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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance has been understandably controversial but, if Conservative HQ were trying to make people feel sad about it, they failed. If anything, by featuring people in their large houses, using coffee machines and wearing Rolexes, they gave people food for thought.
As you can imagine, the tweets are great....
Over in the States, Elon Musk has been attending Trump rallies and admitting to Tucker Carlson that if he doesn't win in November, he's screwed. An advert for Harris if ever there was one!
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0:00.0 | Co-op members now get prices matched to Audi. |
0:02.2 | Hold on. No way. |
0:04.0 | Okay then, so co-op members now get everyday essentials price-matched to Aldi. |
0:07.5 | Sign up and start saving. |
0:09.1 | Co-op. Owned by you, right by you. |
0:11.5 | I wasn't expecting that. |
0:12.9 | Co-op member prices matched versus comparable products at AudiGB. |
0:15.8 | Co-op membership required. |
0:16.9 | Co-op Group Foodstores only see co or go to UK slash Aldi Prize match. If we lose it up, fuck. |
0:22.6 | It does seem that way. |
0:24.7 | You can't just be like, you can't just be like, yeah. |
0:26.9 | Yeah, I'm like, how long do you think my prison sentence is going to be, be, be, be, be. |
0:34.0 | Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
0:38.4 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
0:39.7 | And I'm Gemma Forte and we're going to start with a video from Conservative HQ. |
0:45.6 | Now, it was meant to leave us all crying with empathy. |
0:49.7 | But unfortunately for them, it backfired and actually probably left quite a few people starting to wonder whether taking 200 quid away from some pensioners just isn't a problem at all and that perhaps, perhaps once again, our right wing media have slightly overblown it. |
1:07.3 | Now, look, we are the first to acknowledge that the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance will be hard for thousands of pensioners who really are struggling. |
1:16.6 | But that begs the question, why didn't the Tory comms team use them in the video that they |
1:23.5 | put out? So we'll have a listen and then we'll dive into what people were seeing while they were listening. But Karen Muradarasi said, this winter some pensioners may have to |
1:32.6 | choose between heating and eating, but not these pensioners. I'm 78. I do have walking problems. Well, for many years years I was a teacher of modern languages. I retired at 65. I'm divorced. |
1:53.8 | My children are not, well, health allowing. I still play tennis. It's a very lively community up here. |
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