Ep 84: Vitriol for Vorderman, Woke Watch & Sunak Strife

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jemma and Marina have noticed that Carol Vorderman is getting under the skin of all the right people. In fact, the more Carol holds the government to account, the more the right-wing press sharpen their pencils. The more Carol spits facts, the more vitriol she’s exposed to on social media. In this trawl Marina and Jemma ponder why and read out some tweets which wholly champion her efforts. It’s called balance – quite the shocker in this pod. Then, to The Daily Mail we go, because they’ve published their ‘Woke List’ – yes, that’s honestly a thing, and it’s quite the hall of fame of people who are largely decent and great. Jemma and Marina wonder what the opposite sort of list would look like and are pretty sure it would include Sunak. Sunak has been scampering around the country in jets and choppers determinedly wrecking things and when challenged, is completely belligerent about his travel habits. There are some joyous underrated tweets as per and pudding. Enjoy! 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 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	Carol Horderman isn't in that woke list?
0:31.9	No, which I'm very surprised about.
0:36.9	Hello, and welcome to The Trull, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:42.0	I'm Marina Perkis.
0:43.3	And I'm Gemma Forte and on today's Trawl, we need to talk about Carol.
0:59.3	I wonder if she ever gets sick of that.
1:01.8	I must, must ask her one day.
1:04.1	Do you know what, would you have you had your own jingle?
1:06.3	I think I'd love to have my own jingle.
1:27.9	We are, of course, talking about Carol Vorderman, the woman who in recent times has been pretty much standing in for our lacklustra opposition by using her gigantic social media platforms to call out all the corruption, the incompetence and the negligence of this Tory government.
1:44.9	Yeah, and the reason we wanted to show some solidarity in this episode is because she's taking some pretty hardcore flack, which isn't ideal, but it does show us that Tory MPs and, you know, the usual right-wing rags and shills and whatever, they are threatened by her because she's got a very compelling way about her. She's no bullshit. She's no nonsense. She's got
1:49.8	this very fact-based approach to calling this government out and is cutting through. And the thing is,
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