Britain needs its Mummy: Jim Callaghan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

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1:36Welcome back to Finn vs. History. This is part 10. This is it. We've done it. If you've made it this far, what the fuck is wrong with you? What the fuck is wrong with you? If you're still with us, you've got nothing on in your life. This is in the fucking toilet. This podcast is in a fucking state of emergency. Podcast in the toilet. Country's in the toilet. Look, this is the final part of our podcasting ultramarathon. post-war British Prime Ministers 1945 to 1979 the long road to Thatcher Mummy Mummy wake us up would you You've shat yourself at nursery and now your mummy's come to pick you up early That's where we're at We're two toddlers with shit in our pants To recap, Harold Wilson's second term he is being Grandad got pegged Don't peg your grandad Leave grandad alone he just wants to enjoy his Werther's Originals in peace but he's been the great Marcia Williams is riding around down the street like a fucking pony and he resigns in 1976 having not sold anything nothing's been sold to be fair no one's sold anything for maybe 10 years at this point no one has had any good ideas no and so in comes James Callaghan Jim Callaghan who I think unfairly is often called the worst prime minister we've ever had.

2:58Yeah. Because I mean, 74 is what sealed the fate that Thatcher's coming in, right? Yeah. But 79, he actually did all right, considering. 74 is where it actually properly went wrong. 74 to 76, yeah. That was kind of when it properly got fucked. But he was kind of managing it all right, considering. It just took a while for Thatcher to come in. Yeah, but also I think his big error, as we'll get to, is when he calls the election. that's what fucks it so he comes to power in 1976 so he's the most experienced man for the job basically he's maybe the most experienced man to ever get into prime minister he's the only person to have ever held all four ministers of state but admittedly he did get fired from one from all of them yeah so he was at what i think he was like foreign secretary and he did a bad job and then he got moved to home secretary so like a sort of catholic uh priest who's going around the parishes Yeah, who's been moved around.

3:48Yeah, yeah. You wouldn't say, you know, he's the best priest in the country because he's been to so many different parishes. No, you wouldn't. No, he's got different... Who's going to get caught as a paedophile on each of them. Different paedos and different area codes. To be fair, if you're about to get caught as the Home Secretary for a paedo and you move to Foreign Secretary and everyone forgets that you're a paedo, that's pretty good. He's not a paedo, he's Foreign Secretary. Where is he? Where's the Home Secretary gone? Home Secretary was a paedo, wasn't he? The best place to hide if you're a Home Secretary on the run is Foreign Secretary.

4:13Foreign Secretary is the best job, they say. The four great offices of state for people who aren't British. If you've still listened to us and you're not British, fair fucks. Good on you. Good on you. Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, Chancellor, and then Prime Minister. Yeah. Four great offices of state. So it's money, it's domestic affairs, it's foreign affairs, and then the big job. James Callaghan, 1976, he comes to power. Now, we should place this for the thickos, these listeners who are very, very ugly, thick, smelly. I feel like one of them yeah yeah yeah we are slowly more we are slowly becoming one 1976 1976 this is should we place this we should place this shouldn't we 1976 this is after Brazil's great World Cup winning team of 1970 and it's it's before the Brazilian butt lift when was the Brazilian butt lift got to be later than 76 got to be developed in the 1960s Oh, fucking hell.

5:13Hang on, hang on. Popularity surged in the 2010s. Yeah, but that's popularity. So it was before. I never said it was when it was pioneered. I said it was before the age of the BBL. Fine, fine. It's before the age of the BBL. Kanye gave his mum a BBL and she died. Are you joking? That's how Kanye's mum died. Kanye's mum died because of his side. Because he paid for a BBL. He didn't do it himself. No. It wasn't a backstreet BBL. No, no. He said, Merry Christmas, mum. Don't get your ass sorted out, would you? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. We were talking. I think this may be the unhealthiest anyone's ever been.

5:42It's the 70s in Britain. I recently watched that, you know, The Apprentice, that film about Trump. Yes. And he's very funny on exercise because he basically was like, I want to stay trim without exercising. Yes, as we all do. So it's just like, as soon as he heard about liposuction, when he'd just come in, he was like, yeah, brilliant. Just suck it out. Has Trump had lipo? I think so, yeah. It's not fucking worse. I know, but he doesn't exercise. Because he has a view about exercise. He genuinely believes that humans are like a battery. Yes. And the more exercise, you have a finite amount of energy.

