Ep 138: Hot Cross Tories - an Easter Basket
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jemma and Marina kick off with a quick look at the latest MRP poll as reported in The Times, which doesn't read well for Sunak and Co. For some unknown reason, Rishi is still laughing however, as are the Question Time audience when Esther McVey is asked about her role as 'Minister of Common Sense.'
Though arguably X (formerly known as Twitter) could do with some sort of Common Sense Tsar because over Easter there was a lot of performative Christianity happening which was more sickening than overdoing the chocolate, frankly. Everywhere you looked Tories were outdoing themselves with their devout displays of worship - to the point where Liz Truss saw fit to stand outside a boarded up church clutching a live lamb that looked like it really wanted to escape. The Trawl ladies discuss the juxtaposition between supporting the Rwanda policy, wanting to criminalise the homeless and painting over murals to make refugee centres less welcoming, and being Christian. Interesting.
Meanwhile, just before the Easter break, Sunak sneaked out his latest list of people he wants to stuff into the Lords. Marina and Jemma inspect a few of them.
Easter themed Under rated Tweets and clips finish of the episode along with an Easter themed pudding.
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| 0:00.0 | The ministers are already doing their jobs in the various departments in cabinet. They don't have enough common sense. So you've got to come in and display more common sense. |
| 0:11.8 | Hello and welcome to The Trull, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. I'm Marina Perkis and I'm Gemma Forte and let's kick off with some latest election polling news that is more |
| 0:23.8 | delicious than all those Easter eggs, all that chocolate that you're stuffed into your faces over the |
| 0:29.1 | weekend. Because as published by The Times, the latest MRP poll, basically the one that's |
| 0:35.2 | known for its accuracy, not like a GB News viewer polls, has shown that, wait for it, the Tories are on course to secure. |
| 0:46.1 | Wait for it. Wait for it. Just 98 seats at the election. |
| 0:54.8 | Yay! Yay! Yay! 98 seats at the election. That's quite insane. |
| 1:01.1 | So basically what we're looking at there, if that's to be believed, let's not get complacent. |
| 1:07.1 | Remember, that's 250 Tories losing their seats. |
| 1:13.1 | So that includes Rishi Sunak and that includes Jeremy. |
| 1:17.6 | That includes a load of them, basically. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm not going to go through them, but Sunak and Hunt. |
| 1:21.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:22.7 | And yet, and yet, still Sunak, this is his kind of vibe at the moment. So this clip was posted by At Scotty G.B. |
| 1:31.8 | This is Sunac on a local radio station, Radio Tees, and Fairplay to the journal. |
| 1:39.1 | When will there be a general election? |
| 1:42.9 | I've answered that question many times in the last few weeks. So when will be the general election? Well, I've answered that question many times in the last few weeks. |
| 1:46.7 | So when will be the general election? |
| 1:48.3 | Can you give us a date on BBC Radio T's this morning, Prime Minister? |
| 1:51.0 | No, as unfortunately not. |
| 1:54.4 | But the most important thing is, why not? |
| 1:55.9 | Why is that funny? |
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