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The Trawl

The Trawl Meets: Jovan Owusu-Nepaul

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Jovan stood against Nigel Farage in the last election as the candidate for Labour and sadly lost. At twenty seven years old he's the antithesis of Farage in every way and would certainly have gone about things differently had he won. He would have spent lots of his time in Clacton for instance. But, it wasn't to be and, as Jemma points out, the whole episode will be difficult for right minded voters in Clacton to listen to because the man is an inspiration, a force for good and passionate about affecting change for all the right reasons. 

Find out what happened on doorsteps as he campaigned, what his encounters with Farage were like and where he buys his clothes which have even caught the eye of GQ. 

Plus, Marina has a prediction. You heard it here first!

Enjoy!

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Created and Produced by Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Edited by Max Carrey



Transcript

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0:00.0

I just don't understand why people would vote somebody in who is so obviously using Clacton as a vehicle to further his own interest.

0:11.6

Hello and welcome to The Trawle Meets. I'm Marina Perkis.

0:18.8

And I'm Gemma Forte and on the Trawl meets, Marina and I get to chat with someone we admire and or find interesting. In this case, it's both. We'll ask them for their underrated tweets, discuss political topics they're passionate about and explore their unique experience of and views on social media. And today, the troll meets someone who exploded onto the scene

0:40.4

when he found himself head to head with Nigel Farage.

0:45.0

He is just 27.

0:46.7

He was the Labour candidate for Clacton

0:48.6

and quite possibly one of the sharpest dresses we know.

0:53.1

Welcome to the troll, Jovan, I will suit Nepal.

0:56.5

Morning, morning.

0:57.5

So nice to have you here.

1:00.6

Right, so before we get into the beef, which is the very, we definitely want to get to that.

1:05.3

And the attempts from Farage and all of that lot to try and shame and shut you down.

1:10.9

First, I want to say, it's so refreshing to see someone as young as you.

1:16.0

You're actually younger in the flesh than you are on the screen in the papers.

1:20.5

It's so nice to see someone as young as you in politics.

1:23.2

So what was it that made you choose this path?

1:26.7

Yeah, I mean, I've always been interested, involved in politics, and I just felt like

1:32.5

young people's voices weren't really considered.

1:35.2

A lot of things that our generation were experiencing tuition fees, cutting EMA, the cost

1:41.1

to buy a house.

1:43.5

There's so many things that just kind of impacted us.

1:45.8

And I was like, well, who's going to be the voice for our generation and thought, well, I can't expect anyone else to do it, so I have to do it myself.

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