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

22 Sep 2025 · 56 min · 20 chapters

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In short

Harold Wilson’s first period as UK Prime Minister (1964), framed as the start of the “swinging 60s” and a wave of social/legal reforms, alongside cultural backlash and foreign-policy tensions (Rhodesia, Vietnam avoidance).

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Key claims

Wilson is portrayed as a “social reform” equivalent to Attlee, using a “cool” public image (Beatles award, “man of the people”). The episode argues reforms are “woke nonsense” (seatbelts, decriminalisation, abortion, homosexuality, divorce liberalisation, censorship changes) and links cultural liberalisation to later moral panic. It also claims Wilson’s foreign-policy weakness was not forcing action against Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence (1965), while his success was keeping Britain out of Vietnam.

Notable examples

Beatles “I Feel Fine” (1964), Notting Hill riots, Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood,” Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial, seatbelt controversy tied to “big tits,” Murder Act, abolition of capital punishment, Race Relations Act (incitement to racial hatred), breathalysers and 70 mph limit, devaluation after the 1967 Six-Day War, and the 1968 equal pay push leading to the Equal Pay Act (1970).

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The Cultural Shift of 1964

0:03 to 0:29

Exploration of the significant cultural and political changes in 1964 Britain.

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The Cultural Shift of 1964

1:30 to 4:25

Exploration of the significant cultural and political changes in 1964 Britain.

“People start wearing human beings as gloves.”

The Swinging Sixties and Its Icons

4:25 to 6:41

Discussion on the cultural icons of the 1960s and their impact on society.

“And Attlee, who revolutionised the economic structure of the country.”

Philosophy and Social Change

6:41 to 10:40

Examination of the philosophical shifts and their societal implications during the 1960s.

“And then you realise, oh, this has actually really opened the door for Raping McGee and his friends.”

Wilson's Political Context

10:40 to 14:00

Analysis of Harold Wilson's political environment and his strategy in office.

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Harold Wilson's Background and Trustworthiness

14:00 to 14:42

Explore Harold Wilson's upbringing and the context of his political trustworthiness.

“I want to let loose the white heater technology.”

The Impact of Enoch Powell

14:42 to 15:20

Discuss the influence of Enoch Powell on British politics and society during the 1960s.

“Well, you know what, Powell's actually from the long lineage of the highly educated racist.”

Social Changes in Post-War Britain

15:20 to 16:44

Analyze the significant social shifts and tensions arising in Britain after World War II.

“He was a professor in ancient Greek at the age of 25.”

The Political Landscape of the 1960s

16:44 to 18:12

Examine the key political figures and events shaping Britain in the 1960s.

“would not have been as effective had it come from Nick Griffin.”

Cabinet Dynamics and Scandals

18:12 to 20:02

Look into the personalities and scandals within Harold Wilson's cabinet.

“But this really, as you said, is there's less economic change.”
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The Introduction of Seatbelts

20:02 to 22:32

Discover the origins of seatbelt legislation and its cultural implications in the UK.

“You have typed in Barbie asshole and I have no results.”

Harold Wilson's Political Image and Tactics

22:32 to 24:19

Explore Harold Wilson's image and his political strategies during his career.

The Rise of the Young Politician

24:19 to 26:01

Discuss the emergence of a new generation of politicians in Britain.

“Those are the three jokes I have about dildos, jihadis and pedos.”

Technological Advances and British Politics

26:01 to 28:00

Examine the relationship between technology advances and political changes in the 1960s.

“But is this the new generation of politicians then?”

The BT Tower and Its Cultural Significance

28:00 to 30:50

Explore the historical importance and future of the BT Tower in London.

“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.”

Harold Wilson's Reforms and Social Changes

30:50 to 36:26

Discuss the transformative reforms introduced during Harold Wilson's government.

“It must be, when was the electronic dildo?”

The Role of Censorship in Theatre

36:26 to 37:38

Analyze the implications of censorship in British theatre and its historical context.

“I'm slightly curious as to whether the plays were better when they were censored.”

The Role of Censorship in Theatre

37:46 to 38:12

Analyze the implications of censorship in British theatre and its historical context.

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Literature and Obscenity Trials in Britain

38:12 to 42:00

Delve into the significance of the Lady Chatterley trial and its cultural impact.

