Fin vs History - Seatbelts are Anti-Tittist: Harold Wilson (Part 1) | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

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But stuff starts here. Yeah. Ninety-four. This is... It's gone from stiff upper lip to loose lower bum. Yep. Stiff upper lip to stiff cock up and ass. That's where we are now.

The country descends into the toilet here. Yeah. This is where... This is where it happens. When you're piecing over post-war history and looking at wrong turns, this is the big one. I'm just... I'm stood by 1964 doing this.

I told you. What could have been? Is this the first fisting, do you think? The first fisting happens now? Yeah. First legal fisting. First legal fisting. Fisting has been happening in people's homes.

Yeah, it's been a prohibition stuff. Speak easy. Do you think people are fisted in houses? I feel like people have fisted in clubs and sex dungeons. I'm sure there have been some fissed in houses, but I imagine it's more of a, yeah. You go past a bookshelf. You put out a dummy book and you go out and there's a fist.

That's where you fist. I don't think people are fisting in their marital bed. Yeah. It's like moonshine, but instead it's like moonbumbing, sort of. No one's fisting on their own. wedding night. No. And if they are...

No one's fissing on the wedding night pre- fucking... Pre-Wilson. Pre-Alick Douglas Hume. Pre-Wilson. No one is fissing on their wedding night. And then Wilson comes in

and it's all gloves are off. All gloves are off and all hands are up ass. Fisting without gloves. It starts here. People used to shake each other's hands. They used to wear a suit and shake others' hands. Yeah. Now they wear each other as gloves.

It's disgusting. Yeah. People start wearing human beings as gloves. The modern British glove is another man. Yeah. yeah we used to have driving gloves yeah

and now we have men women used to wear Mary Goulds yeah now they just have another woman's ass I know it's disgusting it's disgraceful it's all because of this man Harold Wilson

look him in the eye this extremist who takes power in 1964 yeah we elect bin Laden bum laden bum laden bum laden

a bummer bin laden yeah Harold Wilson the king of butt stuff yeah this is where this is the real this is I almost feel like we should recap where we've got to

because when we you know for patrons they'll they'll have had all that batch and then they'll get this batch so like 64 what take us from 45 to 64 well Arleson is coming out of the long long shadow of Douglas Halleum which is how can you possibly you know to make a name for yourself after filling the great man's shoes it's following bridges at the store yeah it's impossible how you've been how do you follow McIntyre because Douglas Hume has made the office his own as we know

you know so it's not an easy thing to follow you know how dare you stand where he stood people say people are angry people are livid Alec Douglas Hume has been elected out in a shock a shock defeat

yeah like when Winston Churchill lost the election after the war it is and this extremist this bum extremist comes in yeah and suddenly takes the handbrake off everyone's fetid desires but yeah

This is the shift. This is the end of the Edwardians. Yeah. The end of the kind of the war heroes. Modern Britain as we know it starts in 1964. And I guess it's only the second Labour prime minister post-war. Yeah. And Attlee, who revolutionised the economic structure of the country,

Wilson's revolutions are probably social reforms, right? Yes, they are. He's probably the Atley of being gay. Yeah, he is. He's claiming Batteley. He's claiming Batteley. but he associates himself with the 60s swinging 60s

this is when for the first time after war London briefly is the centre of global culture yes briefly Carnaby Street you know this is where all of the new stuff

is coming out of here for about two three years let's get to how we're starting every episode this series the average house price is 3,000 pounds that's about 55 in today's money unemployment rate 2.4

so it's rising Yeah In terms of Britain in 64 The Christmas number one I feel fine by the Beatles Banger slaps Are women strumming themselves That I feel fine

Yeah Yeah okay Women are throwing their fizzy pants At the Beatles Jimmy Hendricks Guitar solo But with their fannies They're playing their fannies

They're playing their fannies with their teeth They're setting fire to them Smashing the Nuff on stage Steptoe and Sun Match of the Day is on TV There you go Match of the day, Mary Poppins. Such a lasting legacy. I didn't know it was a 60s

innovation match of the day. Jimmy Saville is on top of the pops. By this point well at this point no. At this point a talented young man. No, I think he's bad. I think he's rotten since he's in Leeds, I think. Yeah. Rotten from birth. Rotten from birth. Should have been drowned at birth.

Saville is on top of the pops and he's taking the sexual liberation of the time slightly too far. Well, it's part of the problem is it burst the door open in a way it hasn't even no one's put a lid on it

until me too really the 60s and me too is sort of bookends the sexual revolution because it was like it'd been so kept up and now it's like freedom yeah

everything's liberal and free and then you realise oh this is actually really open the door for raping McGee and his friends raping McGee well I just that's kind of like

like John Doe but for the rapist I was more than if he was in Wilson's cabinet right there's an old Let's let's look at the fittest women. In spite of that, let's look at the fittest women of the age. Jill Masterson, Charlie. Oh, hello. Painted gold. Yeah. On my stag do, I got painted gold. I didn't, but as in I wore a gold leotard and with a blonde wig to look like her. To look like her. Yeah, yeah, because then we

played N64 Gold and I think I've talked about this before in the pod. Did you get bummed on your staggy? I didn't get bummed on my stag do. No, but that is, that is what Howard Wilson was doing on his stagdo. Right. Um, Jill Masterson, what are boobs called? Bubby, Bubby, what's a bububbby but spelled B-U-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B- And in terms of the food steaks, spaghetti Bollon-Az has arrived. Spag-Bow-E-Bah, Oye, what's for tea? Spaghetti Bollon-Az is on the rise. Spack-Bow. Isn't it amazing to think of this country pre-s-Beg-Bow?

