“Show us your Sunday Roast, Love!”: Anthony Eden | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

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1:45Welcome back to Finn vs. History. You join us for part four. In our frolic through the managed decline of the British Empire. Jolly frolic through managed decline. We're on to Anthony Eden. Yes. There he is. The most handsome of all prime ministers, probably. Well, I was going to say there's an element of Horatio in Tony Eden, but then... I just complimented myself. No, but I take it back now. He's so handsome. He was definitely the best dressed. Can we get Anthony Eden fashion sense? Yes. He was a proper chap. Yes. Which is... We're in the era of the last proper chaps. He's the truest gentleman to...

2:18Definitely. Look at this. Yeah, he was like... Yeah, he was a fashion icon of the day. Big top hat, big coat. yeah look at this yeah lovely stuff i mean his granddad was earl grey who came up with earl grey tea right really so that's how fucking grandfathered in he is he's got he's he's from that fucking tea money he's got he's got tea money yeah there's old money then there's fucking tea money you know you know you're posh your granddad's a fucking tea yeah well like if you're um if you're like john peppermint yeah you're sorted yeah you're fucking sorted from the caramol dynasty The Camelmah dynasty.

2:56That sounds like a Chinese dynasty. It does, yeah. I mean, the Watsits dynasty, that's less. That's new money. Yeah, that's new money. That's gauche. Watsits, Quaver dynasty. Anthony Eden is in broil. You know, he's known only for the Suez Canal crisis, which has become a synonym for decline. He was only in for two years, and he really fucked it. Probably the biggest fuck up, to be honest, of any prime minister, solo fuck up of any prime minister, pretty much. Trust he's got to be up there. Again, another gorgeous Prime Minister. Wait, would you say Truss is fuck-up? Great to look at, but... You've got to save our powder for Truss.

3:31Truss is coming. I'm coming. I'm coming. Thinking of Truss. I'm coming, thinking of Truss. I'm saving Truss. Would you say Truss is bigger fuck-up than Suez? No, I'm just saying, when you're thinking of a Prime Minister who is inseparable from a big fuck-up, I think that's Truss, as much as it is Eden. But if Truss no one really knew who she was, then she became Prime Minister, then she fucked up. Eden was so experienced. Truss was a fucking page three girl that we elected because we were so horny and we got our comeuppance, okay? You cannot put - Don't elect Lucy Pinder to run the economy. We're fucking putting Kelly Brook in number 10.

4:04Of course, what do you think is going to happen? The mortgage market's going to tank. She's too fit. She's not going off going on between the ears. And Eden's fucking hot as well. Eden's a fucking hoppies of ass and you're giving him the keys to number 10. What do you think is going to happen? Of course, he's going to fuck it over Suez. You know, trust is a domestic fuck up. Yeah. You know, entirely self-made. To be fair, Eden's, he's dealt a bad hand. Yes. Because after the post-war boom, it's just starting to cool off a bit just as he gets into power. Yeah, Britain's starting to boom a bit in 1955, but inflation concerns, blah, blah, blah, monetary tightening.

4:41Ooh. Sorry, I've still got Liz Truss in my head, so I'm feeling like, oh, what's that, Charlie? that's a an edit of Liz Truss with her I'm absolutely brimming the car with her clothes off I'm absolutely bursting at the seams with the car get that off the screen get that off the screen Eden is a hot piece of ass who's been waiting to take yeah he's been it's Gordon Brown it is but it's hotter he's hotter than Gordon Brown yeah he's much hotter than Gordon Brown but it's the same story Gordon Brown was in for two years as well wasn't he he's very similar Brown was in for more than two years was he 2008 to 2010 no no 07 he came in so three years because he's 08 was the crime but again Brown kind of saves the world arguably it's not sexy people say Gordon Brown saves the world with the financial crisis do they yeah we've got to say I'm interested to hear that but you'll have to wait and see when we reach the Gordon Brown episode him and Alistair Darling saved the world okay I can't wait to hear your new Labour propaganda yeah yeah it's coming it's coming when we get to Blair we're not leaving Blair no you're like the fucking Matt Ford of podcasts.

