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The Trawl

Ep 80: Rip-off boats, rip-off degrees & stolen kidneys...

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7867 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jemma and Marina open with a toast to the 10th anniversary of the Same Sex Marriage Act - the way Cameron and Sunak have been tweeting about it would make you think the Conservatives are to praise for it - spoiler: they're not. 


Then it's on to the trade deal of the century - the £12 trillion trade boost to the UK via the CPTPP! What joy...the ladies ponder what the Conservatives will spend it all on..except it's not £12 trillion, and it's already been spent. Winning. 


Next they discuss the Govt of fiscal responsibility's latest purchase which delivers incredible value for money for the tax payer - quite literally: incredible. 


Then it's onto the thread that had Jemma and Marina in stitches (ironically), because whatever you do, don't take medical advice from Boris Johnson's ex, Petronella Wyatt...


Finished off with a pudding from @Exploding_Heads, and poor Colin from Portsmouth is furious with the by-election results.


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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

How much impact is it really going to have?

0:32.2

You're saying that it's going to bring in 1.8 billion pounds in 10 years' time.

0:35.9

I mean, the Man City scored value is about 5 billion pounds.

0:39.9

It's put that in content.

0:44.1

Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media. So you don't have to.

0:49.5

I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkis. And let's kick off this trawl with a little toast to the 10th anniversary

0:56.1

of the same-sex marriage act, which was this week. It came about because of tireless activism

1:03.5

from LGBT plus people all over the country. Yep. And Q conservatives like David Cameron, Mr. Shiny Face,

1:12.7

and Lego Elvis, Rishi Sunak, coming out to almost try and take credit for it.

1:20.0

Cameron called it his proudest achievement as PM.

1:24.1

Was it not the referendum, Dave?

1:26.9

Because that was great. And also also was he doing this from his shed

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