Musk and Farage Divorce - but who gets Lee Anderson?
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Trawl is back! Jemma and Marina are thrilled to be back behind their mics but could not have predicted the kind of fallout and controversy they'd be back with.
A certain tech bro, out of control billionaire, has been firing off tweets suggesting, amongst other things, that the US should exert economic pressure on the UK to get far-right agitator Tommy Robinson out of prison and that King Charles should dissolve Parliament, while crossing so many lines there aren't any lines left to cross.
At the heart of his rantings is a very serious and tragic issue, the vile grooming gangs who sexually abused and tortured young girls in places such as Rochdale and Rotherham and whose victims have been let down and failed by politicians of all flavours, the police, and councils. Jemma and Marina discuss why drawing attention to a topic which does deserve more focus isn't the same as wanting to interfere in a country's democratic processes. As for calling out Jess Phillips in the reprehensible manner that Musk has, they spend a bit of time discussing why that is so wrong and looking at reaction.
As for the drop mic moment when Musk declared that Farage should not be leading Reform a mere few hours after Farage had been sucking up to him on the Laura Kuenssberg show, the Trawl ladies have just the right clip to express how it made them feel.
And of course, a Trawl would not be a Trawl without pudding and under-rated tweets.
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to the beautiful game, Barclays is here for it all. |
| 0:05.5 | From packed stadiums, top of your lungs singing and last minute winners. |
| 0:11.1 | To Modi Grassroots pitches, half-time oranges and mum and dad stood on the sidelines. |
| 0:16.6 | For 25 years, Barclays has invested millions into community sports |
| 0:22.1 | because there is no football without grassroots football. |
| 0:26.9 | Search Barclays football to find out more. |
| 0:30.0 | Is this just the view of Elon Musk or is it the view of the wider administration |
| 0:35.8 | and the incoming President Donald Trump? |
| 0:41.6 | Hello and welcome to The Trul where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Marina Perkins. |
| 0:48.3 | And I'm Gemma Forte and we're back with two banging, blistering episodes. |
| 0:55.4 | Happy New Year, everybody. |
| 0:57.9 | And I tell you what, Marina and I've got a feeling that the trawl is going to be bigger and better in 2025. |
| 1:03.9 | Literally bigger after the Christmas clog. |
| 1:06.7 | In fact, I know this is a bit gross, but do you want to know how many calories I consumed over the break, Marina? |
| 1:11.9 | Oh, go on. You were keeping track? |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah, this many. |
| 1:15.0 | Somewhere between 700 billion and a trillion 300 million billion. |
| 1:21.1 | That's about right. |
| 1:22.3 | Oh, that's what it felt like. By the end, I was like, oh, I feel a bit cheweduder like I'm living in a chudercourt and of course |
| 1:28.7 | the thing that always follows Christmas as night follows day is and I proper cringe at this I really |
| 1:35.0 | don't like it it's that obligatory small talk that you're forced to endure when you engage with your |
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