5:48I am. I got a stoma. Matt Ford's like best friends with Blair, isn't he? Yeah. Yeah. Well, he does a Fringe show every year. It's like, would you go to the Fringe and just watch, like, that was bloody reasonable. Yeah, it's not sexy. You know, what sexy is it? I go to the Fringe for some nice common sense thinking. Yeah, I mean, centrism isn't sexy. You know, Truss is sexy. A radical, free market, economically illiterate, pin-up girl, libertarian. Essentially, it's Liz Truss's, Just trust's economic understanding can be boiled down to that little thing they had on page three where they're like, what do you think about the economy?

6:21I think the working man deserves a fair wage. And it's just over their cans out. That's the problem with trust. But we'll get there. At the moment, we are mired in the 50s. Anthony Eden, the kind of... We're actually digging our way to trust. This is the long road to trust. We've got a machete and we're cutting through the jungle at pace. Hacking through the white mountain. Get us to trust quickly. Can't wait to get to trust. Yes, you're handsome Eden, but we've got things to do. Eden and Trust, I'd say that's the fittest Prime Ministerial pairing you could have. Yes, for sure. If we're doing like blind date pairing Prime Ministers, who would have the sexiest children?

6:56Yeah. I'm afraid that's wrong. Who would have the best good looking children? Yeah. It's not really getting any better, is it? It's not worse. Who would have... Most sexy child. The most beautiful children. Got a bit horny there. The most gorgeous young boy. Super non-strikes again. Super non-strikes again. I mean, I think Eden and Trust is probably... Yeah, I'd say so. maybe the prime ministers are not a good looking bunch the british prime ministers we don't elect on looks that much and when we do when we do it goes badly we've learned our lesson atlee not a good looking fella particularly pretty average looking did a great job brown brown world save the world yeah blair started attractive full of him by the end he'd absolutely fucked it yeah um yeah blair surely gets a new teeth lad yeah everyone's saying that you're the devil incarnate don't look like him he does look evil now yeah yeah yeah yeah he does the Christmas card of Blair and the one of the all time great Christmas cards is Cherie holding Tony Black from a pub fight yeah you fucking what you fucking what I told you I had fucking WMDs yeah Anthony Eden a gorgeous man yeah one of the most qualified men to ever be Prime Minister in some ways and he was the last of the war generate politicians oh yes yeah I mean What was Eden's role in the war?

8:13Do we know what Eden's role is? Yeah, he'd been in the cabinet for appeasement. We'll get to that. We'll get to that. Before, as ever, we need to place this. Anthony Eden's reign is 1955 to 1957. So - 1955. Could you place this for us? 1955. This is post-Elvis making women have fizzy pants. The women at Elvis concerts' pants are like a fucking Chiba Baraka. Yeah. And this is pre-Elvis shitting his pants so much he dies. Thank you. beautifully placed you know before this book ends of Elvis career Ian comes to power and when women wake up after a night out they're putting their pants in a glass of water having seen Elvis and it's fizzing like a barocca like a barocca it's absolutely fizzing with sexual energy so then if you put Elvis's pants after he died in a glass of water yeah and it's bubbling it's bubbling and it's seeping and it's oozing because he shat himself to death he had a poo so big he had a heart attack god bless him the king but that's still to come Anthony Eden takes power in 1955 and again let's paint a picture the house price, the average house price is in today's money 50 grand okay so it's going up but not by loads it's dropped a bit since Churchill it was 70 grand in today's money so it's cooling, unemployment rate about 1 % unemployment's been unbelievable in the last three prime ministers but that's because everyone's died so if you haven't got a job in this era you're fucking thick when the entire population has been bombed yeah or is like traumatized yeah i mean talk about mental health crisis so many jobs to do basically as well yeah you've got to rebuild the whole fucking country yeah there's a real argument for just for just bombing coventry again and just rebuilding it yeah just to give people some work yeah apply a pint a beer one pound 79 in today's money also everyone's doing real jobs then real work well everyone's like it's like a carpenter a fucking crofter whatever yeah they're craftsmen yeah they do all jobs that like but now you fucking when you're doing crowd work what is it it's recruitment for the blokes consultants marketing for the girlies um it's just you work at a tech startup you don't know what your job is you're lost and all of my friends are lost in the bowels of a tech company where they work from home and people forget they work there and they've been there for five years doing nothing everyone's a data analyst they sit in their fucking pants yeah occasionally doing zoom calls and I, you know, because my flatmate works from home.

