meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Trawl

Ep 70: Dishonourable Honours, Odious Odey and Dorries.

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7867 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jemma and Marina are glad to be at their mics after what has been an explosive week in British politics. Crispin Odey has been investigated by the FT and is facing multiple allegations of sexual assault - he's the man who shorted the pound after Brexit and laughed about it. He isn't laughing now.


Boris Johnson's honours list is causing problems left, right and centre due to the fact he included three sitting MPs on it. Marina and Jemma tour through the list which reads like an episode of Friends 'The one who.....' 


Meanwhile, it's fair to say Nadine Dorries hasn't taken the news that she's' not going to be getting a peerage very well. She's touring the studios bemoaning her fate and blaming the fact she's working class and from Liverpool. Nothing to do with Johnson messing up, Honest guv. It doesn't look like many of her fellow Scousers are feeling much sympathy for her though. 


There's an incredible pudding from Politics Joe which really is the icing on the cake.


Enjoy!


Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you’ve even mildly enjoyed The Trawl, you’ll love the unfiltered, no-holds-barred extras from Jemma & Marina over on Patreon, including:


• Exclusive episodes of The Trawl Goss – where Jemma and Marina spill backstage gossip, dive into their personal lives, and often forget the mic is on

• Early access to The Trawl Meets…

• Glorious ad-free episodes


Plus, there’s a bell-free community of over 3,300 legends sparking brilliant chat.


And it’s your way to support the pod which the ladies pour their hearts, souls (and occasional anxiety) into. All for your listening pleasure and reassurance that through this geopolitical s**tstorm… you’re not alone.


Come join the fun:


https://www.patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.

0:30.1

Why on earth did he allow a man who was about to be a disgraced

0:34.5

former Prime Minister and to have a resignation on on us which is full of some of the

0:39.5

most discreet people need to. Hello and welcome to the trawl where we scroll through social

0:47.3

media so you don't have to. I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte and I cannot tell you how happy we are to be gathered round these microphones.

0:58.1

It's a relief, quite frankly, because the last few days might have been the liveliest, most fascinating days in British politics since Marina and I began trawling.

1:09.8

But just in case you've been standing in a

1:11.5

cardboard box with ear mufflers on, let's have a really quick sort of recap. Basically last week,

1:17.5

as of time of record, Johnson's political career, what is left of it, began to seriously

1:24.2

unravel. And the whole business of his honours list started to cause havoc.

1:31.5

Oh, it did. And in light of so much political chaos, understandably, and it was actually

1:35.2

rather lovely, many of you were asking for an emergency troll. And why wouldn't you? Because, you know,

1:40.0

you've got the giants of political podcasting like Campbell and Stewart and

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.