Yeah, I can't imagine it. Yeah. The lifeblood of this country. I love a spag-ball. It's like, yeah, it's working-class culture. Yeah. That's their foreign muck that they like. Spag-B-Bag-Bull. Because the spaghetti bolognese is not, it's slightly different to the Italian recipes, right? Yeah.

It's a British interpretation. Supposed you meant to put milk in it. Really? Yeah. What, Spag bowl or Italian ones? No, but bolognaise. Right. A proper bolognaz.

A bollanez. That's how Harold Wilson calls it. But a lot of the 60s, you still feel the influence, it kind of is Pandora's box now. Yes. Everything that a lot has stayed, you know. Soho still has a very 60s vibe, I feel.

Yes. There's, like, culturally, the music. It's still, you know, Oasis inspired by the 60s are the biggest touring Act. Like, it's still, the culture of the 60s. Well, Amy Winehouse, Adel, they're all the 60s. Yeah, it still dominates British culture

the 60s. It's never really been overturned. The whole, like, the identity politics starts in the 60s. With that... Postmodernism, basically. Who's that a French country? He does postmodernism. His name is fucking Fouca. Fouca. Francis Fouca.

Fouca. Fouca. Fucko. Francis Fuck-Nugget. Is it Francis Fouca? No, no, that's Francis Fukuyama. Michael Fouca. Mike, yeah. Post-structuralist philosophy.

So he's sort of more 70s, and I'd highly recommend his debate with Chomsky. It's quite funny because Chomsky has no time for any French philosophy. There's a lot of like French posturing, smoking a cigarette, what is this, what you know, where are we, you know, how do we know that anything is anything? what is the age of consent And Chomsky, who speaks French perfectly

is like, what the fuck are you talking about? Really? It's all load of... Yeah, but what does that mean? Yeah. It's just the whole thing is going, yeah, but what the fuck are you guys talking about? Because they're outside of the Anglo-Sphere's philosophy

that's kind of more dominant, I guess, kind of American-British philosophy, the French are just on their own thing saying, maybe we should lose the edge of consent. What is consent? Consent is meaningless. Meaningless. They're kind of doing their own thing.

What do you want? What do you want? The girls. Yeah, Parisian philosophers in the 80s started a proper, maybe 70s, national debate on lowering the age of consent to 14. Genuinely. To 14? Yeah. Wow.

Which wasn't happening anywhere because they looked down in any other form of philosophies. They're kind of on their own path. Yeah. And Chomsky basically says all the French philosophy is a load of bollet. Justifying pedophilia? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, basically.

Well, fine. But this is the age. People are now, you know, people have been educating themselves. They've been overeducated in the 50s. Yeah. And now they get into the point where the galaxy brain is justifying paedophilia in the 60s. Yeah. And I guess the postmodernism, post-war, there's still that kind of big ideology is kind of being destroyed.

Believing in things. Yeah, believing in anything. The church. Like the age of consent. Yeah. You know, believing in your nation, believing in your church, believing in the edge of consent, this is all being washed away. Now anything is possible. Yeah.

It's all fair game. And Savils on top of the pops. And he's taking this in. He's really is. And he's thinking, what is the age of consent? Yeah. First Pizza Express in 1965, wow. Wow.

Spirit of the 60s. And Foucault, interestingly, died of AIDS in 1984. Because what even is AIDS? What, I do not believe in there. It is just a construct. Let's get back to Wilson. So in 64, Wilson is coming off the back of a rotten establishment. Right.

Douglas Hume, towering figure. Yeah. Cast a shadow over everything. But before that, McMillan, lesser known sort of single term he had the perfumo affair blah blah blah blah

there's just the seediness of the Tories there's been a cultural rot and corruption at the heart of the Tory project Wilson on election night postponed Stepton's son to get more people to vote What is Tepto and Sun? It's like a classic British comedy

Oh right okay It had 40 million viewers Wow And he encouraged more people to vote Went to Morkman Wise Is this but later? That's later, that's 70s. This was, Wilson insists on presenting the Beatles with an award

to sort of bolster his man of the people. Yes, and he does this throughout the 60s. He really tries to associate it. Yeah, Blair with Oasis at Downing Street. It's very much, yeah. Associated yourself with cool people. And he represents his kind of end of the aristocrats. Yeah.

He's, uh, is he working class? He's fresh. Not really. I mean, is he a bit. Lower middle. Is he a bit? Yeah, he's lower middle. He's northern, Harold Wilson?

Well, then he's working class then. Yeah, he's in my book. Huddersfield. Yeah, he's from Yorkshire. Yorkshire. He's got that. Harold Wilson. Yeah, because everyone before this has been...

Yeah. And he's like, Oh, my name's Harold Wilson. The white heater technology. Oh, yeah. I want to let loose the light heater technology. His father was workhouse manager

and his mother was fucking school teacher. Use Plosnet, you know. He was advertising... He was being used for his trustworthy Northern accent to sell Wi-Fi and T. Well, this is the first time the Northern accent seems trustworthy, isn't it? Exactly.

We didn't trust them until now. No. Yeah, he's had to... to be literally riddled with sex scandals the posh to lose the rights to be trustworthy and now you're giving it to the Northerness In the election, this is the famous election where a Tory MP

in Smedic ran a slogan if you want an N-word for a neighbour vote Labour. He won because that's smethit Now where is smethic Charlie? And it's town's too close to smegma does it not? It does sound like smegma Smethik is a silly name for a place.

Smethic is a town of... West Midlands, yeah. There you go. Smithic. Smedic? I don't want a name with it for a Labour, so I'm not voting Labour and Smithy. That sounds like Enoch Powell. Well, Enoch Powell comes into this, famously.