10:37Yeah, it's just like, are you at work? He's like, well, yeah. It's like, we're fucking cycling through a park. Yeah, I mean, we do real work. We host a racist podcast. That's actual work. Exactly. We have a trade. Yeah. We have a craft. This is a craft. Yeah. This is a craft. They would have understood this job. Well, they would just call it a podcast. Well, they would just call it a conversation, right? Yeah, in 2025, this is a racist podcast, but in 1955, this is just an honest conversation between two well-spoken young men. Patriots. They're two patriots. The Christmas number one, Dickie Valentine's Christmas alphabet.

11:08ITV is established in 1955. Right, so Love Island. And Love Island starts, the royal Christmas message is first broadcast. Muffin the mule gets cancelled. Now, what had he done? Was that a rape thing? What's Muffin the mule done to get cancelled? Is that a Saville thing? Well, Saville didn't really get cancelled. He was kind of past that. He's kind of a hero, in a way, in the outran cancellation yeah can't catch me catch me if you can um there wasn't a lot of good stuff on tv all right so it's still very it's crooner stuff yeah handsome bloke with pipes that's what you're after i want a handsome bloke with pipes i don't want this disgusting female um chub muck what does i mean you want to go with a you want to go with a woman with big chubs to see a man with big pipes.

11:54I called him Chubbs. My mistake. Look at that woman's disgusting Chubbs. Such a clearly closeted man. Put your Chubbs away, love. Talking about tits with such disgust. Chubbs. I'm sick of looking at all these women with their disgusting Chubbs outlets. Let's get a fella on. Where did Chubbs come from? I don't miss Chubbs. Do you miss Chubbs? Have you heard of Chubbs? Because me and my friends use Chubbs all the time. Yeah, I've heard of Chubbs. Do you know of Chubbs, Sweeby? When did Chubbs become a thing? I think the worst, I had a northern man at a pub say, lovely pair of top bollocks. Why are you doing that?

12:30Why are you ruining breasts? You're making them better. You're a gay man, you're making them better. Top bollocks. Top bollocks. Chebs, it's a Scottish term. Fucking chebs. One suggested origin is that it's a blend of the words chest and bollock. Really? It's a movie. It's top bollocks. Chest, chebs. Oh, hang on, hang on. Get your chebs out. Another source suggested it might be related to the term chubbies. there you go look at that lovely girls lovely chubbies I would say my favourite still is nunga nungas can we see the nunga nungas nunga nungas I don't think you can call them that anymore going to nunga nunga land didn't Churchill sort them out in the Mahmour Rebellion I'd like to propose a campaign where we get breasts called ooga boogas 50 slangs for tits let's see what what people were calling nunga nungas in the 50s yeah what were they calling tits in the 50s what they got what do you reckon what are they I'd say jugs maybe jugs has got to come in about this time yeah maybe in america it would take a while for it to come over here jugs is a british common tank boobies that's okay look at that girl's boobies okay chandeliers look at the fucking balcony on that thing they're calling a balcony god she's got a lovely mezzanine look at the shelf on that bazooms okay so bazookas i guess because the world war ii bazooka was invented during world war ii bazookas are fucking british we should we should I mean, now whose bazookas are we going to be looking at?

