police arrest this woman !!!!!!!! im so fucking angry.

[@Olivia-lu3gg]

Never mind 'France on a Monday' ....... France the entire month of August!

[@robertgannon-cx2mm]

Of this, or any week! Mike Graham!!!

[@chrisstokie2361]

Thanks for ticking the true gender boxes with the panel. 👍

[@lesterbeedell9725]

Their divorce is now on the cards as predicted

[@harrietkinloch7451]

Same happened to Brown!

[@antoniopalmero4063]

Ohhh , ,, it’s a close one this week ain’t it .

[@MegMerrilees]

If Otis had previously identified as transgender they’d called out the army to find it

[@beverley6140]

🤣😆😁 that's really funny !

[@elaineb8524]

Hang on 150 schools is not a joke.

[@nelsonmcduff5218]

Something really needs to be done about police who pester people for "non crime" issues. Enough is enough.

[@agbjorn953]

Now it's not so bad because they've got a roof.

[@Ann-qf5vk]

Omg and I don't normally like acronyms but I'm now worrying about the fish which 20:20 h 20:13 are dying in the fish pond . Did granny get out of handcuffs? Did she save the fishes?

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

I disagree with Ben Habib, although he has a good point about Keegan, it's ITV who are the Planks of the Week for issuing the video in the first place. She asked a question. I want to hear the answer from the appalling interviewer. ITV haven't issued that!

[@phyllisharries2742]

Ben Habib for PM.

[@nothandmade9686]

Like for Yes Minister.

[@Ann-qf5vk]

Love at least they can afford to be socialists. Brilliant thanks 👍👍👍👍😊