0:00

And I think it's really hard to see

0:02

able people pointing the finger at a group

0:04

of people and saying they get back to

0:06

work when they really wish they could. Hello

0:12

and welcome to The Troll, where we scroll

0:14

through social media so you don't have to.

0:16

I'm Marina Prakas. And I'm

0:18

Gemma Forte. And over in the

0:20

States, Donald Trump is in court

0:23

defending himself against allegations that he

0:25

paid Stormy Daniels hush money. Because

0:28

of course, where else would one of the contenders

0:30

for leader of the three world be other

0:32

than defending himself in a courtroom? And

0:36

guys, Trump is actually trumping.

0:40

Listen to this clip from the Midas

0:42

Touch Network. What

0:45

I'm hearing is that take

0:48

it for what it's worth, but that

0:50

Donald Trump is actually farting in the

0:52

courtroom and that it's very stinky around

0:55

him. It's a putrid odor in the

0:57

courtroom and that Trump's lawyers are

0:59

like repulsed by the scent and the

1:01

smell. And I'm not I'm not just

1:03

saying that to be like, oh, funny,

1:06

funny. I'm actually you know, we have

1:08

good sources there. And I'm

1:10

hearing it from actual credible people that

1:12

as he's kind of falling asleep, he

1:15

is actually passing gas and

1:18

that his lawyers are really struggling

1:21

with the smell. Oh,

1:24

I mean, you know, that's true, don't you? You

1:26

just know it. Yeah, it's

1:28

been reported by other people is

1:30

so disgusting. You know how in

1:32

boots, they always do like celebs

1:34

aftershaves and ranges of perfume and

1:36

everything? He could just read Trump

1:38

and just call it putrid putrid.

1:42

Putrid is a very strong word when it

1:45

comes to describing a smell as well. Very

1:47

strong. Anyway, cut

1:49

to outside the courtroom, which wasn't

1:52

quite the hive of activity and

1:55

Trump support that farty pounce was

1:57

probably expecting. Here's a clip from

1:59

the Good News. good liars who went outside

2:01

the courtroom to capture the moment. Trump

2:04

said that a lot of people were to come here to support him.

2:06

We're going to take a look, see how many people are here. We're

2:09

expecting there to be a lot of Trump supporters

2:11

here today. There's a lot of people, right? Yeah,

2:13

it's a big day. We are here outside day

2:16

five of the Trump hush money trial here, and

2:18

there are two of supporters

2:21

here of Donald Trump. One,

2:24

two, supporters here supporting

2:26

Donald Trump. Big, big

2:28

turnout as we were expecting.

2:30

As Donald Trump promised, there'd be a lot of

2:32

people here to show their support. So one,

2:36

two, oh wait, sorry,

2:38

three. There

2:41

you go. That's probably quite reassuring. Do

2:43

you think that this is where

2:45

the saying, liar, liar, punch on

2:48

fire, derives from? Actual

2:50

Trumpington. Oh, possibly.

2:52

Maybe the writer John Niven

2:55

tweeted, we need Jimmy Kimmel to do

2:57

a bit on this, and then Trump

2:59

will have to respond. They were

3:01

strong farts. Many people

3:03

are saying the strongest in recent

3:05

times, perhaps ever. John

3:09

Neill tweeted, this

3:11

explains why so many big guys,

3:13

like tough guys who come up

3:15

to him have tears in their

3:17

eyes. George

3:22

Conway wrote, not that anyone

3:24

should do anything with this information,

3:26

but flatulent and fraudulent do rhyme.

3:29

And Ash wrote, he's gaslighting

3:31

them. Moving

3:40

on from Trumpety Trump. Trumpety

3:43

Trump. Trumpety

3:45

Trump. Trumpety Trump. We're

3:49

going to have to introduce the

3:52

latest Tory policy of cruelty, basically,

3:54

which is sort of two pronged.

3:57

So he, he being our prime minister, he's a very good

3:59

leader. Miniature, Rishi Sunak, pledged

4:02

to remove benefits for people not

4:04

taking jobs after 12 months. And

4:09

he said, this is the line he actually said, he said,

4:11

we can't allow fraudsters to

4:13

exploit the natural compassion and

4:16

generosity of the British people. I mean,

4:18

my head almost exploded when I heard

4:20

him say that. And then

4:23

the second prong of cruelty is

4:25

that he's also going to strip GPs

4:28

of the right to sign people

4:30

off sick. The idea being,

4:32

I guess that goes to

4:35

a third party private

4:37

provider to decide if

4:40

you are fit to work or not. Yeah, that

4:42

was the bit that really appalled me

4:44

the most. But again, it's almost

4:46

like with this government, you know, they know

4:49

that they've got the election on the horizon.