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Episode Discussion

42:00 to 55:42
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1:13welcome back to finn versus history it's the 60s things are groovy oh yeah we're we are racing through the british prime minister's post-war we're now up to harold wilson wilson but stuff starts here yeah 1964 this is it's gone from stiff upper lip to loose lower bum yeah stiff upper lip to stiff cock up an arse 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 1964 i'm just i'm stood by 1964 doing this 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 like speakeasy do you think people are fisted in houses I feel like people are fisted in in clubs and sex dungeons but I'm sure there have been some fistings 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 in 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 moon bumming sort of no one's fisting on their wedding night no and if they are no one's fisting on their wedding night pre fucking pre Wilson pre Alec Douglas Hume pre Wilson no one is fisting on their wedding night and then Wilson comes in and it's just it's all gloves are off all gloves are off and all hands are up fisting without gloves it starts here people used to shake each other's hands they used to wear a suit and shake each other's hands yeah now they wear each other as gloves.

2:52It's disgusting. 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 marigolds. 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. abama abama bin laden yeah harold wilson the king of butt stuff um this is where this is the real this is i almost feel like we should recap where we've got to because uh 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 harold wilson is coming out of the long long shadow of douglas how can you possibly you know to make a name for yourself after filling the great man's shoes 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 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 yeah takes the handbrake off everyone's fetid desires but yeah this is 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 Labor Prime Minister post-war.

4:41Yeah. 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 Attlee of being gay. Yeah, he is. He's claiming Batsy Lee. He's claiming Batsy Lee. But he associates himself with the 60s, swinging 60s. This is when, for the first time after the war, London briefly is the 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 of this series. The average house price is£3 ,000.

5:20That's about£55 in today's money. Unemployment rate, 2.4. So it's rising. Yeah. I know, it's gone down a bit. In terms of Britain in 64, the Christmas number one, I Feel Fine by the Beatles. Yeah. Banger, slaps. Are women strumming themselves to I Feel Fine? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Women are throwing their fizzy pants at the Beatles. Jimi Hendrix guitar solo, but with their fannies. Yeah, they're playing their fannies with their teeth. They're setting fire to them. Smashing them off on stage. Steptoe and Son, Match of the Day is on TV. Here we go. Match of the Day, Mary Poppins. Such a lasting legacy.

5:59I didn't know it was a 60s innovation match of the day. Jimmy Savile is on top of the pops. At this point. Ah. Well, at this point, no. 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. Rotten from birth. Rotten from birth. Should have been drowned in birth. Savile 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 bursts the door open in a way it hasn't even, no one's put a lid on it until Me Too, really. No. The 60s and Me Too is sort of bookend to the sexual revolution.

6:35Yes. 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 has actually really opened the door for Raping McGee and his friends. Raping McGee? Well, I just, that's kind of like, that's sort of like John Doe, but for the rapist. I was wondering if he was in Wilson's cabinet. No. Okay. He's an Old Etonian. So let's look at the fittest women. In spite of that, let's look at the fittest women of the age. Jill Masterson, Charlie. Yeah. Oh, hello. Painted gold. Yeah. I on my stag do I got painted gold and I didn't but 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 I think I've talked about this before in the pod did you get bummed on your stag do I didn't get bummed on my stag do no but that is what Harold Wilson was doing on his stag do right Jill Masterson what are boobs called bub bubbies what's a bubby but spelt B-U-B-B-Y bubby bubby bubby bubby and in terms of the food steaks spaghetti bolognese has arrived spag bowl spag bowl Oi, what's for tea?

7:36Spaghetti bolognese is on the rise. Spag bol. Isn't it amazing to think of this country pre-spag bol? Yeah, I can't imagine it. Can't imagine it. The lifeblood of this country. I love a spag bol with lots of cheese. Yeah, it's working class culture. Yeah. That's their foreign muck that they like, spag bol. Because spaghetti bolognese, it's slightly different to the Italian recipes, right? Yeah. It's a British interpretation. Supposedly you're meant to put milk in it. Really? Yeah. What, a spag bol or Italian ones? no but a bolognese a proper bolognese has got milk a bolognese a bolognese bolognese that's how Harold Wilson calls it but a lot of the 60s you still feel the influence it kind of it's 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 is still you know Oasis inspired by the 60s are the biggest touring like it's still the culture of the 60s well Amy Winehouse Adele they're all the 60s Yeah, it still dominates British culture, the 60s.