He's sticking around. In the 60s, I don't know, it's very hard to stop doing that. Well, Enoch Powell's actually from the long lineage of the highly educated racist. Yes. He actually is a real throwback. He was the youngest professor

in the entire British Empire. He was a professor in ancient Greek at the age of 25. Crazy. In the University of Sydney, he translated Herodotus when he was like a teenager. Wow. So like an ancient Greek genius, like the old eugenicist sort of tradition. A scholar and a racist is what you'd say about people. He's a scholar and a racist.

Well, Enoch Powell, Andrew Maher says. I love his voice, though, the kind of like Cambridge, Birmingham mix that you don't really hear that often. The Enoch Powell. Enoch Powell, the posh, believe. It's similar to the Coonsburg, posh, Edinburgh, which really gets me. It adds more of a kind of class to the stop the boat's kind of attitude.

Rivers of Blood. Andrew Maher says that this era we're now entering 64 onwards is there are sort of five or six people dominate politics. Right. Harold Wilson, Ted Heath, Roy Jenkins.

Right. Enoch Powell, Tony Ben. Oh, right. These are the people that are kind of either, they're in number, or they're just out causing trouble. Powell and Ben are like on the flanks. Because Powell starts to kick off.

And Powell starts the long lineage that leads to Farage, really. Yes, definitely. With a bit of a spasm with Nick Griffin. Yes, as we've discussed, Griffin. Griffin's not the educated racists. We must protect British civilisations for the best country in the world.

The rivers of blood speech would not have been as effective had it come from Nick Griffin. Yes. So a lot of, there's been a lot of immigration post-win rush, yeah that's so the kind of the first time properly the demographics are radically changing with non-white immigration basically which is causing a lot of tensions which we're fine with we're completely fine with we're completely fine with uh there's a

do you reckon that's what the labor cabinet were saying what we're fine with we're absolutely fine with it we're absolutely fine with it and then enoch pal's just outside going You sure you're fine with this? Yeah. The bloody wreck it? There's riots in Notting Hill. There's rights and Notting. Yeah.

Malcolm X visits Smethic during his UK speaking tour and has a pint in the pub. Nine days later, he was shot. But is that... That's how... This is a note, but is that implying that there's a link? I think he shot himself. After going to Smethic. After going to Smethick.

So I guess this is actually the beginning of socially the consensus is breaking apart. Yes, the Post-Wall Social Social... consensus. Economically it breaks at Thatcher but socially having a figure like Powell and a figure like Tony Ben suddenly there's real distinct differences between the major parties. Starting to be yeah.

As opposed to McMillard, the McMillan sort of Wilson S, there wasn't huge differences. But the 70s is when the country is being pulled in both directions, isn't it? Yeah. Which we'll get to but this really as you said is there's less economic change, it's more an absolute onslaught and social change.

It's forced down people's throats. They've just got over one thing and another thing comes up. Big rubber fists with no gloves, with no driving gloves on them. So let's get to his cabinet. There's George Brown,

who is the, I don't know what he is. Mass alcoholic. He's a huge alky and he causes a problem, I think, when just after JFK is assassinated, he goes on TV

and drunkenly claims to have been best friends with him. John He got emotional and drunk Yeah I fucking love that guy I fucking love you John I fucking love you

mate people don't say it enough man You're fucking car He's calling Jackie Kennedy He's just yeah The fucking I You know what I always loved your fucking head I loved your head Mate I was so fucking upset

When I heard your head fucking blew up man So sad man Callahan as Chancellor We'll get on to him Because he's at the end of the story Roy Jenkins Who

We had loads of affairs, including Jackie Kennedy's sister. Really? He was a dog. I think he fucked, I think he fucked Anne Fleming as well. Well, who didn't? Everyone's fucking Al Fleming.

I mean, it's more who didn't fuck Anne Fleming. That's true. That's the bullet point. Yeah, it is. Didn't fuck Anne Fleming. Yeah. Anne Fleming was an absolute go- Then Barbara Castle.

You get a blue plaque for not fucking Anne Fleming. Yeah. In this house. Yeah. This man did not fuck Anne Fleming was not fucked here. Barbara Castle, who's I think, certainly one of the... Barbara Castle.

Barbara Castle. Again, when do the names become sexy? No, that's kind of a sexy name, I think. Barbara. Barb's. Go on, have a go on this, Bab. Barbie Castle. I'm just thinking Barb from the Royal Family.

All right, Bab. Barbara. Barbra. Have you seen the... Barbie asshole? Barby asshole. You sound like a fucking AI. Barryby asshole.

You have typed in Barbie asshole and I have no results. Are you saying one of the most influential members of Howard Lawson's cabinet was called Barbie assholes a lot of sense yeah and you barby asshole uh one of the one of the four female politicians of her age she um so she campaigns for she basically is the reason we all have seatbelts right really because when see so seatbelts are introduced during the woke nonsense of and it's like um so people at the age are going i'm looking for two words yeah but they don't have the they don't have the vernacular what they couldn't say woke nonsense because it didn't exist but no but genuinely when seatbelts are introduced right because the first

motorway, the first motorway has been, the M1's opened in 1959, because my dad always goes, I'm as old as the M1, that's his thing that he says. On his, on his birthday, he goes, happy birthday, just the M1, you know, that's his thing. He gets a car with the picture of him on here. You have to have a thing. He's, that's his bit,

right? He's as old as the M1. So motorways are around, right? And, but seatbelts aren't a thing. And when they're introduced, genuinely, the response is, that's woke nonsense. Yeah. Do you know why? Because, women with big tits can't

it can't get them over their tits. It's constrictive to women with big tits. So it's anti big tits? It's anti big tits. Now did Barbie asshole have big tits? Yeah, and then she... Let's check out the chab's out, would you? Get Barbie assholes out of, would you? Get her bubby's up?