4:51

And they used

4:53

to blame foreigners for all of our

4:55

woes, they made us Brexit, they can't

4:57

do that anymore. There's been a lot

5:00

of blaming refugees. And now, you know,

5:02

they go back to the old trope

5:04

of benefit scroungers, but without ever have

5:06

without ever trying to fix anything in

5:08

society without ever trying to improve anything,

5:10

it's always punitive. It's

5:13

never constructive. It's never

5:15

innovative. It's never clever. It's

5:17

always just picking on the

5:20

weakest and that particular bit

5:22

just made

5:24

me feel a bit anxious,

5:26

let alone people who are

5:29

actually suffering from anxiety themselves.

5:31

Ben Kentish, who's an LBC

5:33

presenter wrote, you

5:35

could sort out the state of NHS

5:37

mental health services, or you

5:40

could tell people needing them that

5:42

they're the problem. Henry

5:44

Morris tweeted, surely the simple step would

5:47

be to follow the Rwanda model and

5:49

just pass a law that says

5:51

that sick people are fit to work.

5:54

Yeah, if they got another term, that's what

5:56

they'd be doing. And the thing is, coming from

5:58

him as well, it's like how? The between tribunal

6:01

right he said i'm he saw

6:03

conflate depression with the i'm that

6:05

so tough bits of everyday life

6:07

and I just think how can

6:09

you have you ever known hardship

6:11

for she said that have you

6:13

ever known it just under the

6:15

have understood what it means to

6:17

feels like so debilitating me, anxious

6:19

or depressed or to have a

6:21

physical disability that. Means

6:24

you can't even see as desk without

6:26

being in pain. I just think how

6:29

dad, yeah, how. Dare you do

6:31

that? And this decision seats outsourced

6:33

the disability decision making. This is

6:35

dumped about when he is that.

6:37

By the way there was a

6:39

company brewing called a Sauce and

6:41

it did not end well. People

6:44

ended up taking their own lives

6:46

because of these decisions because people

6:48

she pees what consulted people, Psychiatry

6:50

swamp consulted and then to been

6:52

Bruce. So this is separate ourselves

6:54

but because it the palm of

6:56

Work and pensions makes these disability

6:59

assessment Remember Stephen. Smith. he was

7:01

very famous. picture of sorry

7:03

famous in my mind And

7:05

this guy. He's sixty four.

7:08

He's. And Macys tits and he's in hospital.

7:10

And he's I send messages. Fine

7:15

and the Department for Work and Pensions

7:17

found him sit to work and he

7:19

was forced to leave hospital to fight

7:21

that decision. And Am and

7:24

he dies. He do it

7:26

so I just think. He

7:28

got the Dwp screwing up. I will really

7:30

now sign that we're gonna put that. Decision.

7:33

A. The decision into the hands

7:36

of a prize that. On

7:38

a private provided that doesn't know anything

7:40

about you and I'm an author who

7:42

cannot contract that is a thing. Serco

7:44

one of the last people that got

7:46

it he we know is i think

7:48

related to him. Churchill's

7:51

grandson but er visit who

7:53

the Tory mp. I

7:55

could be emphasis, maybe emphasis on. and sometimes

7:58

when we talk about things. You.

8:01

Have to acknowledge sit there is

8:03

a sort of trees in things

8:05

that then allows. Them to capitalize

8:08

on that, right? So for instance,

8:10

when we talk about immigration you

8:12

know is just naive. Not to

8:14

pretend that for some people living

8:17

in certain towns. That sounds are

8:19

bit blighted by the fact that there's you

8:21

know, hundreds of messages up the road and

8:23

that might feel a bit intimidating. Know the

8:25

rest of it right, as is true, And

8:28

similarly with this right there will be people

8:30

who goes well I know a council estate

8:32

or I know somewhere where there's in a

8:34

people that have been on benefits and then

8:37

the daughter's on benefit and then the kids

8:39

gone benefit and it's like becomes generational by

8:41

and it becomes an almost like a bit

8:43

as a poacher but you see I would

8:46

look at that and co how to use

8:48

fix that. Percentage. Which

8:50

is only a percentage and then that many

8:52

many many many other types of people who

8:54

just find themselves the need cannot get a

8:56

job that suited to that are ill and

8:59

all respite might be noticed That says what

9:01

you what they're doing is that they make

9:03

up the everybody's been on benefits. For a long

9:05

time to scrounge right which is a horrible. Word Anyway,

9:07

so the element were that might

9:10

be too. I. Feel

9:12

like is people still need to types of

9:14

health. Visitors. Attack how it's basically

9:16

a green The However, I agree with that.

9:18

How you get Aids and how do you

9:20

encourage a motivate and seat at work to

9:23

be really beneficial and eat? Improve the lives

9:25

in a different way and it is worth

9:27

s And like doing X lines at night.

