Bye Bye Truth, Hello Oligarchy - Plus the Latest Labour Lows...

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Everyone's favourite economy crasher is back on the scene... And she doesn't much like it when you call her that. Yes, Liz Truss is back and this time she's had a cease and desist letter issued to Keir Starmer over the 'defamatory' claim that she 'crashed the economy''. Ok hun.

But litigious letters are likely the least of Starmer's worries after what was a monstrous week for Labour. Jemma and Marina discuss the breaking news regrading former Labour minister, Ivor Caplin who appeared to have been caught by a vigilante group on his way to meet a child, and the resignation of treasury minister Tulip Siddiq after controversy over links to her aunt's dodgy political movement in Bangladesh.

On top of that, Reeves is getting all kids of flack (including from lard casserole, Boris Johnson) for her handling of the budget. Marina and Jemma bring balance to the conversation with their two cents, which is more than can be said for some Tories who insist on telling the media that Reeves should be sacked for not cleaning up 14 years of their mess in 5 minutes.

Lastly, are you all done with the truth? Because Mark Zuckerberg is, and as a result, we all are too. The ladies discuss the Meta CEO's decision to bin fact checkers as we enter a new oligarch-dominated post-truth era, and chat about Zuckerberg's now-viral comments about needing more masculine energy in the workplace. If that's what he wants, as the Have I Got news for You account wrote, Zuckerberg could start by shaving off his nan's perm.

A touch of inauguration chat about Trump's toddler-like behaviour ahead of the inauguration, before the ladies leave you with a pertinent pudding clip from The Exploding Heads named: CEO ANNOUNCES COMPANY NOW FULL FASCIST

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0:00.0	Hello Blue Skies. Hello moving onwards and upwards. Hello taking control of your money. Say hello to tax-free
0:09.3	investing. Open a stocks and shares ISA and act by the 5th of April to get 100 to 3,000 pounds cash back.
0:17.6	Cargreaves lands down. Hello Life. Register and add or transfer £10,000 plus. You may go back
0:24.5	less than you invest and tax benefits vary. For terms and conditions, see hl.co.uk.org
0:28.6	If you want to put Rachel's job on the line, you have to come up with a better plan than the plan that she's come up with.
0:34.7	You haven't got a single idea.
0:44.5	Hello and welcome to The Trawl, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:52.4	I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte. And today we need to talk about labour for a few reasons, actually, but also because of the economy.
0:56.1	There is so much discussion about Rachel Reeves going on. How much of our shit economy, though, is her fault and how much can be blamed
1:01.7	on the previous government? I don't know. What I do know is it all feels a bit like
1:05.4	Britain is a car, except it's one that's perhaps broken down and then just been abandoned by
1:10.7	its owner because
1:11.7	the owner is out of ideas.
1:13.6	Like a battered old Cleo.
1:15.2	Petrol, exactly.
1:17.0	Oh, and then, Marina, there's the hellish news.
1:19.1	We can discuss that Meta are going to fire all 40,000 of their fact checkers.
1:23.9	Great.
1:24.7	Yay.
1:25.4	Who likes truth, eh?
1:27.1	I'll tell you what, let's start with something funny,
1:29.3	though. Liz Truss has sent a cease and desist letter to Kier Stama over the defamatory claim,
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