Ep 159: Did they really say that? Campaign travesties, lots of laughs and Macron's gamble

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if you saw Boris Johnson coming out of a bush? It's a startling sight but it could happen if he happens to be promoting one of his columns for The Mail. As for his sister, she definitely won't be in a Lidl but might be in a Sainsbury's, you'll know why when you hear the clip.

Then we head to the campaign trail for 'The Election Section' and Beth Rigby is the latest presenter to have grilled Sunak and Starmer. Starmer may have done better in that arena but neither are covering themselves in glory with the public. One laughs at a doctor, the other has a tone deaf response to a child's story. Still, not much beats the reception, Esther Macvey got when she made some wild claim about her party.

Then to France we go and this is where it becomes apparent that Jemma might have had a night on the tiles and be feeling a little 'fragile' during record. Her French accent is more Del Boy than Del Boy's as Marina points out. Why has Macron called an election? What happened in the EU Parliament elections and why can't Jemma pronounce the word 'effortlessly.' There may be a few laughs in this ep

Then some truly staggeringly bad takes and a plethora of Under Rated Tweets.

Pudding is served by Munya Chawawa

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0:00.0	And the Conservative Party always gets the country back on its feet.
0:08.5	Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. I'm Gemma Forte.
0:16.5	And I'm Marina Perkis and Sunak is having a mare. Though as Moog pointed out, at least this
0:23.8	particular slogan is snappy and to the point. So tell us Sunak, how's it going?
0:30.0	I've made a mistake. That's what you always get from me. He's honest for once. Yeah. Tell it how it is.
0:39.6	Yeah. Made a mistake. That's what you get from me.
0:47.6	100%. Now, sorry to do this to you, but we're going to now go from him to nobody's favourite sack of custard, the sex yeti.
0:57.6	Because where else are we supposed to vent our spleen about the fact that this man is actually paid real money to write and spout.
1:02.1	Should we say who, hang, should we say who he is? Not everyone knows who nobody's favourite sack of custard is. Perhaps we should say his name, Gemma. Yes, all right, then, yeah, Boris Johnson,
1:06.7	good point. I tell you what, trawlers, bear with me today. I got in last night. We're a mess. We're a mess. We're a mess, but we're
1:14.9	going to do our best, and it's a packed trawl as well. But good luck us. I was in at 3am and had a really
1:20.8	fun time. And I just got told by Marina that I looked like a mole. So can't see her eyes.
1:27.3	Can't see. Where are Can't see where are they?
1:28.6	Where are they?
1:29.6	And Marina's on holiday and she's in the holiday spirit.
1:33.0	I've had a few holiday spirits as well.
1:35.4	Exactly.
1:36.2	So we're talking about Boris Johnson, of course.
1:39.1	And there was one piece where he included a frankly vile piece of anti-Semitism
1:43.3	where he used a slur
1:44.5	against Stama, which I'm not going to give oxygen to on here. And then, when he writes his
1:51.4	weekly slice of overpaid rubbish, he promotes it with videos of himself, which he shoots an
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