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The Trawl

Ep 118: 5 Families, 0 Rebellions & 1 Massive Bell

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Five seconds after Jemma and Marina finished recording the last Trawl, typically, British politics took a new turn for the mad. Cleverly has declared that unless you earn £37.5K you can't settle here with a foreigner. Having crushed millions of people's hopes and dreams and stuck a big Tory finger up to romance, there's hardly time to scream 'But what about Shirley Valentine?' before moving on to the next psychodrama. Oh yes, it's Rwanda shitshow time. The Tories are fighting like rats in a sack, determined to get the 'Rwanda Safety Bill' through and to hell with the law. None of it has been edifying but Mark Francois strutting about talking about his 'star chamber' and 'spartans' and the 'five families' is particularly astounding and generates a lot of great tweets. George Monbiot put in a brilliantly impressive turn on Question Time so Marina and Jemma make sure you hear a bit of that. Then it's time to pay tribute to poet Benjamin Zephaniah who sadly died.  It's fitting that this episode finishes with a poem for pudding. This one is written by Michael Forte (Jemma's dad) and the Trawl ladies think it's got Trawl written all over it.  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

0:22.9

taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with.

0:30.1

It says, we will legislate that Rwanda is a safe country. Regardless of whether Rwanda is or is not a safe country, we will put it in the law

0:39.4

that it is a safe country.

0:41.3

You might as well have a bill which legislates that the moon is made of green cheese.

0:49.4

Hello and welcome to The Trul where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.

0:53.7

I'm Marina Perkis.

0:54.8

And I'm Gemma Forte.

0:56.3

And that thing happened last week.

0:59.0

Oh my goodness.

1:00.2

We literally finished our record and boom.

1:04.4

Politics kicked off.

1:07.2

It was sort of quite frustrating really.

1:09.0

Yeah.

1:09.5

And it left me and Marina reeling and struggling actually to keep up with our bookmarked content.

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