6:12Right. And by exercising, you are running that energy down. So you have less energy to... So he thinks that exercise will make you more tired. He thinks basically you've got only a certain amount of energy. Right. So if you go for like on a treadmill, you're wasting valuable energy. That you could be doing what? Grabbing pussies. Okay. So at the start of this series... Fuck. Sorry. It's been a big... I was a tired... It's been a big 10 episodes, but again... I was a tired 70s burp. I'm trying to give the listeners, the viewers, a vivid taste. What did it smell like? What did it sound like? For episode 10, we have opened the whiskey.

6:47But, you know, no other podcast is doing this. No other podcast is doing this. No other podcast is, in the face of all knowledge and demands, resolutely doing a month-long series on a period of British decline. We started this series. Normally a comedy podcast. Supposedly. but when you see the episode titled james callaghan you do question how funny can this be we started this series and britain had bombay we're ending it and all they've got is bombay mix that is essentially what britain has gone through is it's their empire has become pub snacks that's all we have now we're all we're left with is trail mix yeah it's curry spice trail mix yeah we are all throughout this all we've been trying to explain how does britain get into such a state that it elects a woman as prime minister that's what this series is about yeah 10 episodes you know relentlessly definitively proving that we got ourselves into such a state that we need a woman to clean it up yeah so james canahan the last male prime minister for some time the last war the last war veteran prime minister yeah so kind of actually the end of this era this is the end of the era and as i've said last episode yeah i think it makes a huge difference that he no one who fought in the war actually has the stones to end the consensus it takes a young a young mummy yeah uh he's quite an unusual prime minister certainly i mean i guess wilson started the sort of working class prime ministers but he's very working class grew up in portsmouth uh he also didn't go to university yeah portsmouth's got to be one of the thickest places in the country we're talking about the portsmouth wedge the wedgewood rooms is a great venue but the crowds are thick as lamb mints, which in my head is the thickest mints.

8:35Portsmouth, of course, is close to Spinnaker Tower. That's their World Trade Centre, as it were. Near Southampton, which, as we know from the Titanic series, has the highest proportion of paedophiles in the UK at time of record. So Portsmouth has got to be getting some spillover from that. Have you ever toured Portsmouth? I haven't done toured Portsmouth. Have you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of my favourite shows. but you know you often have the best shows in the worst places because they're so grateful for the slop that you're giving them you know if you don't throw slop at pigs for three days on the fourth day you'll never have had such happy piggies you ever been to Portsmouth Charlie?

9:11yeah my first love is from Portsmouth your first love? Christ what was his name? she left me under the Spinnaker Tower oh wow she left you under the Spinnaker Tower? that's where she ended it yeah you got heartbroken under the Spinnaker Tower? yeah why did she end it? she just had enough I guess and we were sort of fighting. We're good friends now. We're good friends now. How old were you? I was 22 and I, yeah, I've never loved anyone since. Wow. Really? Yeah, she's amazing. She's still, I still love her a lot, but the pain's gone. Right, so you can Google search Spinnaker Tower and you don't feel sad.

9:41I mean, I don't love it. I'd rather go to like, you know. Can't think of anything. Yeah, but she's amazing. She's from Turkey. She's from Turkey? Yeah. Yes, please. No, thank you, my friend. No, thank you. or more like no thank you my friend did you get down on one knee and she went no thank you my friend no thank you you are my friend now you are no thank you please please you are now my friend my friend zone my friend zone yes please my friend zone so right as ever this series let's see where the countries are where are we at house prices are rocketing to 12 000 pounds in today's money that's 96 000 that's a big jump it's probably the biggest jump that is frozen convenience foods are the most rapidly growing sector.

10:28Iceland. This is where... Birdseye. Yeah, this is scum Valhalla. I like how you skirted around that one. Most people, they sort of insinuate some sort of classism. But you call frozen food scum Valhalla. Most people are like, he shops at Iceland. You're like, Iceland is scum Valhalla. These people, this is where they come in. These rats are scurrying along the frozen food aisle, filling their trolleys full of awful cardboard food. Do you know what? Apparently, our view, our classist view of frozen foods is a mistake. In France, frozen foods are much more popular because it's actually worse having the chilled foods.

