Ep 147: Keeping up with the Cameron...and his £42m private jet

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Poor poor Lawrence Fox - literally.

The episode opens with the unfortunate news of Laurence Fox having to pay large sums in libel damages. Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke.

Then all aboard the private jet - that's right, Lord David Cameron's £42m private jet, which he hired for his latest jaunt as Foreign Secretary, with the bill being footed by us taxpayers. Just as well he can be questioned about this in the House of Commons...Oh.

Next stop is Question Time, and this week was Tory MP, Chris Philp's turn to make an utter tit of himself with geography skills as impressive as Dominic Raab's.

Jemma and Marina move on to talk about the latest round of performative cruelty with the Govt's announcement around disability and sickness reforms, and seek to reassure anyone listening with some words of advice from Money Saving Expert, Martin Lewis.

To finish on a lighter note, Jemma and Marina serve up a Victoria Sponge of an underrated tweet of the week with pudding from Larry & Paul.

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0:00.0	You know, they say, it's my mental health. I can't go. I can't work. Well, get a grip.
0:09.1	Hello, and welcome to The Trawl, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:14.8	I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkis, and we're going to start with some sad news, I'm afraid.
0:20.7	Oh, hang on. Not sad for us.
0:22.7	Sad for Lawrence Fox.
0:24.7	Ex-actor, ex-husband of Billy Piper, ex-warnaby mayor or candidate, ex-warrant politician, current bell-end.
0:34.7	Because he has been ordered to pay £180,000 in damages having made libelous paedophile slurs.
0:44.8	Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke, could it, Gemma?
0:47.3	Also, English wrote, poor, poor Lawrence Fox.
0:52.2	I mean, literally, gosh. I mean, just as well he's from a rich background,
0:56.9	otherwise, goodness me, how's he going to afford that? I know, I know. Matt Heighton wrote,
1:02.6	to me, Lawrence Fox, it was like a cartoon mouse who was turned human to drive a coach and promised
1:07.8	he'd turned back into a mouse at midnight, But now it's been 35 years and he's
1:12.4	just so tired and confused at the human world and deep down just wants a little bit of cheese.
1:20.3	That is absolutely wonderful. Anyway, that's enough time spent on that massive bell.
1:30.1	Let's go to another one, though, straight away,
1:34.8	because this is news which blew our trall minds.
1:40.5	Lord Cameron, Lord of the weak.
1:50.8	Hamface, Hamface himself has basically, wow, he's, what he's decided to do is hire himself,
1:55.0	a private jet, but not just any old jet, right?
2:00.5	Not just just sort of standard private jet, which I understand that, you know, national security and foreign secretary and all of
2:01.8	that might be required. He's gone all out. He's gone full on. And he has hired one that is worth.
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