007: Heckling Tories, Meeting Starmer, BBC Impartiality

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Trawl is brimming with corruption, politicians getting an earful, cost of living panic, Tory incompetence and Twitter take downs. Outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson shares some thrifty advice, Marina discusses meeting the Labour leader, and Jemma sings a new jingle for lorrrrrrrrd offfff the weeeeeek!!There’s also a gut-punch clip of a dinner lady discussing the reality of poverty in the UK, which will be exacerbated by the looming energy crisis, and several moments where the British public show their displeasure for the government in a way that makes you feel a little bit patriotic. 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 taxes fun,
0:24.3	but Tax Act can help you get them done.
0:27.4	Tax Act, let's get them over with.
0:30.2	If you have an old kettle that takes ages to boil,
0:34.4	it may cost you 20 pounds to replace it.
0:36.9	But if you get a new one, you'll save 10 pounds a year
0:40.1	every year on your, 10 pounds a year every year on your electricity bill.
0:53.4	Hello and welcome to the Tural, the show show where we scroll through Twitter so you don't have to.
0:59.1	I'm Marina Perkis.
1:00.3	And I'm Gemma Forte, and this week's trawl is brimming with corruption.
1:04.6	Politicians getting an earful, cost-a-living panic, Tory incompetence and Twitter takedowns.
1:10.0	But first, Marina, you basically meant the potential
1:14.7	next Prime Minister this week. What the hell? I mean, yes. I did. So Keir Starma was actually
1:23.2	going to be on, well, he was on Jeremy Vine's show on Channel 5 on the same day I was. So I was absolutely chomping at the bit like I'm going to be on, well he was on Jeremy Vine's show on Channel 5 on the same day I was.
1:28.5	So I was absolutely chomping at the bit.
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