8:35It's never really been overturned. The whole, like, the identity politics starts in the 60s. With that... Post-modernism, basically. Who's that French cunt that does post-modernism? His name is fucking... Foucault. Francis Foucault? Foucault. Foucault. Francis Fucknugget. Is it Francis Foucault? No, no, that's Francis Fukuyama. Michael Foucault. Michael, 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 do you know, where are we how do we know that anything is anything what is the age of consent Chomsky who speaks French perfectly is like what the fuck are you talking about really 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 anglosphere'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 i want what you want the girls yeah parisian philosophers in the 80s started a proper maybe 70s national debate on lowering the edge of consent to 14 genuinely Genuinely.

9:58To 14? Yeah. Wow. Which wasn't happening anywhere because they look down at any other form of philosophy. So they're kind of on their own path. Yeah. And Chomsky basically says all of French philosophy is a load of bollocks. Justifying pedophilia. Yeah. Yeah, basically. Well, fine. But this is the age. People are now, you know, people have been educating themselves. They've been over-educated in the 50s. Yeah. And now they're getting to the point where the galaxy brain is justifying pedophilia. Yeah. In the 60s. Yeah. And I guess the post-modernism, post-war, there's still that kind of, big ideologies kind of being destroyed believing in things yeah believing in anything the church like the age of consent like the age of consent yeah you know believing in your nation believing in your church believing in the age of consent this is all being washed away now anything is possible yeah it's all fair game and Savile's on top of the pops and he's taking this in he really is 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?

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12:00It's time for race rankings. We've ranked Pakistanis high recently, but let me tell you about Karoolean Indians. Oh, they're performing well at the moment. Listen, they are hot, sexy Indians. They are some hot property. And they are top of my list of my favourite races of people right now. Wow. I mean, this is big news. I mean, you're finding out here that this is the Screen Rock podcast. This is a regular feature we do. We do a bit of race rankings. It's kind of like woke racism whilst talking about social media, really. That's our vibe. Exactly. We pretend that we want to talk about social media.

12:30Really, we want to talk about whether we prefer people from Pakistan or Brazil. And right now, Pakistan are winning, baby. So listen to the Screen Rock podcast, if that's the kind of thing. We'll see you there. Let's get back to Wilson. So in 64, Wilson is coming off the back of a rotten establishment. Right. Douglas Hume towering figure casts his shadow over everything but before that Macmillan lesser known sort of single term he had the Profumo affair blah blah blah that's just the seediness of the Tories there's been a cultural rot and corruption at the heart of the Tory party Wilson on election night postponed Stepton's son to get more people to vote what is Stepton's son it's like a classic British comedy oh right okay it had 14 million viewers wow and this encourages more people to vote when's Morecambe and Wise is this later that's later 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 it's very Blair right yeah Blair with Oasis at Downing Street really trying to associate yourself with cool people and he represents this kind of end of the aristocrats yeah he's is he working he's fresh Not really.

13:47I mean, is he a bit... Lower middle, suburban? Yeah, he's lower middle. Is he northern, Harold Wilson? Well, then he's working class then. Yeah, he's in my book. Hottestfield, yeah, he's from Yorkshire. Yorkshire, he's got that. Harold Wilson. Yeah, because everyone before this has been... And he's like... My name's Harold Wilson. The white heater technology. Oh, yeah. I want to let loose the white heater technology. His father was workhouse manager and his mother was fucking school teacher. He was plus net, you know. he was being used for his trustworthy northern accent to sell wifi and tea well this is the first time the northern accent seems trustworthy yeah exactly we didn't trust them until now no yeah they used to have to be literally riddled with sex scandals the posh to lose the rights to be trustworthy and now you've given it to the northerners 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

14:46because that's Smethic now where is Smethic Charlie and it's towns too close to Smegma does it not it does sound like Smegma Smethic is a silly name for a place Smethic is a town in West Midlands Smethic I don't want a name for the neighbours so I'm not voting Labour in Smethic that sounds like Enoch Powell well Enoch Powell comes into this famously in the 60s I don't know it's very hard to stop doing that I love that voice. Well, you know what, Powell's actually from the long lineage of the highly educated racist. Yes. He actually has a real throwback. He was the youngest professor in the entire British Empire.

