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The Trawl

Ep 114: Rwanda, Vallance's Diary & Exploding Heads

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to the Covid Enquiry we go to hear what Vallance and Whitty had to endure during the pandemic. Spoiler alert - incompetence, idiocy and disrespect mainly. We also find out they were burdened with a PM who didn't understand the science and thought if people died it was 'OK' if they'd had a 'good innings.' Lovely. But first, Jemma and Marina are thrilled that The Exploding Heads' catchphrase 'Love to the family Colin' is catching on. Hear an extraordinary caller who was so aerated about immigrants he was positively yelling at Tom Swarbrick on LBC. Then Jemma also encountered yet another 'Colin' on Jeremy Vine. 'Love to the family....love to the family' was the only worthy response. Funny how it's always 'foreigners' these 'types' get so worked up about.  Which brings us to Rwanda- ie the most unworkable, costly, morally dubious idea ever to have been deemed unlawful multiple times. The latest ruling by the Supreme Court is in and when Sunak binned Braverman he had the perfect opportunity to bin the policy off with her. But no, Dr Death (as he's being referred to on X due to his ill advised Eat Out to Help Out policy) is standing by it, doubling down and trying to change the law in order to change fact.   On a lighter note, Cliff Richard, went on This Morning and told the world that he didn't get photographed with Elvis because he'd put on weight. At times like this Twitter can be fun.  Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreon https://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 taxes fun,

0:24.3

but Tax Act can help you get them done.

0:27.5

Tax Act, let's get them over with.

0:30.2

Oh, yeah, so wonderful. I'd love to live on that, Barch.

0:33.3

Fantastic.

0:34.5

Wonderful for my mental health.

0:36.1

Nigel, you wouldn't.

0:39.6

Love to the family, Nigel. Love to the family.

0:46.0

Hello and welcome to the troll where we scroll through social media.

0:48.6

So you don't have to. I'm Gemma Forte.

0:52.8

And I'm Marina Perkins. And in this episode, it's hi-ho, hi-ho.

1:14.2

Hi-ho. It's off to the COVID inquiry. we go where Patrick Valence is the latest person to feel profoundly sorry for for having to deal with the epic stupidity of Boris Johnson. But first, if you listen to the trawl regularly, you'll know that we always end up with a pudding. It's only fair. It it feels only fair, after having fed you a main diet of basic butt shittery and government incompetence.

1:16.1

So it's only fair that we serve up something sweet at the end.

1:19.4

And we have many favourite puddings.

1:22.2

But Gemma and I have noticed a very pleasing thing

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