Ep 111: I predict a riot...and a sacking.

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Get on your knees... It's Tory MP remembrance Sunday photo-op time! And boy, did they all get the memo - because nothing says heartfelt moment of solemnity like a staged pic for the socials.

Jemma and Marina discuss the events of Saturday when a brainless crew of Suella's biggest fans descended onto the streets of London to defend...the realm.

Did The Mail take any responsibility for their whipping up of hate? Did they f*ck. Instead, their post-event coverage centered on a "jostled" Michael Gove who just happened to find himself amid a Palestine protest group.

The ladies discuss the fun day out had by the far-right 'patriots' - because nothing says respecting our war dead like a punch-up at the Cenotaph.

Then...ding-dong the witch is dead. Braverman gets the boot and becomes the proud author of one of the bitchiest resignation letters of all time with more than a few self-owns.

The ladies then have some jungle chat - both incredulous that a figure as damaging as divisive as Farage was deemed a fantastic new protagonist for a family TV show. And we wonder why the country is in the state it's in...

Then it's onto some underrated tweets, with a splash of sass, including a gem from Joe Lycett, before an impeccably on-brand pudding from Munya Chawawa.

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Transcript

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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
0:23.0	taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with.
0:30.1	I'm here because I'm English. I purely came here in defence of the realm.
0:36.4	Hello, and welcome to The Trull, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:41.0	I'm Marina Perkis.
0:42.3	And I'm Gemma Forte and last Sunday we had Remembrance Day or as the Tories refer to it.
0:49.1	Time to kneel down in a field with a poppy and look solemn day while my taxpayer-funded photographer takes a picture
0:55.1	for me to upload to social media. Honestly, it was a pandemic, a social media pandemic.
1:00.8	Everywhere you looked, there were Tory MPs doing this sort of awful, very uncomfortable squat.
1:05.9	You know when a man does a bend and they have to adjust their trousers and knock up?
1:10.9	Yeah.
1:11.3	It was like some of them hadn't done that and it looked like they were about to burst.
1:16.3	And also, Marina, I thought that Tory MPs didn't like to take the knee.
1:22.5	But it turns out if it's for a poppy, yes.
1:25.1	If it's for racism, no.
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