11:11Yes, because everything stinks. Everything stinks. You can have really high quality stuff frozen. It's just we view it as caricatona, bird's eye stuff. when it's actually in France and in Europe, it's way bigger. And we view the chilled stuff as higher quality, but it has to have more chemicals and preservatives in because it's chilled. What, over there it does? No, here. So the fact that we view chilled foods, so like, you know, we have like a chilled ready meal or anything like that, as higher quality than a frozen thing because of Kerry Katona and the bird's eye ads. Yes. You actually have to put more bad shit in it.

11:42It's not just the ads though. It's the people you see in the frozen food aisle. Yeah. What are they like? Huh? Like what? Pond life. i'm always like i wonder he's gonna try and dance around that no he runs down the wicket

11:56tell us what you really think thin um anyway this is when the pond life really start to kick off britain in 1976 the christmas number one is when a child is born johnny i don't know you know all of these elton john the world yeah i'm from the 70s the spy who loved me we're still in the era of gay bond yeah bond's gone gay spy love me it's a great film what what a theme what theme the eagle has landed fucking slaps taxi driver maybe the definitive 70s film american cinema is is project is kind of mirroring what the brits are feeling definitely i mean this is to be honest what we have time to be in new york what we left out actually is that america's in its most fucked period as well yeah because like you know the 20s in america was a boom but the 20s was fucked here huge unemployment etc etc a lot of time we don't mirror the americans certainly the 50s we didn't um but 70s both america and britain together are completely fucked what the slang for this is lemons

12:58what are van drivers shouting at women in the 70s oi show us your lemons love do you know why that is it's because the amount of frozen food means there's no fresh fruit everyone's getting scurvy people are deprived of vitamin c so like an oasis in the desert you see a pair of chandeliers you think are those fucking lemons i could throw those lemons oh i could i could squeeze them all over it's apparently if i just suck on a lemon i won't get scurvy can i suck on your lemons please um also called dibs dairies yeah i like dairies that's one of my favorites so far look at the dairies on that look at the dairies on that fairy bubs bubs is too cute fairies hate dairies fairies if it if it hates if it's too cutesy baby talk i'm getting off the train right puppies bubs no dibs you want to you want to sean die shit right yeah root one lemons look at those lemons so actually in the last episode they were just called titties yeah and now things have got so bad that it's that's food it's food it's food it's cost of living stuff yeah tits have become an essential cost of living what's this so Charlie started googling futuristic boobards chesticles 3000 data orbs silicone nebula quantum globes holodomes and this is the cyberpunk grit mech mounds circuit cushions heat sinks augmentaries astro jellies plasma pillows orbit buns andro mammaries you can't be using mammaries no i think mammary takes any of the sexiness out because again end of the 70s you know this is the this is when porn starts yeah linda lovelace yes this is what year was lovelace the 70s i think it's mid-70s yeah this is what i find interesting about the 70s is yeah the economy in both america and britain is fucked but culturally i mean my favorite films of all time are from the 70s It's because there's a darkness to it.

14:59Because there's a darkness, but also mainstream cinema, most people were going out to the cinema to watch some of the greatest films of all time. Yeah. You know, now what's selling the best is fucking Marvel films. But back then you had Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Taxi Driver. I recently watched Sorcerer by William Freak, one of the best films I've ever seen. And that bombed in the 70s because there's so much other good shit. But also people would watch like an evening of film. They'd go and watch like three films with intermissions. But also, I also think people were so lost that they went to cinema to kind of try and work things out through art.

15:33Right. And I think in a way that's kind of changed. Yes. Because the 70s cinema compared to maybe the 80s cinema, because of Vietnam, because of the paranoia, because of the kind of self-hatred, it meant that the characters were all anti-heroes and it was confusing. And yeah, I just think it's the best stuff. And it's funny that that's happening literally as everything falls apart. But that doesn't always happen because now it feels like things are falling apart. and art's getting shitter. And the film's bad. Yeah. So we went from chandeliers, we're now at Lemons. Yeah. Britain's in 1976. Instant noodles.

