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The Trawl

Ep 99: Tory conference goes post-truth

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jemma and Marina open the doors on the Tory conference and dive straight in, wearing full PPE, to the conference that had it all: lies, conspiracy theories and even a Prime Minister reported to the police for potential contempt of court. 'Inadvertent' contempt of court, obvs... It was all happening in Manchester, except ironically, the HS2 to Manchester.  Then the ladies mull over the party's sharp shift to the right, pausing to discuss a few of the most car-crash moments from Sunak to Susan - yes, Susan Hall, the Tory candidate for London Mayor who suggested that the Jewish community is frightened of Sadiq Khan, despite her playful response to a rainbow swastika posted on Twitter by a certain ex-GB News presenter. Could it be time to make lying in politics illegal? Jemma and Marina discuss this and the willingness of the Conservatives to trade in fear (of non-existent threats) to win votes. Then it's onto the real threat - Suella Braverman, whose victims now include guide dogs and the eviction of the most softly-spoken heckler of all time - from the party of free speech, no less.  Before the dessert cart of puddings served up in this week's bumper episode, perhaps grab a drink - and join the ladies for a new drinking game inspired by Penny Mordaunt's speech - all you need to do is take a sip every time you hear the word 'fight'...and prepare to get sozzled. 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.

0:30.1

We should stand up for things that are divisive and promote hatred.

0:38.1

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

0:43.0

I'm Gemma Forte.

0:44.4

And I'm Marina Perkis and my word after the week that was Tory conference.

0:52.8

Where are we supposed to start?

0:54.5

And can I just say, thank Christ, it's over.

0:57.3

I was genuinely a bit concerned about how to tackle this week's podcast because it was very grim.

1:03.8

And I think it's actually very hard to satirise or see the funny side of a lot of it.

1:08.6

So did you feel the same?

1:11.0

Absolutely. But also, I think they should shift it to the end of October, do it around Halloween

1:15.1

because it was sort of ghoulish, frightening, nightmarish, sort of, whew, felt sort of a little bit

1:21.3

scared every time I looked in. And also, you're right, because it started off and it was

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