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The Trawl

Ep 98: Stuffing the North, Levelling Down

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Marina's back from holiday and the Trawl ladies barely know where to begin. They start with a quick GB News debrief - a roll call of presenters who've been suspended or sacked, and then it's straight into political nitty gritty.  Apparently we're a nation of drivers and Labour (who haven't been in power for 13 years) have waged a war on motorists? Jemma and Marina hadn't noticed this war and are also partial to using public transport - when it's running - so it's a mystifying statement, as is Sunak's claim that inflation is tax.  At least the Tories have got 'spades in the ground' everywhere. It's their new planned soundbite and they're really getting their money's worth. They're all saying it only no one, including Marina and Jemma, knows what it means. Plus, if there are spades in the ground, it's a huge shame they're not digging to finish HS2. Instead, Sunak's scrapping it, despite his mandate to 'level up.' It's a slap in the face for so many Northern cities who had hoped to have better connectivity and the costly destruction of wildlife and land that's happened for no good reason is mind boggling.  Still, if you're going to shaft the good people of Manchester, where better to do it than.....Manchester?  Pudding is matchy matchy because it's train themed. Enjoy! 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

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

Inflation is a tax. You just said it isn't. Inflation is a tax.

0:37.0

Hello, and welcome to The Trull, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.

0:42.1

I'm Marina Perkis.

0:43.5

And I'm Gemma Forte, and thank goodness you're back, Marina.

0:47.3

The Trawl is back.

0:48.0

We had a whole week off.

0:49.6

It was very, very discombobulating for me.

0:52.4

And doesn't it just feel like we desperately need to be back as well?

0:56.4

Yes, yes, 100%.

0:57.8

Can I just add, while I did miss not doing the trawl while I was away last week, do you know

1:03.4

what really helped?

1:04.7

What?

1:05.5

So I'm in this hotel in Cyprus and the two people from two different families stopped me to say that they listen to

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