002: 55% Tory Dimwittery vs 3% climate and 100% Mick Lynch

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

From Don’t Look Up to maximum cringe… this week political commentator Marina Purkiss and broadcaster Jemma Forte discuss the UK government’s removal of bodily autonomy from an international human rights statement (could UK abortion laws be changing?!), the Conservative leadership race including how anyone overseas can vote, and Supertanskiii’s appeal. This episode also contains clips from Andrew Marr on LBC, GB News, and our podcast chart rivals, Newscast. Give us a follow over on Twitter, we’re @thetrawlpodcast and/or subscribe to our newsletter on Substack. No context quotes from this episode: “There’s no revolution just yet””We should start naming heatwaves after fossil fuel companies”“Anyone in China, join in, get a bit of British democracy” “When you become Prime Minister evict him”“Handsmaid’s Tail meets Jilly Cooper”“Is he single, Mick Lynch?” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thetrawl.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tax Act can think of a million things more fun than filing taxes.
0:04.0	Tax Act is going to name some now.
0:07.0	Sitting in traffic.
0:08.0	Folding a fitted bed sheet.
0:11.0	Listening to your coworker talk about his fantasy team.
0:14.0	Digging a hole.
0:16.0	Digging an even larger hole next to that original hole.
0:19.0	Unfortunately, Tax Act's filing software can't make
0:22.9	taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with.
0:32.2	He will have to be about that at that point, that is true.
0:38.2	Hello, and welcome to The Trroll, the show where we scroll through Twitter so you don't have to.
0:43.7	I'm Marina Perkis.
0:45.2	And I'm Gemma Forte, and this week we've got a right old mixed bag of tweets to serve up for you,
0:50.0	including one which drew our attention to something that I don't think we ever would have heard
0:54.5	about if it wasn't for Twitter. But just before we get stuck in, can we please start by saying
0:59.8	thank you so much for helping us get into the podcast charts? We were blown away. Around my house,
1:06.2	I was doing so much whooping. It was like some sort of tragic hen night for one. We were buzzing our proverbials off,
1:14.0	aren't me, Gemma? I kept checking back on the podcast charts, like an absolute lunatic. At one point,
1:20.7	we were higher than the archers for heaven's sake. Like, the archers. I know. That was absolutely
1:26.5	mad. And Peter Crouch!
1:27.7	My son was so chuffed.
1:29.5	Didn't it make you have a podgazm?
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