Ep 83: A license to drill & 30p Lee overspills...

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The ladies open with a brief, but apt, reaction to the continuous wall-to-wall coverage of Farage and his bank account woes, and touch upon the high-calibre nature of some recent GB News bookings. Then it's a trip down memory lane to Cop 26 - when the UK hosted and championed a global summit committed to achieving net zero. Fast-forward to three Prime Ministers and one Uxbridge and S.Ruislip by-election later, and things have changed somewhat... The ladies discuss the decision by Rishi Sunak to give the go-ahead to hundreds of new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea. This is apparently all to do with energy security and nothing to do with Sunak's family business ties... But worry not about the rapid heating up of our only planet, because as Dave Frost says: we can adapt. Climate change herd immunity, anyone? Then it's onto the latest golden nuggets from Tory MP, 30p Lee, who shows us what happens when the right tries to be funny, and also what happens when Lee fails to sense-check his tweets before hitting send. Finished off with a delightful clip from the satirist, Matilda Thorpe and she too shares a sobering tale of when her child returned home from one of those BLOODY WOKE universities... Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast 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 make
0:23.0	taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with.
0:30.1	We're not online to meet any of those targets, and by burning more fossil fuel, we're going to push
0:35.6	them further beyond reach.
0:45.5	Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:46.5	I'm Gemma Forte.
0:58.5	And I'm Marina Perkis and somehow one man and his bank account is still dominating the UK news cycle. Still, such is the state of the press in this country. In fact, if you're anything like me, this is what you feel like
1:03.4	if you turned on the news to see frog-faced Farage winging again.
1:08.6	Shut the fuck up.
1:16.8	Shut all the way the fuck up until you reach the top of shut-fuck Mountain where there are no more fuck-ups to shut.
1:22.3	Too bloody.
1:24.7	Right, he has had too much coverage. And writer James Felton tweeted,
1:30.9	Hello and welcome to the UK, where people can't afford to live. If you're just joining us,
1:36.2	we are in week four of discussing our top story. Nigel Farage might have to bank at Halifax.
1:42.4	And speaking of Halifax, right, before we move on from Farage
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