9:29

Ominous. Let me to stop you right there,

9:31

right? Because this is where and I'm not

9:33

saying people's I'm not saying it's right. The

9:35

people choose benefits as as a lifestyle. Choice

9:37

right as a snack and he

9:39

do terms it. but for those

9:41

people, not the. Would. Not the sick, not

9:44

the that the disabled, not the you know the

9:46

people who are actually fit to work. Quite a

9:48

test so much into this person and imagine that

9:50

you have been a bit of a on a

9:52

star. In the system because you don't want to work. And.

9:55

Then after twelve months, you'd benefits of

9:57

reputation when you're gonna be. forced to

9:59

work you're going to be forced to work

10:01

for a job which is likely going

10:03

to be minimum wage, which

10:06

we know because of the cost of living crisis

10:08

and we know because the amount of people in

10:10

destitution and the amount of people on universal credit,

10:12

even when they're in full tie work, they're still

10:15

not going to be able to make ends

10:17

meet. They're still probably going to have to claim off

10:19

the state. And that's where I

10:21

think it's because of that

10:24

social contract which has been broken, are

10:26

we surprised that people aren't motivated to

10:29

go to work and to give up

10:31

their time? I don't know what

10:33

they're doing, not in work, but to

10:35

give up their time to still be poor. Yeah.

10:38

And so that's what I meant right

10:40

at the beginning of all of this

10:43

is like the lack of imagination and

10:45

ever improving things because we know history

10:47

tells us that when you invest in

10:49

people and you invest in communities, things

10:52

improve. That's just a fact. So

10:54

yeah, it's just this punishment all the

10:57

time is spreading. And the

10:59

other thing to say is obviously people like Rishi

11:01

Sunak can get depressed, right? Rich people can

11:03

have terrible anxiety and depression and all the rest of it,

11:06

but like they will

11:08

be accessing private health care and they'll go to

11:10

the top of the list and fling all of

11:12

their resources on it. And also this

11:14

idea that middle class people can

11:16

afford that is bollocks at the

11:18

moment as well. Like I know plenty of people who might have

11:20

teenagers who've got X, Y and Z going on or whatever, and

11:23

they'll think, well,

11:26

God, I can't get seen or they're not top of

11:28

the list or it's going to be 10 months before

11:30

we get any help and all the rest

11:32

of it. They're looking to private, like even to get diagnoses

11:34

and things, you're talking not hundreds of pounds, you're

11:37

talking thousands. People do

11:39

not have that disposable income, but

11:41

you do if it's someone like Rishi Sunak. And

11:43

they don't connect the dots because also why do you think so

11:45

many people are out of action? So just

11:48

take my husband for one example. Anyone

11:50

that listens to The Troll knows that about seven weeks ago, he

11:52

got a prolapse disc in his back and

11:54

it's very debilitating and he couldn't work. He

11:57

has private health care, it's a really good story.

12:00

of private health care through his work. As

12:02

a result, he was able to within

12:05

a weekend MRI scan, the MRI scan

12:07

showed what it was and straight away

12:09

he could have targeted treatment knowing what

12:11

it was, physio, consultations, etc. He's now

12:13

back at work. If

12:15

he had not had that private health care, he

12:18

would be still waiting, likely still waiting

12:20

for that MRI scan, still unable to

12:22

know. And by the way, before the

12:24

MRI scan, he was scared as

12:26

to what exercises to do because he didn't want to make

12:29

it worse. Right? So as soon as he had

12:31

that MRI scan, everything was pulled into focus

12:33

and that recovery was quick and he's back

12:35

at work. But you see what I mean?

12:37

You fix the services that people desperately need

12:39

to fix themselves. But no, let's just do

12:42

some performative cruelty to win some bloody votes

12:44

from the really, really mean-spirited people who

12:46

can't bear the idea of someone getting

12:48

something that they're not. I know,

12:51

it's pathetic. I think we

12:53

should listen now to a clip

12:55

of Natasha Devon. Now, Natasha Devon,

12:59

if you haven't listened, go and find the

13:01

tall meets Natasha Devon. She's so worth a

13:03

listen. In fact, we were out with Marina's

13:05

sister on Saturday and her sister was saying

13:07

she really enjoyed that one. She's fantastic. She's

13:09

a presenter in LBC as well, but she

13:11

used to be the mental health flop for

13:13

the government. She isn't anymore. She got sacked.

13:15

Before they sacked her. She got sacked because

13:17

she's great. Here she

13:19

is talking to Femi. I

13:22

think the problem is that Rishi

13:25

Sinaka Melstride have taken two

13:28

things which are kind of true, but

13:31

pivoted them so they can use

13:33

them for nefarious purpose. So it

13:35

is true that working

13:38

and structure can be good for your

13:40

mental health. However, forcing

13:43

someone to work when

13:45

they are unable to do so, when they've reached a point

13:47

with their mental health where they're unable to do

13:49

so is absolutely catastrophic. The

13:52

other thing that he

13:55

says in the clip,

13:57

too often medicating life's everyday challenges.