13:52Barbara Windsor. Young Barbara Windsor. Let's see young Barbara Windsor, please. Absolute class A smoke show, Barbara Windsor. The carry-on films. You can see why those men are gibbering wrecks. Yeah. Running about in her nethers. The fucking chandeliers on that thing. Look at that. Yeah, maybe the Overton windows passed me by on this one. No, I... The Churchill fitty was unbelievable. Yeah, she was. And I've gone quite hard, and then these folks aren't backing it up. Right, let's get the next one. Sabrina. Norman Ann Sykes. Get Norma Ann Sykes on. Who's that? Let's try and save the Eden period.

14:22Yeah, this must also be the last time there was a fit woman ever called Norma. Yeah, she's nice. She looks nice. She's also got a cracking third-party wall, if that's what we're calling them. A lovely iron curtain. Lovely iron curtain. That sounds more like an arse thing, doesn't it? An iron curtain has fallen. Well, that's because they're all doing butt stuff, isn't it, the communists? People had good bazookas, good chandeliers in this age. What are people eating? Well, rationing's ended. so meals and this is where you get meat and two veg yeah 55 so you're getting steak and kidney pie fish and chips so what do meat and two veg that's a roast dinner it's a roast dinner yeah so it's potatoes it's Iceland food no no no no this is your mum's your mum's roast my mum's what your mum's making a roast on a Sunday sorry I thought we were doing slang about oh no your mum's roast is not your mum's minge I want to see his mum with her roast out and her chandelier's showing Go on, love show.

15:17It's your Sunday roast. Get your roast out. What is it? Pork this week? What is it? Chicken? I don't want gravy. You filled this leg. Is it lamb with mint sauce or pork with apple? Lamb with mint sauce. That's disgusting. I don't know why that's disgusting. I think it just puts it on my mind, really choppy flaps. Do you know what I mean? Flaps are choppy today, lads. Out at sea. Out at sea. 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. Shop, pay, manage your account, and earn rewards all in one place.

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17:09Make your move. Order on the Sweetgreen app. Anyway, my word. So we've really danced around Eden this episode. Well, we've been painting a picture of the time. You know, he's a hot piece of ass. And it's clearly an increasingly sexualised society. They're calling women chandeliers. Oh, Charlie! Charlie, get that on. Charlie.

17:30Charlie. You can't put flaps on the screen, Charlie. You can't put a woman's lamb and mint sauce on the screen. We've got Phoebe the researcher in. There's going to be a talking head documentary about our crimes where Phoebe's voice is muffled and it's got a voice change and he talks about this in detail. Right, come on. And the poor huge vagina legs. And then the producer cut the picture off. Why do they sound like a cookie monster? I know. The nookie monsters. I don't know. I was sexually harassed at work. It undermines what they're trying to say. Oh my God. It was a culture of sexual abuse.

18:07Anyway. It should be more like this. Sir Anthony Eden calls a snap election. Again, a snap election is not a euphemism. To secure a mandate after Churchill has finally given up the ghost. The campaign is unabentable. So he just gets too ill and he just gives him the reins. It's as simple as that. Churchill's completely fucked by this point. The campaign is described by journalists as the lull before the lull. Right. So a very boring campaign. Yeah, the Labour's not doing... That's the thing. Labour have no ideas in the 50s. The only thing they're suggesting is that they want to abolish the 11 plus exams and restore free dental care.

18:40That's their main policy. Conservatives win a 60-seat majority. Right. I imagine Eden's quite popular with the public at this point. It's a smoke show. Yeah, absolute smoke show. And this is the first election under Queen Elizabeth II, which is nice. Rest in peace. Rest in power. And at this point, QE2 is a smoke show. Yeah. Fit queen. Young, a bit of a plain Jane? Nah, wash your mouth out. I'm a fucking... Let's see young... Let's objectify the queen, please. I'm a fucking patriot when it comes to the queen. she's not gonna finish your plate you've i'm finished my plate i'll lick it clean i'm not having a sister was an absolute smash yeah look at that on the far left look at that yeah gorgeous yeah she's she's gorgeous get the queen sister up margaret oh my yeah this could be the whole podcast it's just ranking margaret yeah look yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and she was a goer as well yeah she had something about her she's a real fucking goer she was nailing fags and i don't mean it out of the biblical sense i mean i don't mean it by the cigarettes i don't me know right come on come on so come on um we've set we painted a picture of the world that eden's come into now one of the most etonian cabinets in british history so so far churchill before yeah churchill wasn't eaten he was harrow uh mcmillan uh was etonian rab butler he's uh these are the people who are swilling around uh in power has a rivalry with mcmillan eden didn't like him either we should put a pin in the fact that mcmillan is foreign secretary is that will So, McMillan is our next prime minister.