Who's Lolo Ferrari? She had the biggest movies in the 60s. Normally you get out of the set if it's unrelated, but... Lolo Ferrari. She's related. French dancer, actress and singer who had the largest... Best in parts of the world? Biggest puppies in the world.

Yeah. Anti-seatbelt activist. Her death in 2000 was ruled of suicide. Right. Did she smother herself with her puppies? No, she wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Is that what Diana? Is that why Diana didn't wear a seatbelt?

Didn't have big enough airbags? When do they start getting called airbags? Anyway, Barbie asshole. Barbie asshole gets in a... I don't want a seat. What's that? No, no, I'm looking anatopical drawings of intestines. What's Barbie surgery?

What's that? Ignore. Barbie asshole puts a seat belt. She does a campaign where she puts a seatbelt over her over her chebs trying to convince people that it's actually still it's safe and it's fine it's not anti big tit

I think the Tories have been saying it's anti big that is and she's doing like a how to guide put a seatbelt on with big chips she's a big reason why you put them betwixt the chebs yeah or you can go under your ass and route

let's see okay well let's check out a big bob she's not got massive chebs though so it doesn't really no but that was probably the conservative attack Because I'm an empath for the big cheb

I'm pro big cheb I'm a chebist Yeah I'm anti small cheb actually Anti small cheb virulently anti small cheb Um So anyway

seat belts come in We'll get to that So Harold Wilson Bernie Yorkshire He's a fucking nerd He's a massive nerd He goes to Oxford Um

Meets his wife Mary Photographic memory Fucking pervert Yeah absolutely That's in there that's in the Wang Bank that's log

Wilson, yeah Wilson masturbating he goes cross-eyed and he just goes it's like fucking Sherlock Holmes in his mind palace but there's no

but porn is starting to come in right sex shops start populating yeah no and he doesn't buy any porn he just goes to a sex shop and just use his photograph

memory that's true what you say he goes into a service station just gets a top shelf just goes like that bank yeah like weakest link

bank and it's just in there yeah so he goes in the in terms of his war record he's basically like a civil servant he joins the war cabinet secretariat right blah blah blah but uh he is a victim of

bombing and that he travels out of london for a weekend to put his cat in a cat and then um the cat cat he gets bombed and his cat dies damn so 45 minute silence please i'll probably see this out yeah uh blah blah blah now he starts doing trade negotiations with the ussr in the 40s which is when he begins his tactic of smoking a pipe to buy himself time to think when someone said something confusing. Interesting. So he'd be smoking a pipe. This is more my speed.

So you'd say something. And I'd be like, I'm lighting a pipe, but in a bit I'm going, fucking, fucking, oh, fuck. It's like me on stage.

I use really dramatic pauses when I can't remember what I'm going to say next. So I abe you what I'm saying with a lot of intellectual value. A big swig of a drink. People go, wow. I like go,

he's like, he's really struggling with this idea. Yeah, he's really grappling with this idea. And you're just going, I don't know what the fuck? What the fuck? The dildo edit?

Is it? What's the What's the next word? Is it dildo? Is it Pidoes? Is it jihadi? I know it's something about that. Those are the three jokes I have

about Dildos, Jihadis and Pidos. It's a good routine. It's a great routine. It's the only routine there is. Genuinely, I think I could write an hour. We're just putting 10 words in a fucking... Well, yeah, you could do like a book. You know how everyone says

that's only like three stories. There's only ever three stories or whatever. You can be like, there's only one joke. There's only one joke. There's only one joke. Jahdi Pido. Pido do. Dildo.

But he uses the pipe to get his working men's image right but he doesn't actually love the pipe he prefers a cigar doesn't love that pipe doesn't love laying pipe he doesn't love laying pipe I think he loves laying pipe do you think yeah

yeah yeah we'll get into his affairs in when we'll do an episode in his second term but yeah he loves laying pipe yeah is laying pipe sex or poo I've just realised I don't know which one it is

let's laying a cable thank you that's poo and laying pipe is I've been using them into Mitterloo are you sorry are you um off to lay cable or pipe yeah instead of like kiss or poo is it like cable or pipe this time yeah um so blah blah blah blah is he's in the cab i think he's the youngest ever minister or in the cabinet he's like 30 when he gets into

minister so he's kind of a prodigé yeah prodigy yeah whatever whatever was a fucking one of them blah blah blah 1963 makes the white heat speech and heath is the same so a lot of these people coming through are like school prodigies Swats Yeah Yeah So maybe

They're like Can you get a video up Like a young conservative But is this the new generation Of politicians then So it's no longer Landed Gentry No

It is people who did well In their fucking GCSE exams Yeah It's like Yeah it's like Yeah Yeah Let's get a give you of them

Yeah to be fair Yeah to be fair I think conservative members are a bit weird And you're a bit weird I might do weird things But I wouldn't class myself as weird Because I think what's interesting is that, like, a lot of people are going to have career politicians that they go into it, they're going from a young age. And the kind of people who have enough free time when they're young to go to Conservative Party conferences are such big losers.

Yes. It does mean that we have a real fucking cool guy drain from politics. Cool drain. We've got a cool drain. Yeah. We just need some fucking shaggers in there. It's fucking loser central. I think get sex scandal back into politics.

