012: The Dark Arts of Thinkie Tankie Bankies

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the 12th edition of The Trawl, Marina Purkiss & Jemma Forte take a deep dive into two articles that feel worthy of some proper scrutiny. In short: basically we’re now being governed by extremists. There’s a lot of Think Tank chat too… one of whom has blocked one of our hosts. The political pair also discuss UK PM Liz Truss’ tete a tete…or tete a tit as far as Truss is concerned… with Joe Biden at the UN conference. Plus there are some clips from LBC’s James O’Brien on trickle down economics, some reminders of lies told by “Brexiteers”, a fun description of new health secretary Therese Coffey, and a few pies of despair… Here are the two articles discussed in the show Liz Truss – a foot soldier for American economic and religious fundamentalists? by Ann Mood for Yorkshire Bylines American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party A Network of Influence by Nafeez Ahmed for Byline Times Seen a great tweet? Twit us @TheTrawlPodcast. 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google | Podtail | Pocketcasts 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	You told everyone in 2016, a U.S. free trade deal was there for the taking quickly in the back pocket.
0:37.1	It would happen.
0:41.9	Hello and welcome to The Troll, the show where we scroll through Twitter so you don't
0:48.6	have to. I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte. And on today's Troll, we're going to do a deep dive into a couple of articles
0:57.0	which are fried our tiny little minds, but which we both feel are really worthy of some proper scrutiny.
1:04.1	I mean I can give you the nutshell now listener and it's not great. I mean, basically, the headline is,
1:11.8	we're being governed by extremists. Yeah, that's just sort of the gist, isn't it, Marina?
1:17.5	Yeah, fun times. I mean, I wish that were hyperbole. And I know we try to keep things light on this podcast, but it ain't light.
1:26.6	And it's all connected, by the way.
1:28.2	But first, let's look at the fact that Liz Truss has been over to America to meet Joe Biden at a UN conference.
1:37.2	I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for that.
1:40.7	Tetat-Tet or, in fact, tete-a-tete as far as Truss is concerned.
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