14:00

I think what he's doing there

14:03

is interpreting something which I've heard

14:05

psychologists and psychiatrists and

14:07

experts in this field argue a lot, which

14:10

is mental ill health is

14:12

this huge umbrella term. And

14:16

it can be used pretty much by anyone who

14:18

is in psychological distress. And

14:21

your response, if somebody is

14:23

experiencing exam stress, for example,

14:26

would be different if

14:28

somebody was going through an

14:30

episode of psychosis because they had

14:33

bipolar disorder. Those two things

14:35

require a different response. Points

14:38

very well made there by Natasha.

14:41

And yeah, again, what Rishi Sinak

14:44

does is he, the brushstrokes,

14:46

the way that he talks is

14:49

just blanket, isn't it? Everybody's

14:51

on benefit at this point. Cut it

14:53

off. If you'll say, go work, it

14:55

will really do you good. It's like,

14:57

really, mate? Yeah. And

15:00

he's also sort of pushing a narrative, which is

15:02

that we are sort of more of a signal

15:04

culture than we've ever been before. And actually context

15:06

is really important here. So, Torsten

15:08

Bell tweeted that sickness absence is up,

15:11

yes, it is post pandemic at 2.6%.

15:15

But he wrote, let's not overdo

15:17

it because the share of us

15:19

sick each day is still way down on the 1990s

15:21

when it was 3.1%. So

15:25

3.1% in 1995. And

15:28

also, you know how it's always like young people sort of

15:31

targeted as being the people that are inactive or

15:33

not working because of mental ill

15:35

health. Actually, the highest

15:38

rates are for women age

15:40

50 to 64. And

15:43

mental health is a declining reason for short

15:45

term sickness absence. But that's not what comes

15:47

across, is it? Yeah, why

15:49

let the truth get in the way when you're

15:51

trying to be really cruel? Yeah,

15:54

it's unbelievable. And as you say, health is

15:56

wealth. You haven't invested in the health system.

15:59

So, of course, people... are more sick and

16:01

then yes correct then you haven't got a

16:03

very healthy workforce, you bell.

16:06

Dr. Rachel Clarke tweeted, from

16:08

the government whose greatest hits

16:10

include the meteoric rise in food

16:12

bank use, fuel poverty, kids too cold

16:14

and hungry to learn, falling life expectancy

16:17

and the deliberate destruction of the

16:19

NHS, victim blaming and pure

16:21

naked cruelty. And Pippa

16:24

Crear, the journalist, pointed out, the

16:26

single biggest thing a government could do

16:28

to reduce the number of economically inactive

16:31

people who are long term sick is

16:33

sort out our mental health services. Two

16:35

million people in England

16:38

alone are on NHS mental

16:40

health waiting lists. Wow,

16:42

that's two million people who can't access the help

16:44

that they need. There you go

16:46

straight away, two million people, but

16:48

he doesn't care. It's not about getting people

16:50

back to work. And we know that the

16:52

proof of that is because in the same

16:54

week as this cruel announcement, he

16:57

has just scrapped a scheme, it was £100

16:59

million work and health programme

17:03

which is operated in England and Wales. And

17:05

he's just scrapped it. And this scheme literally

17:08

existed to try and

17:10

get disabled people back to work.

17:13

How do you how do you

17:15

square that with what he's trying to say about getting

17:17

people back to work? Oh bullshit. Yeah,

17:19

he's full of shit, isn't he? Somebody

17:22

who absolutely isn't, somebody who really always

17:24

sounds like a force for good when

17:26

he's on telly is Dr. Amir Khan,

17:28

who was speaking about all of this

17:30

on GMB. Do

17:32

I think there are some people who

17:34

are getting sick notes that don't need

17:36

sick notes and could do something? Yes,

17:39

absolutely. But I feel the message,

17:41

and I've been using for many years, that

17:43

is the exception rather than the rather than

17:45

the rule. And people with the largest sick

17:47

notes who could do anything to be able

17:50

to work. They're in pain, they're really sick,

17:52

they're disabled. And I think it's really hard

17:54

to see able people pointing their finger at

17:56

a group of people and saying, get back

17:58

to work. they really wish they could,

18:01

but they can't. They can't. Unbelievable.

18:05

And good for him on that, for spelling it

18:07

out like that, gets many

18:09

viewers GMB. And

18:11

it echoes what Phil Harrison wrote on

18:13

Twitter, this morning, Sunak's

18:15

sick note announcement will have scared the

18:17

shit out of tens of thousands

18:20

of people whose vulnerabilities and struggles he

18:22

can't even begin to imagine. He

18:24

must know that. That's the

18:26

behaviour of a deeply morally flawed person.