Rachel Reeves and Kirstama. Is it that's those are a big two? Yeah. We need some. fucking shaggers in there. And why do they sound like that? I'm fucking missing Cameron. Yeah.

And he was a fucking loser as well. Get someone who's stuck there hog in a pig. Someone who's done hog squares. Get a fucking pig fucker in at least. Hog plus hog equals good time. Yeah. Need some shaggers back in. Yeah.

Well, Wilson's a bit of a shagger, but we'll get to that. So he wanted to unleash the white heater technology. And I think the big symbol of the age, when was the BT tower built? You point to me because you know what that is? Yeah. Yeah.

I know why it was in the Coldplay song It's a very interesting fact Go on then This wasn't in the Coldplay song It's but it's named after the Coldplay song What? The BT Tower No sorry

Lights will guide you home What mention the BT Tower is there It's referenced Because Basically the Coldplay guys were at UCL And the halls are near the BT Tower And therefore when they were coming home For nights out

They would look for the BT Tower In order to get into bed It inspired one of their songs They didn't mention it in their song Beatty Tower's lights will guide you home And I will try to fix the BT Tower The Massive Hit Beatty Tower will guide you home Coldplay's huge top of the charts

Not images, when was it built? 61, 64 64, yeah It was built the year that Wilson came in And it's the symbol of the white heat The view of, that is the symbol of modernity in the 60s Ah!

Oh! Oh! It's so fucking white hot. That's their view. It's always interesting like the past view of the future though. That's the most futuristic thing.

I mean, it still looks... I love the Beatty Tower. It's similar to the thing and is it Alexander Platts in Berlin? Yes. Very much so. The Ferns there to them, the TV Tower.

That looks fucking cool. The Ferns there to them actually does look like a futuristic tower. Is the BT Tower still used? I actually have a fact about this because my dad wanted to go up it for his birthday and my sister's boyfriend works for BT and he organised a trip and he had a lovely time because they're taking it down soon and the restaurant the restaurant's closed. The BT Tower's being closed. They're taking the

tower down. It's no longer going to be the BT Tower. And I think they've closed the restaurant and maybe it's being closed for good at some point. But they're not going to destroy the tower. It's London in 20, 2035. That's a fucking great tower. It's being overrun by Poo and Indians. Campaign to keep the BT Tower open. Check out the BT Tower is getting shut down. It's converted into luxury hotel. yeah I mean as long as it state

they keep the is BT Tower grade listed let's check that out no come on we can't leave the BT Tower that's what we got left he's literally a script on reality

I'm the biggest fan of the PG Tower in the whole country this is what we're gonna make him vote before grade two listed yeah they better fucking

okay now what does grade two and grade one mean no idea is how much planning permission you need to knock him

down grade one you cannot fucking type Stipor's Cathedral's grade one so what was the Twin Towers

well they don't have the grade system America. Well, that's why they got knocked down. Do you think if it was grade one listed? It would be like, wait, well, we can't touch that. You can't go right down. It's historic. No, they tried several times to get the panel permission to fly planes into it. Are they knocking it down? Yes.

No, they're turning it into a hotel. Yeah. Stop saying yes. Exactly. It could be not knocked down and turned into hotel. It makes sense they turn it to hotel. No, it wouldn't make sense as that. It's not a hotel shaped. Yeah, it is. Mate, anything could be a fucking hotel. The cleaners are not going to be able to go. Your car's a hotel on weekends. You trash. Your cousin's ass is probably a hotel for 10 minutes every Saturday night.

It's not being knocked down, okay, good. Fine, thank you. Along with the Beattie Tower. Anyway, Wilson says in his famous white heat speech, there will be no room for Luddites in a socialist party, for the only result will be that Britain will become a stagnant backwater, which it has now become. So, just reckon with that.

The Britain that is going to be formed in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for the restricted practices or for outdated methods from either side of industry. Why is the white heat speech so definitive? Why is it such an iconic speech?

Do you think? I think it's just the phrase white heat. It's just the feeling. Right. It just captured the essence of the age. It's telephones. It's big tellies.

Yeah. It's, uh, what else is it? I don't know, radios. Yeah. You know, it's the cutting VH. VHS is a name around. It must be, when was the electronic deal, but, dildo?

Not deep heat, Charlie. Check when the first, um, vibrator, electronic vibrator. I don't think we're there yet, surely. 1880? No. By a British physician. By a British man. Sorry.

By Dr. Joseph's mortar for Granville and it was called Granville's hammer. While Granville did not intend it for women to treat hysteria, the device was later adopted and marketed for a wider audience, including women, for various ailments and eventually for pleasure. Right. When was the modern dildo? Granville's hammer. The white heat of technology. Modern dildo. When was the modern dildo?

We should actually... Is that a steam-powered... Sorry, Granville's hammer. Grandville's hammer was steam-powered. It's a steam-powered dildo. That's great. We should place, Wilson. We haven't placed it.

1964. Right. 1964, this is before the AIDS crisis. Yep. And it's after Elvis. No, it's after Cliff Richard. had started. Right, yeah.

So Cliff is about... But AIDS isn't. Yeah. So they know what... They know what Cliff looks like. We're all going on a summer holiday. But not to get AIDS. Not to get AIDS.

Yeah. Let's get to his government, okay? Because it is a cavalcade of reform. The Murder Act. He says murder should be illegal. Insane. Insane. He criminalizes murder.

Who have we elected? There's bin Laden's in number 10. It's extremist. He abolish. is capital punishment, which I think the last hanging in Britain is 63 or 4, I believe. There's a film about peer point. You know peer point? No.