16:05Yeah, Linda Lovelace starts in 1972. The tikka masala, the great British invention. Finally, we're at chicken tikka masala. Yeah. Frozen meals. Fittest woman. Barbara Bach. Bach. Barbara Bach. Oh, yeah. She's inspired by Who Loved Me. Gorgeous. Oh, my God. She's stunning. Is she English? I don't think she's English. I bloody hope so. I don't think she's English. She's too attractive to being English. she's American yeah makes sense I knew it I knew it we don't have any fit women at this point we don't fit as British women it's not till Princess Di that the first fit British woman yeah she's she's the light at the end of the tunnel sorry to use that sorry to use that expression this episode is brought to you by PayPal you know how a mom's bag has everything sunscreen snacks a stapler the new PayPal app is like that, but for your money.

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18:18You know that lank yellow white hair? that's greasy. My teachers at school had it. He's got that. Music teacher paedophile. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Music teacher paedophile. This is Wurzel Gummidge. That's Wurzel Gummidge. Yeah. Dennis Healy, who ends up... These are all big beasts. Yeah, Healy's a big commie almost. Yeah, he was a commie. He's like hardcore socialist. He's got big eyebrows, Healy. He goes on to... He does the split. Yes, yes. He splits from foot. The heel splits from the foot. The heel splits. Yeah, lovely stuff. Yeah, it's good stuff. It was poetry. And there's Johnny Toes as well.

18:49the whole cabinet is just different parts of the fucking foot so Callaghan as we said born in Portsmouth he doesn't go to uni he's thick he's one of three prime ministers to not have a degree can we find out who the other two are? John Major wow Major didn't have a degree yeah it's fascinating that John in the war he served in the navy assigned to the Japanese section so yeah did he fight in the Pacific theatre I guess not many Brits did actually so um he's mp for cardiff he's sort of on the left of the party uh he's a sort of cnd kind of vibe but then he starts to get slight he's sort of the least hated of of the of the options available because he's pragmatist well he's just he's not really attached to any side of the party by the time he gets to the 70s yeah and he's got so factionalized it has become so factionalized and it will completely shatter i mean tony ben is the one everyone thinks that the revolution that's coming in the 80s will be ben's revolution right everyone thinks it'll be the ultimate work nonsense revolution right right because ben is writing uh articles about how he's gonna nationalize like baby food yeah yeah with women's own he's gonna nationalize women's own magazine yeah um gonna take everything everything's gonna be run by the government yeah uh so everyone thinks it's gonna be government uh introduced porn government porn yeah christ imagine it'd be like well kia starman we're heading that way starman's gonna be like if anyone's gonna be in the porn film it's gonna have to be me because that's nationalization kia starman's like the only way we need to take this back into national control yeah but do you have to be in it yes it's the only way it's the only way the safest thing to do is for me i can't trust that it's ethical pornography unless i'm the star of it you have to know that it's ethical and i can only know it's funny and me are going to make a movie uh video would be bunny red wouldn't it wouldn't be bunny red have i got news for you it's not started yet i'm still here by the way Ian, Paul I'm still here I'm still here You'd love to go back on these days I'd dress like this I'd go on I'd be like what the fuck because Have I Got News For You watching it feels like we visually represented this and yet they're not they're trying to deny it that they're not completely fucked like they look like this but they're still like The empire has fallen Yeah Have I Got News For You has crumbled Yeah they're in denial but we do give it a lot of shit I do want to shout I have a news for you Really?

21:10Yeah that's because you've not been on it yet. I've not been on it. Fucking shit, you shark. It was my first experience of comedy was up watching How About Those View. What a snake. Snake. What for saying that? You want to get on the market for you? It's dead. It's fucked. It can't be on. I'd go on for nostalgia. It was the first time I wanted to be a comedian was watching a rye quip. A rye quip. You want to make a rye aside and be on the run at 9pm. I have a right to make at least one rye aside for nostalgia's sake. I put it off in the bathtub.

