Budget Fallout, Reform Turmoil &....a Tree Surgeon Radicalises a Lamp Post
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a week of karaoke meltdowns, pleather-skirt floor-crawling and a rusty saw nightmare… and yet Marina and Jemma are more determined than ever to get behind the mic to discuss the latest batshittery from the world of news and politics.
They dive into the spectacular chaos of Your Party, and ponder the finally-we’re-saying-it-out-loud national acceptance that Brexit is absolute dogshit, before analysing an absurd week of headlines that prove the tabloids are still going for Rachel Reeves with pretty vicious vengeance.
There’s also some tree-surgeon flag-shaggery, Reform UK chaos and the delicious irony of David Coburn shouting about sovereignty from his French château. Plus: Jonathan Gullis has swapped sinking ships.
It’s a packed, punchy, unhinged week - so pretty standard - enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:00.9 | Ah, I'm going to watch. |
| 0:03.8 | Okay. |
| 0:04.6 | Five, four, three, two, and here we go. |
| 0:08.9 | Everybody, have a fabulous record. |
| 0:11.5 | Being told, my name is one of these nine being floated around by Reform UK. |
| 0:16.2 | Absolutely, not a cat's hand in chance. |
| 0:18.6 | Will I be defecting? |
| 0:30.6 | No. Absolutely not a cat's hand in chance will I be defecting. Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we over-commit to delivering too many episodes of this bloody podcast and then have meltdowns about |
| 0:38.0 | later. I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte and on the verge of some kind of nervous breakdown. |
| 0:45.4 | Yes, it's only two episodes this week and even that feels like it might push us to the edge. |
| 0:50.2 | Are you feeling like we're feeling drawners? We've got absolutely loop de loop. Let's just say, |
| 0:55.5 | let's have a little recap. If we just look at last week alone, a lot of work. Let's just say, |
| 1:00.7 | full-time work. We produced three podcasts out and also, and then the trawl meets. And then also, |
| 1:07.0 | it was the week when I went to do some karaoke with Marina and our friend Kate. And during that, we were in a private booth. I need to point that out. But at one point, let's just say, Marina was really giving it some on a bit of a... Some wellies. Some wellie. I think it might have been... I mean, it was Celine Dion. I mean, you've got to be brave, right? Darling, it was Whitney Houston. I think you did both. I did. But let's just say, she actually made a pretty decent fist of it. Around this time, I think I had a pleather skirt on and was crawling along the floor, probably thinking I looked really sexy. |
| 1:40.6 | She was writhing. You were writhing, this footage. |
| 1:45.3 | Oh, bloody hell. |
| 1:51.1 | And then I went to the station and very cool, got on the wrong train home and ended up in the, in the middle of the countryside with the next train back to where I live, not due till |
| 1:55.5 | 4.35 a.m. |
| 1:56.8 | So that just gives you a flavour of where we're at this week. I've now essentially got |
| 2:02.8 | compliment on you. I've got the equivalent of like Trump's peepy tapes, haven't I, with that |
| 2:07.6 | video. Yeah. Of you just sliding down the wall, pretending to be Madonna. I mean, it was a very, |
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