He's the great execution of Britain, who was actually anti-capital punishment in the end. He killed 600 people. Fuck. Wow. He's a professional hangman. Yeah. 600. It's crazy.

Oh yeah, that's right. I read about this. So he did like some of the Nuremberg Nazi war criminals. Oh, did he? And then he also... Get peer point in. Yeah. And then he also,

when he came back and he starts doing like a kid who's done like an arm robbery or something and he's like, is this the same? Is this the same? Should I be hanging this guy?

Well, he's past his peak at that point. Yeah, I guess so. He's doing smaller rooms. That's it. You can see the color of the seats. Peter Allen and Gwyn Evans were executed. So he abolishes capital punishment.

The Race Relations Act introduces incitement to racial hatred as a criminal offence. Right. Cigarette advertising is banned. So race relations. Is that that's, you know, that's, is that where like the hate speech, so our free speech laws, hate speech being...

Is that before or after Enoch Powell kicks off? Because that's a difference between America where you can sort of say whatever. Right. This is our view of, we have a more limited free speech here because you can be done. To incitement. Yeah. Yeah. Cigarette advertising is banned on British TV, which is early, isn't it?

God, this is all woke nonsense, isn't it? It's an absolute woe madness. Driving reforms, breathalizers, 70 mile an hour speed limit. Wow. Seat belts, which again is anti-tittist. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, think about the Furi, what is it? For-O-Rory.

About Sidney's Sweet. Ful-Roi. F-Haw! Big Tits. F-Rour-Rory. But think about that about Sidney's Sweeney's tits that are now seen as like, you know, anti-woke racist. They're racist. And then the woke nonsors are trying to get rid of them with seatbelts.

Yeah. You know? Sidi-Sweeney's not built for seatbelts. No, she shouldn't have to wear them. No. She should have an exemption. On her driving license. I'll certainly see who's driving license

does you have a thing on the back saying exempt from seat belts tits too big oh god right more social reform now this is interestingly this is all Roy Jenkins is he the

he's home secretary I think and he basically he's like the bevan of this government bevan he knocks these all over it's like he's a bowling out of it Bowling alley, one ball.

Yeah. Abortion, gone. Fucked out the window. Or decriminalised. So it's like the opposite of Roe v. Wade. Male homosexuality, male decriminalised. Really? Well, they don't really, they don't believe that.

We still don't know if female homosexuality is a thing. We barely know if female heterosexuality is. We don't know if the female orgasm exists. It's a myth. It's a Greek myth. We will be doing a patron episode on the myth of the female orgasm. Divorce. liberalise, which is, this is where Peter Hitchens

gets off the train and thinks that Britain's went in the toilet. Yes. He thinks when you liberalise divorce law, suddenly you break up the family unit, which means that crime happens. I don't know what is. Voting age dropped to 18. The Open University launched. This is a slew of woke nonsense.

Theaters are uncensored. Uncensored. I'm slightly curious as to whether the plays were better. when they were censored, yeah. Because then you have a second opinion going, do you know what, mate? You'd be a great theatre centre. This is fucking boring.

This is shit. I'm going to cancel this play and instead, everyone who's bought tickets, I'm going to project a copy of The Rock. Right, you said that you should just watch a copy of heat, yeah. Yeah, whatever. It's better. Yeah.

I would reinstate theatre censorship if I'm prominent. Before this, if you wrote a play, you were to send it to the Lord Chamberlain to approve or censor it. I mean, Lord Chamberlain sounds like a fun guy. Yeah. He sounds like a guy who was not going to censor your plays, is he? No, not Lord Chamberlain.

Lord Chamberlain. He's a very open. He's a laugh, Lord Chamberlain. Yeah, Lord Chamberlain says, yeah, whatever. But he would change, he would change it, be like, this is a bit smutty. Yeah. So some horny playwright, we're going to play about it. Bigger tits.

Bigger fucking Chebs. That's him. That's him. That's the current Lord Chamberlain. So now is he decided. The pre-man mental mental, male mental, health? Yes, it is.

So he wouldn't know what sad is either. No. So he'd know what gay is. So he's just got a gay play. And he'd be like, that's illegal. Do you know about the Chatley affair? Oh, Lady Chatterley. Yes, the Lady Chathley affair.

Remind me. So this is the opening to San Brick's book. The Sanbrick says this is the beginning of the 60s, basically. This is what, this is actually the hinge. Obscenity trials. So even though this is before Wilson, well, I still want to mention the Chatley trial because it was like, it was seen as this hoity, like, this old. the establishment who couldn't deal with anything prude

trying to use obscenity laws on this kind of smutty book called Lady Chalely's lover and then it just everyone made fun of the establishment for kind of the first time ever But this makes complete sense because like if it hadn't been for this

Peter Hitchin says this is the end of British culture But if it hadn't been for this they hadn't legalised smutty books women would not be able to read anything because all women read is filth All they read is smuck It's not just 50 Shades of Grey It's now Fairy Porn

It's the biggest seller of women's books And women dominate the book market Because it's just muck And men don't want to read that filth We want to listen to podcasts about tanks They opened Pandora's box Charlie looking at me So don't just Google Fairy Porn

And then stare at me And then stare at me like I've said something wrong There's a book series What's it called Phoebe? What am I talking about? The book series It's called like a crown of thorns

Or something It's like a crown of thorns or something It's like a Crown of Thorn and Roses. There's also a deal with the Elf King. It's all fairy dragon porn. Yeah. And Peter Hitchens was right then.