15:22He 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 where when the race, most racist people - A scholar and a racist is what you'd say about people. he's a scholar of a racist. Well, Enoch Powell, Andrew Marr says, his voice though, the kind of like Cambridge, Birmingham mix that you don't really hear that often. The Enoch Powell, the posh, but on me, it's similar to the Coonsburg, posh Edinburgh. It's more of a kind of class to the stop the boats kind of attitude.

16:02Rivers of blood. Andrew Marr 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 Benn oh right these are the people that are kind of either they're in number 10 or they're just out causing trouble Powell and Benn are like on the flanks because Powell starts to kick off and Powell starts the long lineage that leads to Farage yes definitely with a bit of a spasm with Nick Griffin yes as we've discussed Griffin Griffin's not the educated racist we must present British civilisation story in the best country in the world.

16:43The rivers of blood speech would not have been as effective had it come from Nick Griffin. So a lot of, there's been a lot of immigration post-wind rush. Yeah. So for 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.

17:09There's a... Do you reckon that's what the Labour cabinet was saying? What? We're fine with it. We're absolutely fine with it. We're absolutely fine with it. And then Enoch Powell's just outside going, you sure you're fine with this? Yeah. The bloody record. There's riots in Notting Hill. There's riots in Notting Hill. Yeah. Malcolm X visits Smevik during his UK speaking tour and has a pint in the pub. Nine days later, he was shot. But is that... 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 Smethic. So I guess this is actually the beginning of, socially, the consensus is breaking apart.

17:50Yes, the post-war social consensus is, yeah. Economically, it breaks at Thatcher. Yes. But socially, having a figure like Powell and a figure like Tony Benn, suddenly there's real distinct differences between the major parties. Starting to be, yeah. As opposed to the Macmillan sort of Wilson-esque. 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 of social change. It's forced down people's throats. Yeah. You know, they've just got over one thing and another thing comes up.

18:27It's forced down people's throats. 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. he's a huge alky and he causes a problem I think when just after JFK's assassinated he goes on TV and drunkenly claims to have been best friends with him John John's about best friend he got emotional and drunk yeah I fucking love that guy I fucking love you John he's fucking sick I fucking love you mate people don't say it enough man you're fucking class he's calling Jackie Kennedy he's just the fucking do 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.

19:11So sad, man. Callaghan is Chancellor. We'll get on to him because he's at the end of the story. Roy Jenkins, who had loads of affairs, including Jackie Kennedy's sister. Really? He was a dog. Good for you, brother. I think he fucked Anne Fleming as well. Well, who didn't? Everyone's fucking Anne 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 goer. 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.

19:41Anne Fleming was not fucked here. Barbara Castle who's I think certainly one of the Barbara Castle. Barbara. Again. Not a sexy name. When do the names become sexy? No that's kind of a sexy name. Barbara. Barb's. Go on have a go on this Barb. Barbie Castle. I'm just drinking Barb from the Royal Family. Alright Barb. Barbara. Barbara. Asshole. Look at Barbara Asshole. Have you seen the Barbie Asshole. Barbie Asshole. You sound like a fucking AI. Barbie asshole. Barbie asshole. You have typed in Barbie asshole and I have no results. Are you saying one of the most influential members of Howard Dawson's cabinet was called Barbie asshole?

20:19Makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Anyway, Barbie asshole, one of the foremost female politicians of her age, she campaigns for... She basically is the reason we all have seatbelts. Really? Because when... So seatbelts are introduced during the woke nonsense of... And it's like... So people of the age are going, I'm looking for two words. Yeah. But they don't have the vernacular. They couldn't say woke nonsense because it didn't exist. 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.

20:55That's his thing that he says. On his birthday, he goes, happy birthday to the M1. You know, that's his thing. He gets a car with a picture of the M1. You have to have a thing. That's his bit, right? He's as old as the M1. um 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 because 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 and her barbie anti-big tits anti-big tits now did barbie arsehole have big tits yeah and then let's check out the chandeliers of barbie arsehole get barbie arseholes chebs out would you get her bubbies up who's Lolo Ferrari she had the biggest boob in the 60s normally you get upset if it's unrelated but Lolo Ferrari she can say French dancer actress and singer who had the largest breast implants of the world biggest puppies in the world yeah anti-seatbelt activist her death in 2000 was ruled a suicide right did she smother herself with her puppies no she wasn't wearing a seatbelt is that why 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 arsehole gets in a I don't want to see any of it what's that?

