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The Trawl

Ep 97: Seven Bins Sunak and Portacabin Fever

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It's been a particularly ludicrous week in Tory Britain. And that's saying something. Jemma and Marina plough through what feels like some sort of political fever dream. Starmer has announced he wants to renegotiate the Brexit deal, only we're pretty sure no one's told the EU and, unless we re-join the single market, is there any point just tinkering round the edges? Watch out everyone, Truss is on manoeuvres again. It's been a year since she absolutely devasted the British economy so she's returned to tell us all that she was right and what other things she'd love to do to damage it further.  Meanwhile, Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, has been extolling the virtues of children being educated in portacabins. Kids love it apparently, so that's alright then. Then, to round off a truly inept week, Sunak held a press conference to tell the British public that lots of things that were never going to happen are not going to happen. So in case you've been lying awake worrying about having seven bins, worry no more.  Finally, Marina and Jemma have been watching the Laura Kuenssburg show State of Chaos. They give their verdict and tell you the fantastic guest they've got for the next Trawl Meets...... Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreon https://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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.

0:30.3

Then when Brexiteers tried to create Singapore on the Thames,

0:34.4

the trust government instead delivered Argentina on the channel.

0:40.3

Hello and welcome to The Traw, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. I'm Jemma Forte.

0:49.3

And I'm Marina Perkins and politics. My word is kicking off.

0:53.3

And because we devoted the whole of the last episode to discussing the Russell Brown story,

0:58.4

we have got masses to cram into this one.

1:01.3

So we might go long for this one.

1:04.3

Also, forgive us.

1:06.7

We might take a week off next week, right?

1:08.6

I'm still not committed.

1:10.1

I still don't know if I can or not.

1:12.2

But maybe we should.

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