Well, Peter Hitchens was right several times a day. But a court of thorns and roses. This is currently the biggest selling filth in the UK. Is your wife reading this? My wife's reading this and the sequels, the other one. And it's also like, what I find funny about this kind of, because they know men have stopped reading. Yeah.

because we've gone autistic, right? They have had this whole hidden thing because they've carried on reading and so they've been left alone to their own devices and only now men are starting to be like what are you, sorry, what are you been reading? What are you guys? We've been looking at World War II videos on YouTube.

Yeah. What have you guys been? What the fuck is this? You've been left alone for a couple of years and you guys are fucking strumming yourself to the idea of a fairy king who listens to your feelings. It's awful.

this Lord of the Rings pant froth yeah for the chatley trial lasted six days that focus on whether the book's literary merit and potential for public good outweighed its perceived obscenity

the defence argued that exploration of human sexuality was important for public understanding can we get some quotes up Charlie of like the obscene moments in it because it'd be good to understand what is obscene it's still sums up the age

it's the 60s isn't it what is obscene about the book bestseller by the way once persistent quote and his penis big and hard as a knotted club came into her softly softly and then with a great thrust

and then with slow powerful strokes and then with a final convulsive heave I'm often doing big heaving my penis heaving my penis into my wife it's like I'm dragging a big fridge well

no it's like trying to move a fridge that's why sometimes I just give up and leave it on my front lawn rid of that. Any other quotes? Fly tip in my cock because it's so big. So, God, yeah, a smutty book starts the 60s. But it's funny to think that that in the 60s, there's an obscenity trial, and then

two nights ago, I watched Bonnie Blues documentary where she fucked a thousand men a day. But that's why it's such a turning point. Yes. Because as soon as that verdict was overturned, it all explodes. You can't put that genie back in the bottle. Yeah. But, you know, the female orgasm only exists in literature.

Yes. As we can see right there. Well, it's a fictional invention. It's an It's a fantasy. It's as fictional as fairies and elves. It's invented in 1960 with Lady Chattley's lover. And therefore there was a court trial to establish whether this would damage the population. Because it would give women ideas about what's in their fizzy pants. And they're chasing after this female orgasm and it's hard to explain to them.

That doesn't exist. So Roy Jenkins, reform after reform after reform, you know, in seven years the country's completely changed socially. Yeah. But what about Wilson's foreign policy? There's a lot of quite fruity stuff in Rhodesia. Yeah. Which obviously we'll do another,

we'll do an episode on Rhodesia. Well, it feels like the white minority rules in Africa, they go completely AWOL. Yeah. They just don't listen to anything the Britain says anymore. No.

It's quite Israeli, to be honest. Yeah, well, it's white settlers. It's white, you know. Yeah. As we've discussed, white settlers are the hardest fuckers of war. They are. Yeah, why don't you go fuck yourself?

Yeah. Can you, um, maybe, well how about you go fuck off how about you fuck off right so Ian Douglas Smith not Ian Duncan Smith no governor of Rhodesia which is

Zimbabwe is it now northern Rhodesia blah blah blah so he issues a unilateral declaration of independence from the Commonwealth which yes you always remember Zimbabwe at this point is similar makeup to South Africa

so there's a lot of white Zimbabwe and white Rhodesians who are just Zimbabwe Zimbabwe I love the way they say Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe. So you're not meant to be there, clearly. No, Zimbabwe.

This is Primugabe. And Ian Smith deems this UDI. And then Wilson's great failure, actually, is that he goes up to Smith. And he goes, oh, yeah, well, we're not going to invade. Don't worry. We're not going to force the issue. And then Smith goes, brilliant.

And then he fucking just declares Rhodesian independence, it's 965. So we boycotting Rhodesia, like that. Africa. Yeah, and it kicks off this insane... Another apartheid, basically. Basically, it kicks off this insane, like, shitstorm Rhodesia, that then, you know,

there's Mugabe, and then it's a whole other revenge thing, and it just goes on and on and on. It's a complete shit show. But Wilson... Wilson's weak in that he could have threatened an invasion, and Smith might have backed down. And Rodeja's a lot like South Africa. It's just a...

Rodeja had Mugabe and Salfrica had Mandela. Yeah. And they're the same. Mugabe Mandela. Tomatoes. But Mugabe's whole thing was... how about we just kill all the farmers I just give everyone who doesn't know how to farm the farmland

and Mandela was forgive kiss and forget that was his big thing Kiss Winnie Kiss Winnie But also Mugabe had a Hitler tash But he was black Dangerous So it's like

What am I meant to think Yeah Why am I turned on Why am I turned on Why are you Hitler Why am I Hitler We're all do an episode Onugabe

Sorry I thought you could say we're going to do an episode of the YUK guy. We will do an episode on YO. Why am I, Hitler? Right, let's carry on. Smith hates Wilson's government, describes it as a socialist regime. Hell-bent on appeasing the cult of Marxism.

He's got some things right. Yeah, no, he's a stop clock. But the other big thing we should talk about, Wilson's sort of great success in this period in foreign policy is that he keeps us out of Vietnam. Because at this point, obviously America is still funding us and Lyndon Johnson is applying

his big hog pressure like we discussed last episode standing over Little Wilson with his hog out shitting on the toilet saying come and get in Vietnam and he's going just send like one squad one fucking regiment just one in the international community

just to say that we're not on a limb here and Wilson goes no yeah but he won't condemn most prime ministers probably would have buckled yeah but he he doesn't condemn America for invading because that would then jeopardise the funds that they're getting

and that means... It's a sour relationship for a bit until Vietnam's such disaster that I can't have to give. But also what's interesting is that his party all hate him because he won't condemn America

right, even though he's not putting troops in but that's the right balance. Yeah, exactly. Because if you're a Labour Prime Minister, whatever you do, you're going to piss off

the most annoying people in your party. Economically, towards the end of Wilson's tenure, this is where it starts getting quite bad. There's a devaluation crisis. Yeah.