22:11I'm looking at anatomical drawings of intestines what's Barbie surgery? what's that? Barbie arsehole puts a seatbelt she does a campaign where she puts a seatbelt over her over her cheps trying to convince people that it's actually still safe and it's fine it's not anti-big tit I think the Tories have been saying it's anti-big that's anti-big tit that is and she's doing like a how-to guide she's a big reason why yeah you put them betwixt the chebs yeah yeah or you can go under your ass and route let's see okay well let's check out our 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 I'm pro big cheb I'm a chebist yeah I'm anti small cheb actually anti small cheb virulently anti small cheb so anyway uh seatbelts come in we'll get to that so harold wilson bernie yorkshire uh he's a fucking nerd he's a massive nerd right goes to oxford um meets his wife mary photographic memory fucking pervert yeah absolutely that's in there that's in the wang bang um wilson yeah wilson masturbating he goes cross-eyed he just goes it's like fucking sherlock holmes in his mind palace but just no well but porn is starting to come in right sex shops start populating yeah i know and he doesn't by any point he just goes to a sex shop and just uses photographic memory that's true what you say he goes to a service station just gets top shelf just goes like that i mean bank yeah like weakest link bank and it's just in there yeah um so he goes in the in terms of his war record uh 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 cattery and then um the cattery gets bombed and his cat his cat dies damn so 45 minutes 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 i'd love something like that but i'm lighting a pipe i'm going fucking fucking oh fuck it's like me on stage i i use really dramatic pauses when i can't remember what i'm going to say next yeah so i add i imbue what i'm saying with a lot of intellectual value a big swig of a drink people go wow i like go yeah it'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 is it what's the next word is it dildo is it pedos is it jihadi i know there's something about that.

24:51Those are the three jokes I have about dildos, jihadis and pedos. 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 with just putting 10 words in a fucking... Well, yeah, you could do like a book. You know, everyone says there'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. Jihadi, pedo, pedo, pedo, pedo, 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 laying pipe well I don't know if he loves laying pipe I think he loves laying pipe do you think yeah yeah we'll get into we'll get into his affairs when we do an episode on his second term yeah 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 that's laying a cable thank you that's poo and laying pipe is I've been using them intermittently are you sorry are you off to lay lay cable or pipe yeah instead of like piss or poo they're like cable or pipe this time yeah um so blah blah blah he's in the cabinet 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 prodigy yeah prodigy prodigy yeah yeah whatever whatever the fucking one of them uh blah blah blah 1963 makes the white heat speech and heat is the same so a lot of these people coming through are like school prodigies swats yeah yeah um so maybe they're like Can you get a video up of a young conservative?

26:19But 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 GCSEs. Exams, yeah. It's like, yeah, it's like... Let's get a few of them. Yeah, to be fair...

26:39I might do weird things, but I wouldn't class myself as weird. Because I think what's interesting is that a lot of people are career politicians that they go into and they go in 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 Keir Starmer. Those are our big two.

27:11Yeah. 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 hogging 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 heat of technology. And I think the big symbol of the age, when was the BT tower built? You pointed at me because you know what that is. Yeah. Yeah. And I know why it was in the Coldplay song.

27:44very interesting fact go on then this wasn't in the Coldplay song it's named after the Coldplay song what? the BT Tower no sorry lights will guide you home what mention of 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 songs BT Tower's lights will guide you home and I will try to fix the BT Tower

28:23the massive hit BT Tower will guide you home go on place huge top of the charts images go when was it built 61 64 64 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

28:46because it's so fucking white hot yeah um 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 it's similar to the um the thing in is it alexander platz in uh yes very much so the the ferns there to them the tv tower that looks fucking cool yeah 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's closed.

