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The Trawl

Ep 122: A Very British Post Office Scandal

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Why can’t every freeborn Briton burn his Christmas tree in his own hearth?  Jemma and Marina ponder how this question, that is on precisely nobody's lips, was chosen by blovitaing bell Boris Johnson as the hill to die on for his £15k per column article in the Daily Mail. You've got to wonder if they're having buyer's remorse yet.  Then brace yourselves, as it's onto our new Brexit benefit! Move aside pint of wine, because now we have shellfish in the Thames! Prawn cocktail a la Thames, anyone? Or perhaps a bit of Coquille St Craps?  But the meat of this pod is dedicated to the utterly gut-wrenching Post Office scandal. The ladies discuss why this story has finally captured everyone's attention and how it is sadly symptomatic of a country where the rich and powerful can cheat and crush the little person. They discuss the gross gangster-style bullying and intimidation carried out by the Post Office and talk about the person who is really at fault here... Keir Starmer - apparently! Plus they pay homage to tireless campaigners of the cause like Priti Patel, or at least she made out she was, until a Community Note on X proved otherwise.  After a delicious dose of fury from Ian Hislop as he schooled Tory MP Jake 'not very bright' Berry, the ladies move on to Kate Middleton's winning fashion formula, which is totally accessible for all - we just need to wait for H&M to start stocking diamond-encrusted tiaras, shields and tridents.  Then it's onto underrated tweets and clips of the week, including a particularly cheeky Farage-flavoured one and a belter of a Post Office pudding from the wonderful satirist, Rosie Holt.   Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreon https://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTrawl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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, but Tax Act can help you get them done.

0:27.5

Tax Act, let's get them over with.

0:30.1

They were incentivized to make money for the post office, and that led to ignoring what was going on in the hope of getting better remuneration.

0:40.7

And that's disgrace.

0:44.8

Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. I'm Gemma Forte.

0:51.3

And I'm Marina Perkis. And Gemma, I'm wondering, how did you get rid of your

0:56.2

Christmas tree? Because I'm assuming if it's fake, like mine is, you probably took it apart,

1:02.7

put it back in its bag, stored it in a cupboard perhaps. Or was it real? If so, did you put it out for

1:07.6

the bid man? Yeah, I had a real one. And I'm very lucky in my area because after sixth night or whatever, the first bin day,

1:15.9

my lovely bin men come along and collect our trees for us, which is excellent.

1:20.6

Bin men or I guess bin women as well, bin people.

1:24.0

Been people, although I'm very friendly with all of mine and I can confirm they are all men

1:29.1

okay fair enough but my point in the point i'm getting out i mean not that friendly not that friendly

1:34.6

does you fight them rubber tea but anyway the point i'm getting out is you didn't burn it in your

1:40.5

fireplace shouldn't burn the tree in your fireplace? No, mainly because I haven't got a fireplace. But also no, because even if I had a fireplace,

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