21:38Well, you're only saying that because you've had your fill of rye cides. Three times I've been on. Yeah. I'm dropping rye cides. Yeah, so now it's easy for you to - They cut out all my filthy zingers. Yeah, but you're fucking pulling the ladder up on me, judging me for whatever. Yeah, but you've already done your rye cides. You don't want to do it. I do. No, you don't. I want to say stum is boring. You want your dad to say I love you. That's what you want. That's all the Vaginew doing, the Vaginew's for you. Yeah, exactly. That's all it is. Yeah, but you've done that. Yeah. Yeah, you've got it.

22:05My dad kisses me on the mouth. what because you've done how I got his views no but he was doing that before

22:13so the only reason to go and have I got his views is so you can get with your dad genuinely genuinely so your father-in-law thinks what you do is respectable because if he's listening to this and then you ask for his hand in marriage he'd be like can I not shake your hand excuse me can I not shake your hand can I spit in your mouth excuse me can I just spit in your mouth um right anyway right come on we're so nearly there episode 10 i've genuinely made myself ill doing this series all for you you we've lost our voice from doing so many podcasts genuinely in a festival no i did nine podcasts in three days ten podcasts during a heat wave what are we wearing suits i have not stopped talking about post-war british prime ministers I'm great chat right now at a pub were you at fucking Redding screaming at the top of your lungs no no I was I was delivering an important message I was doing a Jamaican accent while talking about Douglas Alacune or whatever his fucking name is there's not been many Jamaican accents in this series it's not actually it's not the time it's not the time it's serious it's serious Callahan Callahan hated women I'm listening we'll get to him hating women actually we'll get to that Callahan is Chancellor in 64 he fucks it over the devaluation he resigns this is what I mean he is the most experienced man to enter PM, but he gets fired from every job.

23:36He introduces zebra crossings in 1947. Fucking hell. Christ, that's Jim Callaghan. That's who we've got to thank. So he was part of his government? Yeah, he was. Wow. Fucking hell. I mean, to be fair. Callaghan introduced zebra crossings. Madness. Now, are zebra crossings used in any other country? Well, in some countries you get fined for jaywalking, don't you? Is a zebra crossing a British invention? Singapore, they bang you up. did Callaghan invent the zebra crossing 1951 in Slough yeah he did that's amazing well Fairfax that's a great invention well I think he goes straight to the top of the leaderboard I think that's amazing zebra crossing is a bit like Schrodinger's cat because when I'm drunk when I'm on a zebra crossing and someone's not stopping I'm like really passive aggressive like excuse me I'm a pedestrian excuse me you know your rights I know my rights when I'm driving and someone's waiting to go i'm like nah fuck you i'm driving past really yeah yeah i'm awful i'm awful and i'm a complete hypocrite when i'm a pedestrian i'm so pass aga anyone who doesn't stop and then i'm in the car i'm like get out of my fucking way i'm driving what grand death auto genuinely and also now i cycle i'm like i'm still awful to cyclists when i'm driving yeah i'm like fuck you with your bike yeah and then when i'm cycling and drive people are driving past i'm like fuck off you could kill me i'm just a narcissist really yeah just some different different vehicles he's credited with coming up with the name for zebra crossings after seeing the black and white stripe design saying it looked like a zebra i mean that's amazing no that's immediately less impressive because what he's then credited for is he he made the link between white and black stripes and zebras why did you call it a zebra crossing james yeah well that's him on parkinson let me tell you like a zebra but my greatest invention i remember seeing black and white stripes in the rome i remember once summering in kenya settling in for a long anecdote yeah exactly um so that's his that's his greatest achievement is his naming zebra crossings yeah 67 he's home secretary race relations act commonwealth immigration act right doubles troops in northern ireland's right in foreign now when he's foreign what's interesting even though he's like i don't know working class left wing a lot of domestic policy he's a bit of a fucking um he's boy he's a hawk yeah even when the labor party are against it he supports nuclear armament he He supports renewing the subs.

25:49I think his time in the war, he's a bit of a fucking growler. He doubles troops in Northern Ireland. Yeah. He thinks set British women's growlers on the IRA. If we'd set angry Scottish women's growlers on the IRA in the 70s. Or the Black and Tans. The Black and Tans. It would have solved everything. Genuinely. Genuinely. The Black and Fans. I say that. I hate. The Twat and Fans. I hate to, I dread to think of a Belfast growler. Yeah. The troubles. Are you? What say the Belfast are you from? And that's just the vagina speak. And then you open the, oh, Catholic, I see. Terrifying. Is there, you know how British porn is just sort of awful.