29:22The 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 2035. That's a fucking great tower. It's being overrun by poo and Indians. Campaign pain to keep the BT Tower open check if the BT Tower's getting shut down converted into luxury hotel yeah as long as it states that 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 all we've got left it's literally a script on reality I'm the biggest fan of the BT Tower in the whole country this is what we're going to make him vote before grade 2 listed yeah they better fucking what does grade 2 and grade 1 mean no idea it's how much planning permission you need to knock him down grade 1 you cannot fucking touch St Paul's Cathedral was grade one.

30:07So what was the twin towers? Well, they don't have a grade system in America. Well, that's why they got knocked down. What do you think? Do you think if it was grade one listed, I'll be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, we can't touch that. You can't go like that. It's historic. It's historic. No, they tried several times to get the planning 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 a hotel. It makes sense they turn it into a hotel. it wouldn't make sense. it's not a hotel shaped yeah it is mate anything could be a fucking hotel your car's a hotel on weekends you tramp your cousin's arse is probably a hotel for 10 minutes every Saturday night it's not being knocked down okay good fine thank you along with the beachy 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 yeah the britain that is going to be formed in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for the restrictive practices of the outdated methods from either side of industry why is the white heat speech so um 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 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 VHS.

31:32I mean, so is that. It must be, when was the electronic dildo? Not deep heat, Charlie. Check when the first 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 Mortimer 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.

32:08The white heat of technology. Modern dildo. When was the modern dildo? We should actually... Is that a steam-powered... Sorry, Granville'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 and it's after Elvis no it's after Cliff Richard 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.

32:57He says murder should be illegal. Insane. Insane. He criminalises murder. Who have we elected? This Bin Laden's in number 10. This extremist. He abolishes capital punishment, which I think the last hanging in Britain is 63 or 64, I believe. With Pierpoint. There's a film about Pierpoint. You know Pierpoint? No. He's the great executioner of Britain, who was actually anti-capital punishment in the end. He killed 600 people. Fuck. Wow. wow he's a he's a professional hangman yeah 600 it's crazy oh yeah that's right yeah i read about this he so he did like some of the um the nuremberg nazi war criminals oh did he and then he yeah and then but then he also he came back and he starts doing like a kid who's um done like an armed 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 smaller rooms that's it you can see the color of the seats peter allen and gwyn evans are executed so he so he abolishes capital punishment the race relations act introduces incitement to racial hatred as a criminal offense right cigarette advertising is banned relations act 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 you know that's a in America where you can sort of say whatever.

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34:19Right. This is our view of, we have a more limited free speech here because it can be done. Because you have to incite to incitement. 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 some absolute woke madness. Driving reforms, breathalysers, 70 mile an hour speed limit. Wow. Seatbelts, which again is anti-tittist. Yeah, I mean, think about the furori, what is it? Furori. About Sidney Sweeney For Rory For Big tits For Rory But think about that About Sidney Sweeney's tits That are now seen as like You know Anti-woke racist They're racist And then the woke nonsense Are trying to get rid of them With seatbelts Yeah You know Sidney Sweeney's not built For seatbelts No she shouldn't have to wear them No She should have an exemption On her driving license

35:10On Sidney Sweeney's driving license Does she have a thing on the back Yeah Saying exempt from seatbelts Yeah 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 yeah i think and he basically he's like the bavan of this government bavan he knocks these all over it's like he's a bowling bowling alley one ball yeah abortion gone fucked out the window or decriminalized so it's like the opposite of Roe v. Wade yeah male homosexuality male decriminalized really well they don't really they don't believe we still don't under we still don't know if female homosexuality is a thing yeah we barely know if female heterosexuality we don't know if the female orgasm exists it's a myth it's a Greek myth we will be doing a Patreon episode on the myth of the female orgasm divorce laws are liberalized which is this is where Peter Hitchens gets off the train and thinks that Britain's went in the toilet.

36:12Yes. He thinks when you, when you liberalize divorce laws, suddenly you break up the family unit, which means that crime happens. I don't know what his logic is. Voting age dropped to 18. The Open University launched. This is a slew of woke nonsense.

36:31Theatres are... Uncensored. Uncensored. I'm slightly curious as to whether the plays were better when they were censored. 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 Prime Minister 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.

37:10Yeah. He sounds like a guy who's 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 it and be like, this is a bit smutty. Yeah. So if some horny playwright were in a play about like... Bigger tits. Bigger fucking chebs. That's him. That's him. That's the current Lord Chamberlain. So now... He decided. Pre-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'd just call it a gay player. And he'd be like, that's illegal.

