Ep 77: Mercer madness, Tory travesty and our NHS.

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It’s been an interesting week for the Mercers. Tory MP, Johnny Mercer, said repeatedly that if veterans were using food banks it was about ‘choices’. Lovely. Meanwhile, Johnny’s wife, Felicity, wrote a pretty vicious piece in The Telegraph about Carol Vorderman. Jemma and Marina discuss the inevitable Twitter storm that followed. Sunak has been busy. He’s had questions to answer although the one Marina and Jemma would like to ask him is ‘why do you hate young people so much?’ The NHS is 75 years old. Pudding is a tribute to it. 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

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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
0:22.6	make taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with.
0:30.1	Yes, I've read the findings report. I haven't read the report from cover to cover, no. But I have read
0:33.9	the findings long.
0:43.3	Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:44.5	I'm Gemma Forte.
0:50.3	And I'm Marina Perkins and we're starting this trawl with a Twitter bustup that caught our attention.
0:56.0	So it all started as do so many of these things with a piece in the telegraph. And this one was written by one Felicity Mercer. So Felicity is the wife of Johnny Mercer, who is a Tory MP, and he represents
1:05.0	the good people of Plymouth. He is also an ex-army officer. And before we get into what his wife has been up to,
1:11.5	shall we start at the beginning with the seed that grew into an argument plant?
1:17.9	So if you're sitting comfortably, take a listen, because this is man of the people,
1:22.4	Johnny Mercer, talking to Kay Burley on Sky about food bank usage.
1:28.5	Food banks.
1:29.9	Look, these are personal decisions around, you know, how people are budgeting every month.
1:37.4	None of these things are black and white.
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