26:34Yeah. You don't want local pornography. No, it's a perscapism. You don't be reminded of how thick people. I mean, shop local, maybe for your butchers. Yes. Or your fish. Support small businesses wearing your dicks in your trousers. Yeah, but pornography do not support small businesses. Do not go local. Go big. Even though OnlyFans is a British company. Do you know that? Yeah. It's one of the few things you've got to be proud of. It's true, but I mean, think about British tech innovations that are international. Yeah. OnlyFans is one of the few things. So I have subscribed to a lot of OnlyFans as I am a patriot.

27:05You're a puss patriot. Anyway, blah, blah, blah. When he's foreign secretary under Wilson in the 70s, he has a run-in with Idi Amin who's trying to execute a British lecturer for writing a critical book about him. Type in Idi Amin's view on free speech. Idi Amin on freedom of speech says, there is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech. He's a funny guy. No, but that's what the fucking left say. It's not you call it, it's cultural pushback. Yeah. You know, you want freedom of speech. He can say whatever you want. No, but he's saying the same thing. It's like you say what you want, it's just there's consequences.

27:39It's literally the same as what he's saying. It's consequence culture. Yeah, it is. He cancels people if they slag them off. Yeah, exactly. it's just you can say what you want but there's consequences I'm going to cancel your head from your neck I will drop your head off anyway let's get to him as Prime Minister 76 he's unelected but look at that sorry it's Callaghan and Carter it's cuck central isn't it look at that the West has never been weaker that is probably yeah that's the least powerful looking partnership of UK America yeah like that is the most no one knows who Callaghan is yeah everyone forgets Carter the peanut farmer yeah and the thick guy from Portsmouth that's as irrelevant that's what the West is dealing with while this is happening the Ayatollah's taken over in Iran and we're fucking we've got nothing we've got absolutely nothing we're in the toilet yeah that's two toilets meeting that's a photo of someone flushing a toilet down the toilet when he comes to power he starts do you come to power?

28:32do I? no no I come to weakness I find weakness very deeply sexy then I get hungry um no power's not power's not sexy weaknesses victims that's what i find um anyway sorry as i was saying when he's prime minister uh he uh his time in office begins with the economy is about as bad as it's ever been yeah there's a massive recession and after a few months in office basically dennis healy the chancellor has to go to the imf yeah the international monetary fund and ask for a loan of nearly 4 000 million pounds is that a bit 4 billion i don't know i don't know because i've never heard anyone say a thousand million 4 000 million that's a child's idea that's how he says i want a loan of 4 000 million pounds sounds more than 4 billion 4 000 million it is 4 billion so it right gazillion 4 ,000 gazoongas.

29:37So he asked for 4 billion pounds because the country's in such a fucking state. So he gets this huge loan, but then it turns out that the Treasury's made like an accounting error and their sums are actually fine. They don't need that much money. What does that mean? I don't know. They've added it up wrong. But someone's added it up wrong. Everyone's fucked. They're pissed all the time. They're liquid lunches. They're nailing fags. No one is composmentist at all in the 70s. So they beg for the IMF, they go and suck them off, and then they get 4 billion. Spending was then cut from 5 billion to 1.5 billion, making the loan completely unnecessary, gets paid back.

30:17And the country begins showing some economic improvement in the spring of 78. In 77, Callaghan forms the Lib Lab Pact. Lib Lab Love. Lib Lab Love. The Lib Lab Love Pact, which is obviously live, laugh, love for deaf people. Lib, lab, lab. That's what a deaf influencer would be like. Lib, lab, lab. What would the hand signals be? Lib, lab, lab. Lib, lab, lab, lab. What do you think sign language, this is love? Genuine, Bill Clinton's sign language is this. What do you mean? Bill Clinton? Yeah, that's how you say Bill Clinton in sign. What, official? Yeah, official BSL. What if you want to talk about a blowjob?

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