EP 79: Bye bye elections and Wootton earth is going on?
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Jemma and Marina discuss the devastating Conservative by-election results - or as GB News optimisically put it:Â
Rishi Sunak AVOIDS horror triple by-election wipe out. Ok hun...Â
Johnny Mercer continues his run of revealing himself to be a massive bell by aluding to the 25 year-old Keir Mather who took the Selby seat as an "inbetweener" - apparently he's too young for people to relate to him, to know what it's like with a job and kids. Not like our super relatable man-of-the-people, married to a billionaire's daughter PM, Rishi Sunak...
And then it's on to the stench surrunding GB News. Then a pudding that perfectly encapsulated why whether you like it or not, even if you think you don’t do politics, actually…you do.Â
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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. |
| 0:27.5 | Tax Act, let's get them over with. |
| 0:30.1 | You have loony doctors, loony GPs, |
| 0:32.3 | and you have loony scientists, |
| 0:34.0 | but they are in the minority, |
| 0:35.5 | and I'm afraid they are the ones that are causing this |
| 0:38.5 | debate which is totally artificial. |
| 0:43.5 | Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm Marina Perkis and I'm Gemma Forte and Marina do you ever see a tweet and think, ooh, that's going to age badly? |
| 0:58.1 | Often. |
| 0:59.1 | Often, but I've seen so many of late. |
| 1:02.5 | And it's because of, obviously, there's a lot of beef surrounding a certain GB news presenter. |
| 1:08.5 | And there's lots of people coming out to sort of defend him or lots of people |
| 1:12.5 | actually came out saying they were really looking forward to seeing him back on GB News again after his |
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