Ep 137: Gullis promoted, the £100k struggle & Owen Jones
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It's another jam-packed pod... opening with furious reaction to Nike's England flag rebrand and some commentary from Marina which resulted in an Express news article dedicated just to her.
Then it's onto Owen Jones, who this week announced he was leaving the Labour party, to a very mixed reaction. Marina and Jemma explore their own thoughts and feelings on this, because despite the polling and the complacency - it ain't over till it's over.
Hunt gets his own section thanks to his tone-deaf comments about people in his constituency not getting by on £100k. Something has to have gone pretty wrong in an economy if you can be earning £100k and still not make ends meet. The ladies discuss and share the best reactions and explore what 30p Lee might have said. Learn to budget better perhaps?
The Kate Middleton news gets a brief mention as the ladies chat through the reaction to the announcement before moving swiftly on to the big news in town...
The Conservatives have a new Deputy Chairman and his name is Jonathan Gullis! He must be thrilled to be promoted to a job he's going to lose in 5 months.
Then Jemma and Marina finish with the latest and greatest bit of disinformation put out by Tory Twitter before finishing with a perfectly on-topic pudding about flags.
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| 0:00.0 | Gripped by the tendrils of rising crime, London citizens stay inside. |
| 0:05.5 | The streets are quiet. |
| 0:07.7 | Quieter at night now than they used to be. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello, and welcome to The Trawl, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:19.5 | And I'm Gemma Forte. And last week, everyone lost |
| 0:23.2 | their shit. When Nike fiddled about with the England flag on the latest overpriced polyester |
| 0:29.3 | offering, they perhaps knowingly caused uproar on social media. I don't think people were kicking |
| 0:35.0 | off in the streets by giving the usually white and red |
| 0:38.8 | St George Cross, a bit of a glow up. They made it purple, basically, and Politics UK tweeted, |
| 0:45.0 | New, the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems of all United, makes a change, to condemn Nike's new |
| 0:51.5 | St George Cross design on the England Euro shirt as they demand a return |
| 0:56.1 | to the original. At bearded genius tweeted, lads, the country's going to shit. Energy prices, of course, |
| 1:03.1 | the sharpest increase in absolute poverty in 30 years. Councils are going bankrupt, backlogs in the |
| 1:08.5 | NHS and courts will take an estimated 10 years to clear. |
| 1:12.4 | 4.3 million children are growing up in poverty. But yeah, you crack on. |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah, and crack on they did. So Sword Carrier Extraordinaire, Penny Morden. |
| 1:23.5 | She actually went as far as to set up an email address for her constituents to write into |
| 1:29.9 | in case they'd been affected by the change. She wrote, I know many people will have strong |
| 1:37.2 | feelings on this. Sometimes it is hard to get your complaint heard by companies like Nike. |
| 1:42.0 | If you are from Portsouth North, email me at |
| 1:44.3 | petty.mordant.m.m.p. at parliament.uk. And I will make sure your concerns are listened to |
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