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39:04The Sandbrook says this is the beginning of the 60s, basically. This is actually the hinge. Obscenity trials. So even though this is before Wilson, I still want to mention the Chatley trial because it was seen as this hoity, like this old establishment who couldn't deal with anything prude trying to use obscenity laws on this kind of smutty book called Lady Chatley'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 Hitchens says this is the end of British culture. But if it hadn't been for this, if they hadn't legalised smutty books, women would not be able to read anything because all women read is filth.

39:47All they read is smuck. It's not just Fifty Shades of Grey. It's now fairy porn. Fairy porn is 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 read it. 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 thorn and roses.

40:19There's also a deal with the elf king. It's all fairy dragon porn. Yeah. And Peter Hitchens was right then. Well, stop clock. Yeah. Peter Hidgen is actually right several times a day. Yeah. But A Court of Thorns and Roses. Yeah. 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.

40:54And only now men are starting to be like, what are you, sorry, what have you been reading? What are you girls? What are you doing there? 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, it lasted six days that focused on whether the book's literary merit and potential public good outweighed its perceived obscenity. The defence argued that the exploration of human sexuality was important for public understanding.

41:33Can we get some quotes up, Charlie, of the obscene moments in it? Because it'd be good to understand what is obscene. Even though this is not Wilson, it still sums up the age. No, but it's the 60s, isn't it? What is obscene about the book? Bestseller, by the way. One specific 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 heaves heaving my penis that's all I'm doing 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 no one's gonna get rid of that any other quotes?

42:18fly tipping 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 Blue's documentary where she fucks 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. Exactly. It's an invention. It's as fictional as fairies and elves.

42:49It's invented in 1960 by the Lady Chatterley'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. Yeah. And they're chasing after this female orgasm and it's hard to explain to them that it doesn't exist. So Roy Jenkins, reform after reform after reform, you know, in seven years, the country's completely changed socially. But what about Wilson's foreign policy? There's a lot of quite fruity stuff in Rhodesia, 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.

43:31Yeah. 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 discussed, white settlers are the hardest fuckers of all. They are. Yeah. Why don't you go fuck yourself? Yeah. Can you, 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 or northern Rhodesia anyway Zimbabwe blah blah and Zambia so he issues a unilateral declaration of independence from the commonwealth which yeah so you'll remember Zimbabwe at this point is similar to make up to South Africa so there's a lot of white Zimbabweans white Rhodesians who are just Zimbabwe Zimbabwe just I love the way they say Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe so you're not meant to be there clearly nah Zimbabwe this is pre Mugabe 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 1965 so boycotting Rhodesia likes Africa 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 and 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 invasion and Smith might have backed down and Rhodesia's a lot like South Africa it's just that Rhodesia had Mugabe and South Africa had Mandela yeah and they're the same Mugabe Mandela tomato tomato but Mugabe's whole thing was how about we just kill all the farmers yeah and just give everyone who doesn't know how to farm the farmland yeah and uh 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 what am i meant to think yeah why am i turned on why am i turned on why are you why am i hitler we will do an episode on mugabe sorry i thought you could say we're gonna do an episode of the why are you gay guy?

45:47We will do an episode on why. 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, it'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. Yeah. Like we discussed last episode, standing over little Wilson with his hog out. Yeah. Shitting on the toilet saying, come and get in Vietnam.

46:26And he's going, just send like one squad, one fucking regiment. Just because it will help us in the international community. A token just to say that we're not on a limb here. Yeah. And Wilson goes, no. Yeah. But he won't condemn. And most prime ministers probably would have buckled. Yeah. But he doesn't condemn America for invading for invading because that would then jeopardize the funds that they're getting. Yeah. And that means... But it's a sour relationship for a bit until Vietnam's such a disaster that I ain't never But also what's interesting is that his party will hate him because he won't condemn America.

46:56Right. 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. Yeah. 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 have people seen devalue the pound they say it's going to be all right and then it's not all right well 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 until the last minute some they don't devalue it and someone goes oh we have to now let's have your hands and then they fuck it because as we've been discussing this entire series, the Arab-Israeli war kicks off in 67.

