Ep 87: Barge Disaster and Brexit Backlash
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
It's August so the news is slow and the papers and the debate shows are scraping barrels for topics. And yet, Marina and Jemma are confident they've still found enough content for two Trawls this week. This one begins with a few bad 'politician turned journo' takes, including one from Boris Johnson who insists on labelling Britain as 'Brexit Britain' which doesn't feel like a moniker to boast about frankly. Especially given that this week, even The Telegraph have reported that according to polls, a second referendum would be popular. It appears 'Bregret' is more than just a hashtag.
And then it's onto Small Boats Week which has been a disaster from beginning to end. Some migrants were moved onto the Bibby Stockholm barge, only to be moved back off again when it was reported that Legionella had been found onboard. But Sunak still has faith in Braverman.....apparently.
It's a pretty dismal tale of utter incompetence. One conservative councillor compared the govt handling of the entire episode to Fawlty Towers. Marina and Jemma discuss, and despair.
Pudding is appropriately themed.
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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, but Tax Act can help you get them done. |
| 0:27.5 | Tax Act, let's get them over with. |
| 0:30.1 | It's very tough, and I'm sorry there will be some deaths. |
| 0:33.6 | I truly am sorry about that. |
| 0:35.4 | We should not let them land. |
| 0:42.4 | Hello, and welcome to The Trawl, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkis. And |
| 0:48.5 | Jim and I have been thinking about how August is a bit of a funny old time for The Trawl, really, |
| 0:52.5 | because Parliament's in recess, which means no PMQs till September. |
| 0:57.4 | Most MPs are on their holidays. |
| 0:59.3 | Everyone's inboxes are littered with out-of-office replies and some are traditionally a much slower news time across the board. |
| 1:06.0 | And yet, have no fear, because after a good old troll between us, we found enough stuff of interest for two trolls in one week as per usual. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, we actually have. And actually, this always happens as well, just at time of record, something a little bit juicy happens. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm like, oh, hang on a minute. I hadn't even made a note of this guess who marina because i know you've been |
| 1:27.8 | putting the kids to bed guess who sunak has quote tweeted today on x go on uh jeremy clarkson |
| 1:38.2 | because that's appropriate i i saw i think i know jeremy clartson's tweet is it the one where |
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