UK Stagnates, Labour Irritates and Marina gets Irate...

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jemma is fresh off a flight back from her holiday for this episode, so what better way to get her back to into the swing of things than to discuss Reform's dodgy new appointment, who once said Hitler was "brilliant" and described Bashar al-Assad as "gentle by nature". He sounds just wonderful.

Next, a moment of commiseration as Jemma and Marina describe how the UK can no longer be considered a rich country due to collapsing living standards for the poorest 40%. Do you know what would come in really handy here? A Govt that gave a toss about inequality...instead we have Labour doing their best Tory impression with the latest welfare cuts.

Jemma and Marina don't hold back with their views and Marina has some choice words for Starmer (on the off chance he's listening) before talk turns to why we keep hitting the poorest when we have millionaires literally asking to be taxed more. They even put their message on a big old bus...because that worked out so well last time.

Finally, talk turns to the US where the arrogance of people's ignorance is quite breathtaking, especially as far as the Statue of Liberty is concerned. Then see what you make of this episode's cryptic underrated clip, followed by a billionaire-based pudding from comedian, Rhys James.

And if you want to check out the underrated clip of the week and comments for yourself, here you go:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGrJVu4x_eG/

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0:00.0	And it's just a bit of a frustrating thing that the disabled people and poor people seem to be the price for bad economic decisions.
0:09.2	Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:14.0	I'm Gemma Forte.
0:15.5	And I'm Marina Perkis and you'll be glad to hear that Gemma has landed.
0:20.3	She's on Terraferma.
0:21.9	She's away from any pontoons and distracting Plinky Plunk music.
0:26.2	Yes, I am.
0:27.3	And for those of you that didn't listen to the last episode,
0:30.1	I was away and it all got a bit out of hand.
0:34.2	I was supposed to be trawling in the hotel room.
0:36.3	It didn't happen.
0:37.1	And yeah, as Marina's just referenced, it was, yeah, it was mad, actually. I don't recommend recording
0:45.3	a podcast in the reception of a hotel with people looking at you. It's just weird. Anyway,
0:50.9	I'm back, I'm back. And there were a few things I was looking forward to coming back to seeing my friends, seeing my family, seeing Marina's choosy little face looking at me, doing the trawl in proper surroundings, a cup of tea.
1:03.7	And what else?
1:04.9	Oh, yeah, there's the news, isn't there?
1:07.5	Have to head first back into all of it.
1:09.4	And what have I missed?
1:10.7	Oh, wonderful.
1:11.8	It appears reform. I've appointed a Nazi. Marina Tell me, isn't so. Welcome home. Welcome home, Gemma.
1:20.0	Cool. Yeah, so Prippa Crea from the Guardian wrote. Exclusive. Reform UK general election
1:26.8	candidate who said Hitler was brilliant at inspiring
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