47:47Is that Yom Kippur? Yeah. No, it's not. It's the Sinai war. It's a six-day war. Right, six-day war. And they turn the fucking lights out. Here we go. So when's the lights start to get turned out? 67. 67. This means that they have to - Precursor of the 70s. They have to devalue it. And so Jim Callaghan, who is chancellor, resigns uh did you ever see the knife put more deliberately into a leader's back sterling goes from two dollars eight blah 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 yeah anyone going abroad's like well it it means less yeah i've got less savings yeah i'm fucked middle class yeah the middle class he Lose the middle class, which is always what happens when Labour fuck up.

48:39They lose middle class and then gone. So this signals that after this, everyone thinks he's slippery. Yeah. 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 did the Beatles stop recording? They break up in 1970, I believe. 70, yeah. Yeah. My dad basically has that. He might as well have it tattooed as a trap stamp.

49:16Yeah. The Beatles career. He's got Beatles autism. Just above his arse. Women want equal pay. This is a Ford sewing machinist strike in 1968. Blah, blah, blah. Women want equal pay. Barbara Castle comes in. Arse castle. A Barbie arsehole. Barbie arsehole comes in and goes, yeah, you should probably pay him 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 an election. They go, I don't know if we can back this. Does the country want this? Yeah. I think we need a woman date for this.

49:59Yeah, we do. Super tax. Yeah, we need to talk about. So after the devaluation, Labour 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 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 inspires the Beatles song Taxman. Right. So 95 % - That is bonkers. Just goes to the government. So in his first term, It was a pretty socially a transformative premiership that... You could argue it's too much too quickly. Okay. How do we socially?

50:43One could argue it's too much. Wilson loses the middle classes, but he has, he leaves office with having done this... Long-lasting reform. This slew of cultural reforms that are still with us to this day. Abortions allowed. But once again, sort of like the Attlee government, Within two years, he does a huge amount of changes. And it sort of runs out of ideas. But a lot of it's not him, similar to Attlee. Roy Jenkins actually does everything. But there's a lot of similarities between these two radical Labour governments. They come with a great set of ideas, implement them all, and then it... But that's kind of what Labour is, isn't it?

51:20It comes in once in a generation, does everything that needs to be done that the Contoris will never do, and then won't get elected again 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 coal's a thing I don't know what what's going on is it in the ground do they find coal coal coal's in the ground it goes on trees it's like apples you have a coal orchard yeah you have a coal orchard yeah but is it like is it just like in the soil or is it you get pickaxe and you really i think it's do we have mines oh yeah coal mine

52:07yeah right where do you think oil comes from sky sky oil yeah oh no it's from the ground too yeah from the earth's core so i think you could basically define um wilson's career from the white technology the optimism to the pound in your pocket disaster yeah that kind of bookends his popularity and his failure, right? Starts with white, he ends with a pound in your pocket. Yeah, exactly. And that's kind of it. A great moderniser socially. Economically, he's done nothing really to shift the consensus at all. But the consensus is started, the Attlee-esque worldview is starting to, under the globalised economy, when another country can turn your taps off, the kind of national socialist economy, non-national socialist.

52:58Sorry, what? Sorry, I'm listening. I'm listening. The socialist economy, it doesn't really work in this new world. We're beginning 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 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, which is Britain's lowest point. It's Britain's lowest point. Britain's never been funnier.

53:33I think it defines so much of, it's the great turning point, really. Britain is Greece. Yeah. It's toilet. With worse food. With worse weather. 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 opening 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. Mummy! Mummy!

54:05Nursing us back to health with her Null Chebs. Now, next episode, Bloody Sunday, Miner Strikes. The EEC and the rudest prime minister this country's ever had. Someone I'm incredibly excited to get onto, the amazing Ted Heath. That's already on the Patreon, along with the entirety of the rest of this series. for three pounds a month you can become an official tard join the Patreon you'll get a badge you get a badge it's like an upside down blue pizza badge you get the opposite of cologne where you smell worse if you've got a girlfriend she'll leave you someone did stop me in the street and said that the Zulu special nearly caused him to break up really and I said why and he just went it's too funny isn't it so if you're struggling in your relationship and you'd like a quick out join the Patreon show your girlfriend some of the stuff bish bash bosh see you next week we'll see you next week for Ted Heath goodbye

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