Ep 132: Budget, bluster and bell curves...
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It's budget day! And at time of record, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had just dropped what the ladies hope will be the last Tory budget. Imagine that...
Jemma and Marina give some initial reactions to Hunt's speech which opened with lies, continued with lies, and then finished with lies - because if there's one thing Hunt is good at, it's consistency.
The ladies then move from the goings-on in Westminster to those in Rochdale with a lookback at George Galloway coming first in the Rochdale by-election, and Richard Tice's Reform candidate coming fourth - in a two-horse race, no less.
Then it's onto that Sunak speech outside number 10 on a Friday at 5:30pm, which for all his faults, Boris Johnson would never have done - most probably because it would have eaten into wine-time Fridays.
This week's underrated section is a buffet of delicious clips and tweets, including THAT Grazia interview with Rishi Sunak and his wife as they tried to convey themselves as totally normal, and came across as anything but.
The ladies finish with a clip of Sky's Sophy Ridge that felt heaven-sent for The Trawl, plus a smash hits pudding from Munya Chawawa.
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| 0:00.0 | The standard deviation model is true in politics. |
| 0:03.0 | Most people are in the middle. |
| 0:04.0 | We can work with the bell curve and become the bell-m-m-ms. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the trawl, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:18.0 | And today, trawlers is Budget Day. |
| 0:21.8 | So we'd better have a surmise of that. |
| 0:25.1 | But also, we'll be revisiting what happened at the Rochdale by-election, |
| 0:29.5 | because we're very timely over here at the trawl, aren't we? |
| 0:31.9 | Just on the pulse. |
| 0:33.8 | And the weird speech, of course, that Sunnet gave for reasons we might never know outside Downing Street on a Friday evening. |
| 0:41.3 | So this episode, if we were going to title it, we could call it, men behind lecterns telling you things you don't care about or things you don't want when all you really do want is an election. |
| 0:53.8 | Do you know what, Marina, it's not the snappiest of titles, but yes, that would sum it up. |
| 0:58.6 | So today, at time of record, our dear, dear Chancellor, the architect of austerity has just |
| 1:05.7 | announced his latest genius ideas in the budget. |
| 1:09.6 | But what's his name again? |
| 1:11.6 | Circumstances changed. |
| 1:13.0 | Mr. Hunt, Mr. Hunt, had to rapidly... |
| 1:15.8 | The health secretary, Jeremy Kant. |
| 1:17.9 | The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, says he's... |
| 1:21.6 | Oh, mature. |
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