18:29

Yeah, I was on Jeremy Vine on Monday

18:31

and a lady called in, so we're discussing

18:33

this subject, her name was Jo. And

18:36

I just, you could hear

18:38

the panic in her voice over this. And

18:41

she was explaining, she was a teacher once upon a time

18:43

and she had this hugely

18:45

debilitating breakdown.

18:48

She's been unable to work ever since, and the trembling

18:50

in her voice, and she

18:52

basically ended up crying down the line and

18:55

saying, do you think if I

18:57

could, I would be at home? Do you think I'd

18:59

be calling into a show now to be like this?

19:01

Do you think I don't want to be at work?

19:04

And it's exactly that, I just thought she'd absolutely, now

19:07

that it just pains me that there are so

19:09

many, if this is about saving money, if

19:11

this is about reducing the spend from the treasury, then they could

19:13

go after the tax avoiders, they

19:16

could go after the fraudsters who

19:18

cost us billions, but they can't

19:20

and they won't because they are

19:22

the tax avoiders, they are the

19:24

fraudsters. So instead, they target the

19:26

vulnerable, the refugees, the refugees, the

19:29

sick, the disabled now, they are

19:31

just vile bastards. A

19:34

person called Alan McEwen

19:37

tweeted, why do they have a team of 10,000 attempting

19:40

to claw back a 10 at a time from

19:43

poor people and a team of 10 trying

19:45

to get 500 billion back

19:47

from the massively wealthy? Because the

19:50

massively wealthy will defend themselves in the courts and

19:52

still come out better off. Yep, Colin

19:55

the Dutch posted a tweet that went

19:57

really, really viral and was very amusing.

20:00

It was a picture of King

20:03

Charles shaking Lego Elvis, Sunak's

20:05

hand in the palace in this

20:08

very big ornate room with pillars

20:10

and golden mirrors and Colin

20:12

the Daxian tweeted, Pleased to

20:14

see you looking so well your Majesty, we need

20:16

to discuss your return to work. And

20:21

Jonathan the Lest tweeted, The workers

20:23

versus shirkers discourse is one of

20:25

the foulest and most predictable

20:27

props of the British political

20:30

establishment. We had under Thatcher

20:32

Blair Cameron and now Sunak.

20:34

It was as cruel and baseless 40

20:36

years ago as it is now. But

20:38

in this country, we only ever punch

20:40

down. We did. We did have under

20:43

Blair, but you know what else we

20:45

had under Blair. We had a functioning

20:47

National Health Service. So listen in disbelief

20:49

to this clip is from BBC question

20:51

time back in 2005, in

20:54

which you'll hear voters complain to Tony

20:56

Blair about GP appointments

20:58

being given, wait for it,

21:01

sooner than needed. Putting

21:04

forward targets on practically everything for

21:06

timescales. I can't get an appointment

21:09

with my local GP unless it's

21:11

made within 48 hours. I

21:13

can't make it three days or four days.

21:15

Hence, I was told that's because they can

21:18

make their target that everybody gets it within

21:20

48 hours. Well,

21:22

I'm absolutely. I

21:24

promise that. Look,

21:27

let's let's be sense like this. I

21:29

don't know about this individual case, obviously, but I

21:32

would be absolutely astonished if you're saying to your

21:34

GP, I don't need to see you for four days.

21:36

And he's insisting he sees you in two. They

21:39

didn't know they were born then, Gemma. They didn't know

21:41

they were born. I watched the whole of that clip.

21:43

It goes on. And then he was

21:45

saying, oh, she's going. The problem for me is I

21:47

found up on the Monday and I wanted to see

21:49

someone on the Wednesday. And they said, if you want

21:52

to see someone on the Wednesday, phone on the Wednesday.

21:54

She was really irate. She was furious. She

21:57

was really, really cross and Tony Blair was

21:59

like, oh. Yeah, I know, I see that

22:01

can be problematic. Nothing kings would isn't

22:03

defined. The Wednesday didn't see some. Things

22:08

to this clip from Twenty

22:10

Twenty Two When. Series Coffee was

22:12

briefly on Health Secretary of good old

22:14

Days on the Tp late more than

22:17

quite forty eight hours. It's

22:19

my expectations that when somebody phones off and

22:21

they need an appointment, that they get that

22:23

appointment at least within a fortnight. Complain

22:29

about that. Last

22:31

Unbelievable Man and his Sex In

22:34

Though wage comedian Sam Avery because

22:36

we always hear the truth. Quite

22:38

like his turn of phrase. Services.