But this seems to be the same as the other devaluation crisis. If people seem to devalue the pound, they say it's going to be all right and then it's not all right. I'm not an economist, but it feels like don't devalue the pound. Basically, they were always thinking about devaluing it, which would have meant, I don't know what. And then right into the last minute, they don't devalue it. And then someone goes, we have to now. It's out of your hands. And then they fuck it.

because, as we've been discussing this entire series, the Arab-Israeli war kicks off in 67. Is that Yom Kippur? Yeah, no, it's, uh, no, it's not. It's the Sinai War, it's six-day war, I think. Right, six-day war. And they turn the fucking lights out. Here we go.

So when's the light start get turned out? 67. 67. 67. This means that they have to... The precursor of the 70s. They have to devalue it. Uh, and so Jim Callahan, who is chancellor, resigns,

Did you ever see the knife put more deliberately into a leader's back? Sterling goes from $2.8, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, Wilson's big fuck up is that he goes on the radio after this and goes, the pound abroad is worth 14% less. That doesn't mean the pound in your pocket has been devalued. But it had. But it literally has. Anyone going abroad's like, well, it means less.

I've got less savings. Yeah. I'm fucked. Middle class. Yeah. He loses the middle class. He loses the middle class, which is always what happens. Yeah.

When Labor fuck up, they lose middle class and then go. so this signals after this everyone thinks he's slippery he gets a reputation for being slippery right slippery Wilson this is kind of the 67 I guess when the 60s have stopped swinging in the UK

I feel a bit yeah it's moved to northern California right that's where the heart of it is the kind of it feels like it's starting to ebb away now the height of the 60s is going well when are the Beatles stop recording they break up in 1970 I believe

70 yeah yeah my dad basically has that it might as well have it tattooed as a trap stamp

yeah the Beatles career it's got Beatles autism just above his ass women want equal pay this is a

Ford sewing machinist strike in 1968 blah blah blah blah women won equal pay Barbara Castle

comes in Barbie asshole Barbie asshole Barbie asshole comes in and goes yeah Yeah, you should probably pay them more. Yeah. And this results in the Equal Pay Act of 1970.

Right. So from that point onwards, women are being paid the same. And then the election is called? And then straight away, they call the election. They go, I don't know, I don't know if we can back this. Does the country want this? Yeah. I think we need a woman date for this.

Yeah, we do. Super tax. Yeah, we need to talk about it. So after the, after the devaluation, uh, labor introduced this 95% top rate of tax. for who so for anyone over a certain threshold but it's any over what threshold well any any income that you've not earned i.e. passive or like asset driven is taxed at 95% that is crazy to be fair which means that that's what um inspires the

Beatles song tax man right so 95% just goes to the government so in the in his in his first term it was a pretty socially a transformative uh premiership uh that you could argue it's too much too quickly. Okay. How do, socially? One could argue it's too much.

Wilson loses the middle classes, but he has, he leaves office with having done this slew of cultural reforms that are still with us to this day. Abortion is allowed.

But once again, sort of like the Aatley government, within two years, he does a huge amount of changes and they sort of runs out of ideas. But a lot of it's not him, similar to Atli, it's Roy Jenkins actually does

There's a lot of similarities between these two radical Labour governments They come in with a great set of ideas implement them all And then it But that's kind of what Labour is, isn't it? It comes in once in a generation Does everything that needs to be done

That the contours will never do And then won't get elected to the end for 15 years That's kind of what it does And then economically it just sort of starts to collapse But to be fair to Wilson This is the beginning of the taps getting turned off Yeah so towards the end of the 60s there's coal, there's coal shit going on.

Yeah. Coal's the thing. Yeah. I don't know what, what's going on. Is it in the ground? Do they find coal? Coal? Coal's in the ground, yeah. Close on trees. It's like apples.

You have a coal orchard. Yeah. Yeah. But is it like, right? Is it just like in the soil or is it where? You get pickax and you, really? I think it's, do you have mines?

Oh yeah, coal mine. Yeah. Right. Where do you think oil? comes from. Sky. Sky oil? Yeah. No, it's from the ground too. Yeah. From the Earth's core.

So I think you could basically define Wilson's career from the white heat technology, the optimism to the pound in your pocket disaster. Yeah. That kind of bookends his popularity and his failure, right? Mm. Starts with white heat ends with a pound in your pocket. Yeah, exactly.

And that's kind of it. A great modernizer socially. Yeah. economically he's done nothing really to shift the consensus at all but the consensus is started those the atliesque worldviews

it's starting to under the globalised economy when another country can turn your taps off the kind of national socialist economy non-national socialist sorry I'm listening I'm listening the socialist economy it doesn't really work

in this new world or we're getting to see how it doesn't work the gathering storm we're getting to we're building up to is that in a global economy the best post-war consensus does not work. And it's just starting to creak.

And in our next episode, we will finally get to the 70s. What this whole podcast is sort of about. If this podcast is set from anywhere, it is in the middle of the 70s. It's in the middle of the 70s. Yeah. Which is Britain's lowest point.

It's Britain's lowest point. Britain's never been funnier. I think it defines so much of, is the great turning point, really. Britain is Greece. It's toilet. With worse food. With worse weather.

It's a toilet. It's a national humiliation. And that's not, you know, we've already had a cuck prime minister who's open near a cuck. That's not even the most humiliated we get. Britain will be on its knees for a decade. Until mummy brings the bleach. Until mummy comes up to wake us up. Mommy.

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