Plank Of The Week with Mike Graham | 17-Mar-23 

I see Esther Krakue, I watch. Common sense, intelligence and beauty.

Has Esther got her own show? She should have. Well researched, logical, articulate, doesn’t get over whingey or speak over others and stress the listener out, pleasant, well balanced and knows her stuff

I'm a heterosexual woman but I always call out beauty when I see it, Esther Krakue is beautiful and full of common sense, perfect 👌

As always Renee is a class act and yes we are in 1984

Beautiful Esther is SO SENSIBLE AND INFORMED

Thank you Dr. Renee for speaking up for women!

Love Esther Krakue. I can’t think of a time, when she didn’t make sense, display intelligence and sound very well spoken.

Plank of the Week is a must watch for me - love it

Brilliant as usual

That young lady is great 💜. Her take on our President is spot on 😊

Thanks once again for my weekly fix of fun & common sense. Good team but of course always enjoy when Kevin O'S. is on.

I'd love to bring George Orwell back to life. He'd say "Told you so".

Hilarious from the beginning. Esther nominates the BBC and wow EVERYONE has something to say... Great group this week. Thanks Mike excellent show.

Isn't it time that Esther Krakue was made Prime Minister? I never tire of hearing her common sense. We desperately need people like her in Parliament. Ah well, just wishful thinking...

Esther for prime minister! I agree. She’s amazing.

Stand in solidarity, cancel your TV licence today

Humza met a bunch of Ukraine women living in Scotland. He tried making a joke about the lack of men! Duh does he not realise the men are back at home fighting for their country against the Russian invasion? This makes him a plank

Mike Graham and plank of the week, my absolute favourite programme, its my highlight of the week love love love talk TV xx

Well said Esther!

concerning the lady who has de-transitioned. Surely she was a victim of female genital mutilation, and that is illegal in the USA. There has to come a time when a line is drawn and somebody who is basically experimenting on children is taken to court and jailed. THEN we can have an open and honest chat about this whole sorry charade.

"Britain has a very low birth rate" "Not in my house" 😂

Nothing wrong with the Hugh Grant interview. Just someone being interviewed while not acting like a celebrity.

Hugh Grant actually gave an honest answer to the question. Is he supposed to lie?

I’m loving these two ladies particularly the dark haired lady , I love that she talks sense & hasn’t taken on the work talk that we hear so much of today by the younger generations

Defunding the BBC is in the hands of the licence payers - just stop paying.

Excellent panel this week.

Where are the ethics of the doctors carrying out the surgery.....or mutilation on these children.

As so many have remarked, Esther is superb. She combines intelligence with commonsense, which are rarely to be found together in one individual. A lady who is making a successful career for herself on her own merit alone, and not as a tick box exercise. Oh, and she is also blessed with great beauty, so what a complete package. Lucky her.

Re:Hugh Grant…You did not show the first part where he makes a literary reference to Vanity Fair, the English novel, and the newscaster thought he was referencing Vanity Fair, the American Magazine! Plankers, all!

I’m 67, and I’m sure that if I was a child now, I’d be encouraged to transgender, cause I was what was known as a tomboy back in the day. I love being a woman, mother and grandmother. To me this movement denigrates us women.

I applauded H Grant!

Esther... spot on girl ❤

Pleased to see that this program is maturing. There is a lot more discussion and less interruption. Keep it up. Ps, currently trying to renew my drivers licence so ALL of Wales is my plank of the week!

fave time of the week

A couple of years ago the Labour controlled Senydd in Wales lead by Mark Drakeford idly stood by as a statue of a great British hero Lt-General Thomas Picton was removed from the City Hall in Cardiff as a result of being presurised by the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 which "saw scrutiny of memorials celebrating Picton" intensify. Cardiff council ultimately voting to remove a marble statue of him from its Hall of Heroes at City Hall. Followed by a decision to remove a portrait of him from the Nationl Museum of Wales as part of "Reframing Picton", which is a youth-led initiative involving Amgueddfa Cymru and community partner the Sub Sahara Advisory Panel (SSAP). Seems all these woke tw*ts choose to ignore the fact that General Picton was killed at Waterloo in 1815 defending the world from French Napoleon Tryranny.............................

