008: New Cabinet Carnage, Bonfire of Rights and “Specific & Limited” Tory Dystopia
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
There’s a breakdown of the new cabinet with singing from Jemma whilst Marina gives listeners an illuminating explanation of fracking (can you guess how many of the 20k wells we need have been built?).
In a dark week, there are a few shin kicks for right-wing commentator Mike Parry, discussion of the various names of Grant Shapps, and our political pair ponder Laura Kuenssberg’s ‘reporting’ of statements from ‘unnamed government sources’.
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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 | So my view is the change of leader requires a general reduction. |
| 0:47.8 | Thank you. Hello and welcome to the trawl, the show where we scroll through Twitter so you don't have to. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:55.5 | And I'm Marina Perkis and this week's trawl includes the world's best booking on a politics show ever, |
| 1:00.4 | Twitter's thoughts on our new PM, breakfast tele lunacy and more besides. |
| 1:06.7 | But first, Gemma, how are you? What's happening? Have you been attending lots of Liz Truss victory parties? |
| 1:11.7 | Oh, absolutely. I've just finished taking the bunting down off the front of the house, |
| 1:17.2 | and I've just peeled off my Union Jack tracksuit. I'm going to be honest with you, Marina. |
| 1:24.8 | You know, I'm usually pretty positive. I've been quite depressed. I don't know. I can take much more of this. |
| 1:31.1 | And yeah, it got to me for a couple of days to the point where it was the day before Johnson's last speech, please be last speech, God, it won't be well. |
| 1:36.3 | But I went to work and I came back really, really late and I was in that mode where I was like, |
| 1:40.8 | right, tonight I just want to take my makeup off and just watch something |
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