Ep 204: Musk flirts with Reform

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The pod opens with a nod to the festive season and how Marina handles questioning from her husband as more Christmas decorations enter the house, before kicking off with the non-scoop of the century from Charlotte Gill.

Charlotte, bless her, is a journalist (feels like a bit of a reach) who believes she has unearthed a shady underground network of left-leaning people and organisations. Just wait until you hear about her latest link revelations...

Then it's onto the meat of the episode and it's Musk who has been flirting with Reform leading to an article in The times questioning whether a $100m donation could be making its way from Space Karen to Pound Shop Enoch. The ladies discuss the rank hypocrisy at play and the desperate need for political financing reform - not tomorrow, not in a year, but now.

There's a good giggle at the state of Trump's Mar-a-Lago thanksgiving dinner before some serious talk and choice words from Jemma as Farage wades into the abortion debate.

The pod ends with a pardon, that of Biden for his son hunter, and a deliciously matched pudding from new Trawl fave, Cody Dahler.

Transcript

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0:00.0	We've got 100,000 members. I've got a million funnels on TikTok.
0:03.2	Dame Andrew Jenkins has just joined us.
0:04.9	She's our candidate for Greater Lincolnshire.
0:07.6	You've had your fun. I'm off of lunch.
0:11.1	Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:15.8	I'm Gemma Forte.
0:17.1	And I'm Marina Perkis.
0:18.4	And here at the Trawl, we're managing to feel quite festive. And that's despite the political binfire. Over on Instagram, this post posted by Scott in South End, captured the vibe in my house. It said, when my husband asks me, how much I've spent on Christmas decorations at the
0:39.0	garden centre.
0:40.3	I don't really want to be telling you strictly confidential business information that, quite
0:46.2	frankly, you have absolutely no right to know.
0:50.6	You've got no right.
0:52.7	Got no right, Ben.
0:53.7	Absolutely not. Yeah, it's all happening, isn't it, Puddy Pee? It is, it is. We've got no right. Got no right, Ben. Absolutely not.
0:55.2	Yeah, it's all happening, isn't it, Puddy Pee?
0:57.0	It is, it is.
0:57.8	We've got Christmas planning.
0:58.8	We've got parties.
1:00.5	But sort of all with like a mad authoritarian's trying to rule the world backdrop,
1:05.4	which is a bit tricky navigating, actually.
1:07.7	It is, it is.
1:09.2	In some trawl news, we've recorded our next trawl meets and we are
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