22:41

You mattress of we have a sits know

22:43

called Seventy Sixes Rights as I saw my

22:45

says authority I feel depressed and wonder who's

22:47

to blame for this sick no culture is

22:49

not going to top of the see things

22:52

to realize the effect that alone as on

22:54

people people answers about the in else to

22:56

the know with do get able to complete

22:58

the the system that we just ignore them

23:00

and ignore them until he the go private

23:02

odi a month before we get onto the

23:04

fuck you gotta use Climate Zone of A

23:06

for the fred of these things. Soon after

23:08

that were over medicate and everything Salinger's books

23:10

were doing. So at every single day is a

23:12

challenge and I think with all things considered if

23:14

anything we are on the metric system is the

23:17

sort of we got. I think that at the.

23:20

Pumps. Oh,

23:30

moving on, meeting on

23:32

and on to the

23:34

introduce a piece in

23:36

the increasingly percent six

23:38

and across from increasingly

23:40

pissed it Camilla culminate.

23:43

Which. Run with the headline.

23:46

Fourteen. Years of to be

23:49

rule has this person and

23:51

lazy dangerous. Next when. Ness.

23:54

Ah, An

23:56

unkind note says out that rights. I know

23:58

it's tough out there. I know the people

24:01

need to earn money, but the things people

24:03

who day for a paycheck. Even

24:05

understand. The sentences she sang,

24:08

fourteen years of right wing

24:10

rule have made us all.

24:12

Laugh when life said because they're so

24:14

say what has he does it right

24:17

now I did not have see with

24:19

your skull. Open saw

24:21

the right. Wow! The solution must be

24:23

to get a left wing government, Get

24:26

people motivated, safe, and organize. Will

24:29

look. What was she actually say

24:31

that with a weed? Not brightly

24:33

enough? Oh is it because people

24:35

have realize how sit a right

24:37

wing government is there now all

24:39

turning left wing? Yeah Or two

24:41

evils made Britain dangerous. I'd I'd

24:43

literally doesn't the how many times you be to

24:45

it doesn't make any more sense now. I think

24:47

you probably have to drink a few pints and

24:49

then perhaps he's on the see the clarity I

24:52

I I I don't know the she had a

24:54

big al route with semi didn't say cause is

24:56

way way down on and then it got it

24:58

got it all takes all for nothing. He ended

25:00

up. Blocking. A perhaps or vice

25:02

versa seat up know she told hims think she

25:04

told her to fuck off as express it out

25:06

and like a D M and also I were

25:08

in I did tweet. About this article, just.

25:10

Just under a never to the ask itself. could

25:12

I don't want people to play for their i

25:14

don't wanna. Be saw her views are different

25:17

like a she gets paypal has adjusted screen

25:19

grab of the headline at the or my

25:21

to so with the with the words the

25:23

things people do for a paycheck. And after

25:25

that I did nice to see a blocks me a.

25:29

Buddy. Like other, she's demonstrates everyone

25:31

was. The telegraph is yet to.

25:33

Be bought by anyone. Credible?

25:35

yeah, that was reactions obviously.

25:37

Vicky Western slow hand claps

25:39

that. The men are and everyone else.

25:41

you got everything they voted for for

25:43

the last fourteen years. The still blame

25:45

everybody else. Exactly. And

25:48

lucy sir, no, come in until

25:50

money. Fourteen years of Tory will

25:52

have left. britain sick literally

25:54

tired and bronx and

25:56

looking for an alternative

25:58

and me People like

26:01

Camilla Tomine don't even know what they believe

26:03

at this point. Yeah,

26:06

it didn't have the best reaction, did it? And

26:09

your reminder that this is the same

26:11

Camilla Tomine who once said this. As

26:14

journalists, it is our responsibility to look

26:16

at things as impartially as possible. Who

26:21

was that? Okay. Do you

26:23

know Camilla? Camilla, make Camilla. Right,

26:25

I just had to slip in this. This is

26:28

just a new, beautiful edition. I

26:30

hope you enjoy it as much as

26:32

I enjoyed researching it. So

26:35

from one laughable news headline to another,

26:38

are you ready? Because a few weeks

26:40

ago, King Charles awarded Prince Edward the

26:42

very well deserved, I'm sure, order

26:44

of the thistle. And

26:47

just this week, we learnt he's now,

26:49

well he's been dishing out quite a

26:51

few honours actually, and he's appointed Kate

26:53

Middleton, wait for it,

26:56

a royal companion of the order of the

26:58

companions of honour. That's

27:00

like Camilla Tomine's headline. I don't

27:03

understand it. A royal

27:05

companion of the order

27:07

of the companions

27:10

of honour. She's got a companion. Scott wrote, when

27:12

you need to up the word count in your

27:15

essay. Companions

27:17

are a really interesting word, isn't it? It's kind of like

27:19

what old people who don't want to have sex are looking

27:21

for in their life, isn't it? So

27:23

when they want to go on a date but without the

27:25

Algae father at the end of it, they just want

27:28

a companion. Want a companion to go to the theatre

27:30

with but I don't want to ride you at the

27:32

end of it. Is that what she's got? Well,

27:35

that's what her father-in-law gave her. And

27:37

I love it because it's a real

27:40

slimmed down modern monarchy approach. Ashles

27:43

wrote, she'll soon become an honourable

27:45

member of the members club for honourable members

27:47

of the members club who are honourable and

27:50

members. You've written, Marina's

27:52

written on the script and he also gave

27:54

his wife one. Oh Marina!

