Nine Million Quid & a One-Way Ticket to Dubai
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This Trawl kicks off with a little bit of Cilla Black, just like the old days. Then Jemma and Marina take a festive detour to check in on how Rossid Woods is coping with the season (spoiler: not brilliantly), and enjoy a very relatable warning about over-committing to plans.
Then… unable to put it off any longer, they dive into the political storm of the week.
Reform UK has received a record-breaking £9 million donation, the biggest political donation in British history. Marina and Jemma wade through what’s been reported and the questions now being raised by Labour and the Lib Dems about transparency, potential conflicts of interest, and whether the Electoral Commission should investigate.
Also on Farage's plate are the ongoing alleged racism controversies, and fresh allegations about campaign spending.
Meanwhile, Charlie Mullins is explaining patriotism from the runway to Dubai and encouraging Brits to become economic migrants.
Marina and Jemma unpack the week’s biggest political messes so you don’t have to. Bring snacks. And a stiff drink.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Nigel, one more time, just for the record, who's paying for this operation now for all your bodyguards? |
| 0:04.2 | Russians. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello and welcome to The Trall, where we scroll through socials so you can have your hands |
| 0:21.0 | free to get on with living and still be in the know with what's happening on the internet. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte. And if you're a new trawler, firstly, welcome. Lovely to |
| 0:31.7 | have you along. And secondly, you won't know that for quite a long period of trawl history, |
| 0:38.9 | we often used to feature clips of Silla Black singing. I don't really know why. I can't really remember how it started. |
| 0:46.7 | You were definitely behind it. But a few of our very loyal listeners who've been with us since day one |
| 0:52.7 | have started to notice that she seems to |
| 0:54.9 | have been retired. And for some reason, that bothers you. So I just thought, fine, to reassure you |
| 1:02.1 | that that was not a deliberate decision. Let's just have her kick off the episode and then we'll |
| 1:05.4 | get into all the politics beef. So here she is, Arsilla, trying to emulate for no good reason. |
| 1:12.6 | Carmen Miranda. |
| 1:16.5 | Oh, the weather outside is brightwood and the fire is so delightful. |
| 1:25.0 | And since we've no place to go |
| 1:27.5 | let it know |
| 1:29.6 | let it snow |
| 1:30.4 | I like you very much |
| 1:34.4 | Oh I did like that Gemma |
| 1:36.2 | I do like a bit of festive cheer |
| 1:38.3 | At the top of our |
| 1:39.6 | At the top of our episodes |
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