Ep 144: 3am Sleaze, Marathon Glory and Rwanda Shame

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Claire Coutinho, has said that the Tory's have overshot all their targets.... without laughing....on National TV. This is such an outlandish claim, she almost deserves a medal but not as much as Chris Packham does for his outstanding performance on the Laura K show. And certainly not as much as everyone who ran the London Marathon does. Jemma and Marina enjoy some highlights and chat about what impressed and inspired them most about the annual, 26 mile, test of endurance. It won't surprise regular listeners to discover that Marina's favourite moment involved wine.

Then, the Trawl ladies rake over what happened at 3am one night when Tory MP, Mark Menzies, put in a phone call because he needed to pay off some 'bad people.'

Talking of bad people, Jemma and Marina are gutted that after many rounds of political ping pong, the Rwanda bill has finally been passed. A moment of national shame that ironically comes on the same week as St George's Day. But when does national pride become pure nationalism?

Pudding is served by comedian Matilda Thorpe.

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0:00.0	Special welcome to those few returning from our British Airways Club.
0:03.2	Spaghetti, Scooter, Stadium.
0:06.4	Huh.
0:07.2	My recent emojis are like a highlight store of my holiday.
0:11.2	Gelato, bird, sad face.
0:14.6	Just didn't see that sneaky seagull coming.
0:17.3	Free Wi-Fi messaging for British Airways Club members.
0:20.0	Another British Airways Travel Essential.
0:22.1	Available on selected British Airways aircrafts from Heathrow and Gatwick when you sign up for free as a British Airways Club member.
0:26.9	Data is limited to text only, images and videos are not included.
0:30.0	The mental calculation that's made is, look, we've got a hell of a lot of incoming mud sticking to our face.
0:36.7	Let's throw some back and just see if any of it
0:39.0	sticks.
0:42.8	Hello and welcome to The Trall where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. I'm
0:47.7	Marina Perkis and I'm Gemma Forte and as Britain collectively staggers on, desperate for an election, for change, for hope,
0:57.5	certain Tories continue to act as if everything's going swimmingly. Only you can't swim
1:02.8	anywhere anymore because our rivers are full of shit, as is Clare Guitino, the Tory Environment
1:09.0	Secretary, who uttered this hilarious lie on national TV last week without even flinching.
1:17.0	Look at our record. So every single target that we've had so far,
1:20.4	we've not only met, but we've overshot.
1:23.3	Yeah, there's only one sensible reaction to that, and it's this.
1:37.0	What a melon. And let's get back to basics, right? So that woman you just heard there isn't just unfit for the role, in my opinion, in our opinion. She's the polar opposite of who the person
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