Ep 131: Right gone wrong - Suella, Lee and Liz

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Like Mariah, Celine and Whitney, Tory bells Lee, Suella and Liz need only their first name for instant recognition. But sadly, instead of singing absolute belters, this trio of wrong' uns are spewing hate, division and stoking fear.

This pod is sectioned, as some might suggest our trio should be, to allow for individual dissection of the latest line-crossing of these three Tories, who are seemingly on a mission to get themselves so far to the right, that our hope is they tip over.

Jemma and Marina discuss Suella's latest Torygraph article where she declared the Islamists, extremists and antisemites are now in charge of Britain, which makes somewhat of a change from it being the blob, the elite establishment and the tofu-eating wokerati.

Then it's onto Lee Anderthal, who limited his apparent Islamophobia to London and its Mayor instead of the whole of Great Britain - how very restrained of him. The ladies discuss the dangerous conflation between Islam and Islamists, and the shocking results of a Tory member poll that shows this dangerous conflation is having an impact., before attempting to lighten the tone with some wonderful reactions to Lee's latest cock-up.

And when is racism, not racism? Well, when it's covered by the BBC and is demoted to just 'criticism'. Astounding coverage of these events followed astounding interviews where ministers and Secretaries of State metaphorically soiled themselves on air, which are served up for your listening pleasure.

Finally, it's onto Liz - who last week found herself serving her South-West Norfolk constituents all the way from a far-right conference in the US. Staying true to form, Liz spent her time trying to wreck things as quickly as possible - not the UK economy, mortgages and pension funds this time - instead she has moved on to US/UK diplomatic relations. Well done, Liz.

The ladies praise Sunak's efforts in doing what no PM has done before - uniting Liverpool and Chelsea fans. Then it's onto a few delicious underrated tweets to help you get through the sheer ridiculousness of it all, before pudding from Larry & Paul.

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0:00.0	I'll ask you now, for the third time, I've asked you six times whites in history, for the third
0:04.6	time, was it Islamophobic?
0:08.2	Nick, it was wrong.
0:09.5	I'll have to curtail the interview, though.
0:13.9	Hello, and welcome to The Trawl, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:19.5	I'm Marina Perkis.
0:20.7	And I'm Gemma Forte.
0:22.2	And last weekend, at time of record, three prominent Tories morally and politically soiled themselves
0:29.3	in a way which made me feel utterly appalled to be British, frankly.
0:34.7	And because politics is such a circus these days, these politicians are infamous,
0:39.3	like sort of Mariah, Whitney and Celine. I only need to say their first names. Only these
0:46.3	political divas are tuneless. And instead of singing romantic power ballads, they're using their
0:53.3	platforms to squawk hate. Yes, trawlers,
0:57.4	today's episode stars Lee, Suella and Liz. Oh, gosh, what a trio. Because there's just never a dull
1:08.3	moment, is there? Never a dull moment. And as ever, Gemma and I could not believe what was unfolding.
1:13.2	We should really have learnt by now just to believe what was unfolding.
1:16.9	And we were bookmarking content like deranged online librarians.
1:22.8	And as a result, the only way to handle this, we think, is intersections.
1:27.9	And there's an overarching theme which links all three of these dangerous balance,
1:32.3	that being desperation, the desire to sow division, and darker still, racism towards the Muslim community.
1:40.4	Or, as the Tories prefer to refer to it, it's not racism, it's just wrong. It's
1:45.8	only a bit wrong, that's all. To set the scene, here is Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham,
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