I agree with Esther re Hugh Grant

Look at Benidorm this week, thousands upon thousands of Brits there many on Pips living a great life, many never worked a day in their lives.

Esther is absolutely stunning and astute. She says things as they are. The BBC has lost its respect and infallibility so time for the license fee to go. Lineker is supposed to be a sports pundit not a politician, so why did they support him. Double woke standards will be the downfall of a once great British institution.

Sorry but she did ask such stupid questions, if she knew he was in that film she would have know he was only in it for a few minutes. She also asked him what was he wearing, which was really obvious that he was wearing a suit.

Sorry, but I can't see what Hugh Grant did anything wrong, I thought he was very funny 😅 absolutely love Plank of the week

You should have seen the devastation in South Africa after the ANC came to power. Every road in the country changed, and all the white statues were removed. Students at university destroyed the libraries and buildings; BLM reached there far earlier that they did here,

Ester love your straight clear principles

I'm so confused, I'm constantly told that because I'm a white Englishman I must racist, but I think I'm in love with Esther K. So conflicted. 😮

Esther Krakue………😍😍

Mike consistently makes the mistake of thinking that Hadrian's Wall is the Scottish Border, thereby consigning everyone in Newcastle and Northumberland to the nightmare that is The People's Republic of Scotland.

Only just found 'plank of the week'... yay... amazing.

Taxes. If you want to do business in the UK you should have a UK 'branch' and pay UK taxes. They should in fact be penelised for moving abroad, not 'rewarded'.

Been saying they need to build more prisons for years

Renee is such an intelligent and insightful person

Esther talks sense but needs to rest the gob at times and let others speak

Ron DeSantis is the GOVERNOR of the State of Florida, not a United States Senator.

I like the show but I wish Mike graham would stop interrupting the guests in the middle of making a point

Wow, i equate the BBC to the US NPR (National 'Commie' Radio) i only listen to it in order to raise my blood pressure. Esther K. is brilliant.

Esther is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.

They’ll never take down a statue of Owain Glyndwr our last prince of wales if they did there’ll be war in wales

Who pays Lineker wages the public not the BBC

The thumbnail of Prince Andrew looks like Steve Bray. Interestingly you never see them both in same room 🤔

Jippiee, its Friday - week highlight of insanity in the world

Esther. Nailed it again regarding Biden. Orwell called them gramophone minds. There are so so many of them. And they walk among us.

Frogmore is actually 5, 2 storey cottages mashed into one. Charles and Andrew are both thinking of giving interviews....comsidering how well their first ones went.

Should Gary Lineker win again?

Pretty sure that Mr Graham is incorrect about border force strike, the part performing channel crossing taxi service don’t go on strike, it is only the staff everywhere else at airports, ports and I think even those at French border this time. How ironic is their dereliction of duties everywhere by the channel, welcome to 1984. The world would continue to spin with £180k less civil servants that is for sure🤦‍♂️ Good show though, certainly cream rises to the top in terms of guests

Nah, the dystopia that awaits us will make 1984 read like Hop On Pop.

Keir Starmer is Max Headroom

BBC, A complete joke! in 2010 I sent back my TV licence because I was leaving the sinking ship that is the UK, within a week of my notifying the BBC they actually gave me a refund, Great, you might think! But then 10 years later the BBC sent me an email informing me that my TV licence was about to expire, and if I did not renew it I faced a heavy fine!!!! You could not make that up!

Peter Bleksley is overlooking the fact that Lineker was not only accusing the government of behaving like NAZIS, he was also accusing everyone who supports the government policy of being NAZIS, Many of those people will be paying the BBC stealth tax. So, in effect, Lineker was insulting the very people who pay his ludicrous salary. As far as I'm concerned, that disgusting and disgraceful insult warranted the termination of his contract. Whilst I agree with Esther Krakue's opinion of Lineker, the fact that he has the intellect of a grape and a hair trigger tongue, should not be seen as an excuse.