28:00

But he did Gemma, so he's basically

28:02

been very busy and in one day

28:04

he gave his wife an honor, his

28:06

daughter an honor and he gave

28:08

his son Prince William an honor. So Camilla

28:11

got, he's very generous, very generous, they've got

28:13

nothing to do Gemma, so they just sit

28:15

around making her and giving out honors. So

28:18

Camilla is now Grand

28:20

Master of the Order of the

28:23

British Empire. Grand Master Flash. Grand

28:25

Master Flash surely. And then Prince

28:27

William got Great Master

28:30

of the Order of the Bath.

28:33

Oh, I like that one. Let

28:36

me know, Grand Master Flash,

28:38

she's a rapper basically, that's

28:40

nice. And Prince William,

28:42

Great Master of the Order of

28:44

the Bath. The Bath,

28:46

so it's not bath, it's not bath

28:48

the place, it's the bath. No, it's

28:51

the bath. The Order of the Bath.

28:53

What would you order your bath? I'd be

28:55

like, magazine, glass of wine, nice candle, might

28:57

have a little bit of me time in

28:59

there. I'm so bored of this crap. I'm

29:03

just so medieval. I want

29:05

an honor. Well,

29:09

I've got one, I've got Order of the Bush. We've done this before.

29:12

You have. Order of the Bush. I

29:14

haven't got room for any more orders or

29:17

honors or medals. Kate

29:20

Smith wrote, for public service. I thought that

29:22

was just their job. Such a silly, they

29:25

must surely know that it's all just silly.

29:28

Oh, well, that's brilliant. So here's it's

29:30

like you getting an order of, and

29:32

then for working. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

29:35

It's like, that's what I do. That's

29:38

my remuneration. Are you not paid

29:40

enough for your three engagements

29:42

per quarter? I've got an Order

29:44

of the Podcast host. Order of the

29:46

Podcast host to go with my Order of the Bush. And

29:48

I'm going to have Order of the Bath. Order

29:51

of the Bloody Beeswax. It's

29:54

bizarre, isn't it? And then Brentie

29:56

wrote, what does it mean? What

29:59

does any of it? Mean oh bloody hell they

30:01

just throwing words in the an hour

30:03

coming up with bullets. Light has also

30:05

was princess would go like more woods.

30:07

Is there something going on here? Sleep

30:09

either. The Prince Edward got another one.

30:11

so couple of weeks back of the

30:13

few weeks maybe a month ago. it's

30:15

Prince Edward. Some

30:17

I heard someone say is entirely

30:20

fictitious like was ever seen him

30:22

in person spreads. Would obviously

30:24

was awarded the or destroyed or

30:26

the say so famously If he's

30:28

not, listen to that episode of

30:30

the Troll memory enough to lose.

30:33

Our say by law thing is is

30:35

it always works as a way last

30:37

into find that. City.

30:39

Got a new will Serve is already on

30:42

his mantle. Peaceful is orders. Of Thistle.

30:44

And then just a few days

30:46

ago, Tacoma Subtler Magazine reported that

30:48

he's been given the title of

30:50

says another wanna thank you thank

30:52

you to study. The

30:55

title of Kernel of the. Scots

30:57

dogs. My

30:59

goals were the ropes. Many congratulations

31:02

Who were the competitors? Discover.

31:05

That supersedes to be the right are

31:07

the hairdressers the other day get married,

31:09

son and and electron a magazine or

31:11

tastes and they bought me tattler and

31:13

I went. not that not that isn't

31:15

there like I'm sorry for this year.

31:17

The ones that another know it was

31:19

all the big Macs I read cause

31:21

like like the juicy ones will oversee

31:23

everybody. Fucks. Me

31:25

to last I was like it

31:27

site five hundred pages of effort

31:29

and then just people and pulled

31:31

from be. Who's wall

31:34

fell flat talking about their houses

31:36

and things as healthy as very

31:38

much? Reed said this is me

31:40

this this this is me in

31:42

an outfit my living with this

31:44

is the is a different house

31:47

office in my little don't go

31:49

to school and the saloons boss

31:51

is a lot of yeah I

31:53

didn't want to read that are

31:55

rejected it says not my saying.