20:05He's also a bit of a snake. Bit of a snake here, yeah. He's a snake. And Butler and McMillan don't get on. And so they're kind of scheming for a favour as well. But I think we need, before we get into English Premiership, we need to, who is this hot piece of us? As you say, he's part of the landed classes, descended from Earl Grey, Grand Party. World War I, he's got a pretty strong record. He's awarded the Military Cross for the rescue of a wounded man from no man's land. He made very little of this event, which is quite interesting. Yeah. It's nice. He's properly schooled. Yeah. He's like, well, don't cause a...

20:37Yeah, exactly. He's the last... He's not opening up on Diver's CEO. Which is what I want to see as someone of this generation on Diver's CEO going, well, I'm not talking about that. Can't grumble. No, it's fine. I'm alive, aren't I? Anthony Eden's favourite food, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Really? He's a straight man. Yeah. Yeah. Yorkshire pudding's bum. Roast beef has flaps. Yorkshire pudding's the arse. Yeah. But he frequently dined out, which is a euphemism for being gay. I think it is. In 19... Oh, this is amazing. Right. So in 1918, at Ypres, he's positioned opposite Hitler on the battlefield.

21:13Oh, really? And they would go on to discuss this later in life, because when he goes to the Munich conference, because he's part of Chamberlain's cabinet, he's the foreign secretary under Chamberlain, he gets a souvenir from Hitler, which is like a map with both their positions on the field. No way. where they were fighting. Isn't that incredible? Look at that. I'd love to have that map. I'd love to have a lock of his hair. I'd love to have a locket. And Hitler was reportedly pleased to hear that Eden's made foreign secretary, which is nice, isn't it? Well, he's a charmer, you can tell. He is the ultimate charmer.

21:42I think he's got an... He charmed me. He's charmed me. Because all I knew about him was Suez and I was going in with him. Anthony, you've charmed me. You've charmed me. You've got the job. Can I just shake your hand? You fucking hot piece of ass. I bet he smelled amazing. Oh, he looks like he smelled fucking amazing. Yeah. and everyone is dressing like shit in this period at the time because they've all got tattered stuff everything's sewed together they've got them well I actually well in the 30s they are but even post-war I guess it's starting to pick up now it's starting to pick up now I think because the consumer boom under Churchill yes you're right Black Friday you've kicked an old woman to death to get a nice cardigan but Eden's not doing Black Friday he's got a tailor he's got it all sewn up he's got Savile Row he's doing White Monday he's doing white most days I think the experience of the First World War would never leave him which many credit these years as informing his later opposition to appeasement and to colonel nasa which we'll get to yeah so in 1923 this young hot thing young dumb full of cum is elected to parliament and in march 35 he shadows the foreign secretary yeah i like the i like the name shadow because it implies that they don't know you're there yes it implies that you're constantly sneaking around but just trying to learn how to do a job better so he's a he's a minister in the foreign office and he goes to berlin to meet hitler yeah and they talk length about world war one and eden found the führer to possess an easy charm really even took to the meeting the souvenir map of their music position at ypres that hitler draw on the back of a menu which is nice isn't it so 1935 he begins the first of three stints as foreign secretary under chamberlain he would go on to meet starlin and mussolini was he the first of the cabinet to meet the mussolini definitely yeah i think he was the first to meet all of them yeah uh he might even to be the first western politician to meet all of them yeah uh and he resigns in 35 at sort of a protest against chamberlain's policy of coming to friendly terms with with italy more more italy than hitler but appeasement in general so he goes early this is way before munich yeah so so this is i guess this is this is even before the this is before they know people are not sure if hitler's going to be you know a goody or a bady yeah it's like don't judge a book by its cover like give him a minute and you know we don't know what kind of man this is pre-anchless as well pre-anchless This is, you know, pre-Ancholus.