Humza a very Scottish name

Shouldn't it be the "PLANK OF THE YEAR" this time???

Esther take on Trump was pathetic. Look at his policies` success and America`s standing when he was President. Trump 2024 not DS. Don`t sprout on topics you haven`t researched or is she under orders from the owners?

How many people have read , or seen 1984? It is happening now. When labour get in ......

Renee is beautiful

I thought it was just here in the States that statues and other historical things were getting removed 😳

Isn't it funny how Conservative type women always look so smart !

Tim Davie is just laughing at you.

Wanting a king is something totally different from wanting Charles 😂😜

Love Esther and generally agree with her views, but I have an opposing view. She dominates the discussions too much when she’s on plank of the week. I’d like others on the panel to get the chance to speak up more, but every time Esther takes over.

The Esther Krauke Show? I want to hear all the guests, not just her.

Please tell Esther to button it now and again. She always talks a lot of sense, but never seems to know when to stop!

Joe only wears the dark sunglasses so you can't ses the empty space behind them.

Does a former police officer have more authority in opinion than a former footballer? The irony....

Peter Bleksley reminds me so much of my beloved grandad 26:37

Andrew needs ten bedrooms for his Teddys.

Avoid EPSTEIN connections or RU-vid will cancel

Royal..yeah. THEY dont pay death tax, or inheritance tax..

When I was a child I climbed trees did boy things .I am a female nothing I did when I was a child made me think I wanted to change my sex.The world is insane and anybody encouraged going children to change their sex are evil.21 years should be the age to decide about your sex change etc.

And stop calling me Sargent sideways

The big problem with your assertion that snp members will show their true feelings over the gender debate is sadly displaced. At its height this membership numbered 125,000…..it’s just been revealed membership is now only 72,000, and the main apparent reason for the decrease is dissatisfaction with the leadership steam-rolling the flawed policy in the first place. I suspect and fear that the remaining ‘hard core’ WILL vote in Yousaf

Andrew laughs as we paid to keep him out of a US court.

Stop going on about the parole board. GG was released on licence, this is automatic, the parole board could not stop it. The good news is that he cannot be released now until a parole board decide he can.

Yes MY daughter who has Asperger’s and needs a Doctor in the cancer Hosp in wilmslow and can not get a apt when they’ve found a shadow ,and SHE CANT get ANYBODY to Help?

I would even see you guys are on the right! you're just normal in a crazy world!

When i vote imma stick my toe as far as the eye can see xD

Also Esther who pays for the head of an independent Scotland

There's enough planks here to make a raft and send these plonkers to Ruanda.

As for South Africa, we had a display of what the far left in the form of red-berets para-military of the EFF would do if in power, last Monday. Plank of the week is naturally Mr Johnson. 🤥 No prizes for guessing why. Even his acolytes on the panel will have to concede that he’s made himself a complete horses arse. Will they and the 29 who voted down the Windsor deal now shut up, stop mocking his integrity and let Rishi continue the excellent job he is doing. Sour grapes.

i think the problem is the education system is not going deep enough into history, not mentioning other empires like the Ottoman and Mongolian also white people was not the only slave traders, Africans even sold slaves and the Mesopotamian and Sumerian civilisations located in the Iran/Iraq region between 6000-2000BCE. There is the arab slave trade too. Slavery still happens in African and Arab Countries, but the west abolished it.

Humza Youssef to women in Ukraine, "Where are all the men??"🤷🤦😱

I don't like Grant but I see no problem with what he said this time.

Princess Ugeine is living in Frogmore House not Prince Andrew

I have to say, though I can't stand Hugh Grant's flippety floppety wokery, I do like it when celebrities are just rude as opposed to telling you how wonderful everyone on set was before lecturing you on the secret life of cows. (I'm a bloke by the way.) I also think that robots could easily be programmed to ask the same inane questions as "entertainment" "journalists".