Reform Rises and Farage Rants: No More Working from Home?
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This Trawl begins with a theological question inspired by Trump's wildly disrespectful sharing of an AI generated image of himself dressed as....the Pope. Yes, that's the point we've reached folks, the President of the United States is playing fancy dress for all the world to see. Marina's Catholic mother is not impressed!
After a somewhat un Trawl like discussion about religion, the Trawl ladies move on to the latest in UK politics and the results from the local elections, which include Darren Grimes of GB News fame becoming a councillor (but not really understanding his job description) and Dame Andrea Jenkyns becoming Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire. Andrea wants to start off by firing all the Diversity officers in her council, only there aren't any.
There are plenty of clips and tweets as you'd imagine, plus the backlash from Farage's speech where he has said he'll ban working from home. Marina and Jemma discuss why this is a fundamentally terrible idea for a myriad of reasons.
They also talk through how Labour might, should and probably will react. Is a Reform victory at the next election a very real possibility? It certainly feels that way though a week is a long time in politics let alone a few years.
Pudding is by the brilliant Cody Dahler
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| 0:00.0 | I say no to putting people in hotels. Tents are good enough for France. They should be good |
| 0:05.9 | enough for here in Britain. Hello and welcome to the trawl where we scroll through social |
| 0:13.4 | media so you don't have to. Oh, I'm Gemma Forte. Well done Gemma. And I'm Marina Perkins. |
| 0:21.4 | And today we're going to be trawling through the fallout from the local UK elections. |
| 0:27.0 | And then in Friday's episode, we'll be touching on the latest from Palestine |
| 0:30.5 | and the impact of Louis Theroux's documentary about Israeli settlers. |
| 0:34.8 | Plus, of course, we'll be giving you your weekly dose of Trump bat shittery, |
| 0:40.1 | which includes the White House posting out a picture |
| 0:43.3 | of convicted fellow Donald Trump, |
| 0:45.5 | dressed as the Pope. |
| 0:47.2 | And not to mention, when Trump turned communist. |
| 0:51.6 | Oh, he did. |
| 0:52.7 | Now, there are some words that you probably wouldn't have betted on hearing way back in what, |
| 0:58.1 | I think it was 2004 when Trumpington was presenting the apprentice, |
| 1:02.4 | at which point, A, the idea that he was going to be president was pretty preposterous, |
| 1:06.1 | and then the thought that any president of the United States would ever be so sacrilegious would |
| 1:12.6 | have been absolutely wild. And yet here we are. |
| 1:17.2 | See Catholics, we're not so happy about the image of you looking like the Pope. |
| 1:22.1 | Oh, I see. You mean they can't take a joke. You don't mean the Catholics. You mean the fake news |
| 1:27.0 | media. Not the Catholics loved it.. You mean the fake news media. |
| 1:29.3 | Not the Catholics loved it. |
| 1:31.6 | I had nothing to do with it. |
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