31:58

Just reading people with God tyson. talking

32:01

bollows. Blade of the Sun

32:03

tweeted, Camilla, William and Kate were all

32:06

given royal honours by King Charles, great

32:08

master of the Order of the Bath

32:10

and companion of honour. It's like a

32:12

Charles pretend tea party but for

32:14

idle billionaires. Brilliant.

32:19

See that could have been an underrated tweet of the week

32:21

but I've got one that really made

32:24

me chuckle, right? So I think

32:28

it's from the Guardian as a headline

32:30

and it's got a big picture of

32:33

a worm. It says UK

32:35

invertebrate of the year. This is a

32:37

genuine article. Earthworm crowned

32:39

UK invertebrate of the year

32:41

by Guardian readers and

32:44

Snow tweeted, Sunak

32:46

was robbed. He's

32:49

a worm. He's a

32:51

worm. Oh, I've got one more. Charlotte Lynch from LBC wrote,

32:56

on crime in London, Tory candidate Susan

32:58

Hall says, go out on the streets

33:00

at night time and see the gangs

33:02

running around with machetes and

33:05

Labour opponent Sadiq Khan says she

33:07

shouldn't stop watching The Wire. This

33:09

isn't Baltimore. Do you know

33:11

what? There's so much good Susan Hall content at the moment. We

33:13

might need to get that in next week's draw.

33:15

Oh, pray God, she's not

33:18

London Mayor soon. Right.

33:20

I have chosen as an

33:22

underrated tweet, a picture

33:24

that was posted. Now I have

33:26

to describe it. It's

33:28

I don't know where they are but

33:30

it's Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer coming

33:33

out of a doorway of a house.

33:35

Keir Starmer is standing legs akimbo in

33:37

a sort of power pose and he's

33:39

wearing a navy shirt, navy trousers and

33:41

then sort of weird work

33:44

boots. God knows why. The toe

33:46

bit is black and then it's

33:48

brown up to just below the

33:50

knee. So Dr. Helen Ingraham wrote,

33:52

are those hooves? And they

33:54

do look like hooves. But

33:57

then the real underrated tweet was

33:59

from Sam underscore

34:01

Bams who wrote Centaur

34:04

left. Oh

34:07

very good. Went very

34:09

good. Really good. Really really good.

34:11

Yeah like that. Right

34:14

I think that's it. I think we're out of gas

34:16

here. So we

34:18

will return soon for more trawling.

34:20

It's such a good pudding. I'm so, Gemma

34:22

and I were really excited about this one.

34:24

So beautiful pudding from someone

34:27

new and we were so chuffed

34:29

when we found this and it gave me good it's

34:53

somewhat you know depressing but it's

34:55

a musical masterpiece and it's from comedian

34:57

Kaylee Jones go give her a follow

35:00

on X and she posted this

35:02

with the caption I was

35:04

inspired to write this after Rishi's announcement

35:06

I thought you might like it it's

35:08

kind of funny but mostly it's passive

35:10

aggressive rage enjoy more

35:14

of that thank you this

35:16

mental health culture has gone too far get back

35:19

to work you big fakers and I'm

35:21

not a doctor but have you tried going

35:23

for a walk walk

35:25

off your depression

36:00

home or he's a home and what on

36:02

a home? I'd be drunk and reaching in

36:04

on santos, you're the cure for the million

36:06

weight in a row for the whole of

36:08

the weightless. In about two

36:11

years and if you're alive at the end of that you'll be

36:13

even more ill I fear. But

36:15

if you think you've got it, how

36:18

scary would you think I'm going to

36:20

be? You're not enough, I

36:22

just covered a bit of a shock here. Say when

36:24

the average salary here is

36:27

under 35k, you're lucky if you get that.

36:31

A thousand cuts

36:33

to NHS, council public

36:35

service, door shut, council

36:37

hospital school, that's rumbling.

36:39

It might mean both

36:41

bellies are mumbling. But

36:44

seriously, why are so many of you ill? I

36:46

mean forget about the 5,000 that posted us in their homes

36:49

because they couldn't afford their energy bill. I

36:51

was expecting to see the prince seeing

36:53

his petra age rising as the topic of

36:55

the temperature of the earth keeps climbing. Oh

37:00

I think I'm something happy, I think I'm something happy. We're

37:02

only four months in turn here and it's important

37:04

that the country respond

37:07

on the issue of the process and think

37:09

that he noted us all as a one

37:12

of one correct spirits that the so-called the police

37:14

are called. Absolutely brilliant by the

37:16

way. It says

37:18

by a golden captain in the Paris

37:20

that this government just couldn't give us

37:22

cycles on cabinet of why is there

37:25

for this country to its knees. Just

37:28

give us a general election please. Absolutely.