Ep 60: Local election carnage and more Coronation chaos...
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What a time to be alive...better still, what a time to be British! Jemma and Marina enjoy a momentary gloat at the public pummeling that was the May Local Elections. How could they not, when Tory MP Jonathan Gullis had his bluff and bluster drowned out by the sound of Labour victory cheers? All the while, Tory MPs, ministers and shills desperately scrambled around looking for positive spin, when alas, there was none.
And from one celebration to another - the King's Coronation! In this episode, Jemma and Marina provide audio footage of what was being said during that heated exchange between Charles and his Queen (not Consort) in the golden, gilded carriage.
And sadly that wasn't the only blight on the event, because for many the day will be remembered as a dark one for British democracy. Jemma and Marina discuss the fallout of Priti Patel's handiwork, the new Public Order bill, before finishing on a lighter note - their favourite, but unexpected hymn from the Coronation ceremony choir and a pudding that celebrates our new King...in modern Britain.
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| 0:00.0 | Tax Act can think of a million things more fun than filing taxes. |
| 0:04.0 | Tax Act is going to name some now. |
| 0:07.0 | Sitting in traffic. |
| 0:08.0 | Folding a fitted bed sheet. |
| 0:11.0 | Listening to your coworker talk about his fantasy team. |
| 0:14.0 | Digging a hole. |
| 0:16.0 | Digging an even larger hole next to that original hole. |
| 0:19.0 | Unfortunately, Tax Act's filing software can't make taxes fun, |
| 0:24.3 | but Tax Act can help you get them done. |
| 0:27.4 | Tax Act, let's get them over with. |
| 0:29.5 | I know what. Hello and welcome to the troll where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm Runa Perkis. |
| 0:48.0 | And I'm Gemma Forte and I would like to open this trawl with a toast to that day of great British celebration, |
| 0:58.6 | the day that was a symbol of our greatness, a day that should unite us, |
| 1:04.1 | a day that reminded us what it meant to be British. |
| 1:07.8 | Yes, here's to the day that saw the Tories get absolutely bloody hammered in the local elections! |
| 1:13.8 | We! |
| 1:16.3 | Like that, very nice. |
| 1:17.9 | Yes. |
| 1:19.3 | And on that note, can we also celebrate the most hilarious spin in the history of spins? |
| 1:25.3 | So the local elections happened, they came, they saw, they obliterated the Tories in a history of spins. So the local elections happened. |
| 1:27.9 | They came. |
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