Budget Lube, Raver Dads and Farage Fluffs Figures
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Trawl, Marina and Jemma wade through a week so grim it makes the John Lewis Christmas ad look like a cry for help.
From Rachel Reeves’ gloomy pre-budget spin to Nigel Farage’s bright idea that young people should earn less (apparently poverty builds character), the Trawl ladies cover it all. There’s a reality check on the cost of living, a brutal look at the online reaction to the LNER train stabbings, and a dose of festive existentialism courtesy of Waitrose and a raver dad.
It’s politics, propaganda and pudding bowls of hypocrisy — all served with the usual mix of outrage, wit, and a few well-aimed “go f*** yourselfs”.
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| 0:00.0 | We can't put up the Christmas lights until the flags have been put down. |
| 0:04.1 | And the leader of Kent County Council once vowed not to remove the flags, |
| 0:08.6 | put up unilaterally by the people of Kent. |
| 0:11.0 | So it's almost as if these people are blithering idiots. Hello and welcome to The Trawl, where we regurgitate the best and worst of the internet for you |
| 0:30.6 | and try to make politics palatable, despair, wonder and occasionally laugh. I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:37.8 | And I'm Gemma Forte and, oh, what's going on this week? Oh, it's all cheery stuff. We've had Rachel Reeves. What's the opposite of fluffing someone up, like, you know, looobbing someone up? She's done whatever the really gloomy version of that is. It's just like, hello, I'm here to make a speech, |
| 0:54.9 | just to warn you that you're going to hate the budget, all right? |
| 0:57.8 | I know. whatever the really gloomy version of that is. It's just like, hello, I'm here to make a speech, |
| 0:54.9 | just to warn you that you're going to hate the budget, all right? I know. All right. And before I get |
| 1:00.5 | into it, let me just tell you, it's not my fault. Okay. Bloody Brexit, bloody things out of my |
| 1:08.7 | control. But the thing is, bloody Brexit is in your control. |
| 1:13.0 | If it's not in your control, whose control is it in? |
| 1:15.2 | Do something about it. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.1 | So, yes, we all await that with a sort of sense of dread. |
| 1:21.0 | And then what else? |
| 1:21.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:22.3 | And then actually, sort of quite funny, Farage made a speech as well. |
| 1:26.3 | And it was so interesting. Because as you know, his kind of whole sort of quite funny, Farage made a speech as well, and it was so interesting, because as you know, |
| 1:28.9 | his kind of whole sort of thing is just to talk sort of absolute shit. I mean, he was promising, |
| 1:35.8 | was it something like, I don't know, 90 billion pounds worth of tax cuts at one point or something. |
| 1:40.4 | Tax cuts. And clearly, somebody has had a bit of a word, okay? And actually the bear, |
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