23:49I mean, Ancholus is about as reasonable as Hitler ever got. I don't, Eden's made of, you know, he's a rash man, Anthony Eden, clearly. Yeah. Short-tempered. Yeah. Quick to judge. Yeah. And I guess maybe that will come in later. And then, so he leaves the cabinet, and then Second World War re-enters the government. Yeah. When Churchill enters, because obviously him and Churchill have been the main opponents of appeasement. And so he kind of becomes Churchill's little protege, really. what's the age difference when was churchill born 1974 so it's like okay well it's about 20 years i didn't know this this is crazy yeah in 1950 eden divorces his wife which so he becomes the first divorce which is you know but he later remarries churchill's niece yeah let's let's let's see if she's a smoke show because isn't that's crazy that's like your political i mean it's like fucking the boss's daughter yeah but it's such as there's so few people that are high enough class to marry within that group it's all within you know i guess you only got a pool of like 10 000 people you can pick still oh she's a graceful looking older woman yeah she's aged well we see her oh that's her and eden there sextate leaked type in sextate leaked and anthony eden sextate leaked uh so and much to the chagrin of churchill's son randolph yeah Randy Elf.

25:10Randolph. He gets angry because he feels that he even sort of supplants him as Winston's favourite son. If you're called Randolph, I don't think you can be angry because you just sound silly. Oh, are you angry, Randolph? Yeah. Who's that? Randolph's livid. There's that fat guy called Randolph who does stuff with the Sidemen. They wouldn't know any of that. They wouldn't know who the Sidemen are. Sidemen aren't around at this point. This is pre-Sidemen. Pre-Sidemen. Yeah. But I guess the war cabinet was sort of like the original Sidemen. You're right, it was. They did like football matches. You know, now they're all breaking off they were their own channels but you know yeah it's like ksis church yeah they're they're they're most powerful when they're together really aren't they so eden becomes foreign secretary in 51 for the third and final time in 53 during churchill's uh tenure he becomes really ill really fucking ill now i think this is a uh is it a gallbladder thing basically he has surgery and they fuck the surgery it's literally a knife slip they cut is it a bile duct it's a bile duct he sneezes and just fucks it someone the surgery just fucks it so can you find out what like a bile duct what does that mean why are you ill with a bile duct complaint i don't really know why are you ill why are you bile um yeah so what is the bile the bile duct is a series of thin tubes that carry bile from your liver and gallbladder so it's a duct for bile yeah i know i guess so my uh when we were in the neonatal unit where my daughter was born we met loads of other mums who'd obviously had emergency surgery because their pregnancies have been fucked up there's one friend of ours who we met there and she we were you know you're all sharing war stories when you meet them yeah and she just kept saying the word bile she was like i went green i was itching my bile was bad there was too much bile it's like a massive build-up of bile the baby was just causing bile baby was too big so there was bile everywhere so basically yeah like it's just the most fucking medieval thing yeah yeah so basically she had too much bile in her because the baby they just get four humors weren't balanced yeah she had an imbalanced humors yeah anyway so he has a bile problem and then the surgeon just fucking slips and cuts i don't know what something uh but he then begins to take this large cocktail of drugs right dexamil which is an amphetamine yeah i'm more about the ball i'm more about the boy which is a truth serum seco barbital which is a sleeping pill uh and demuride which is an opioid fuck so he's on he's on a fucking yeah he's out of it yeah he's blitzed so churchill was on the booze yeah and his foreign secretary and he's like I don't to be honest I prefer just gear I feel like it makes the hangovers better and like I'm actually I get a better come up when I'm not drinking so he's on speed and opioids yeah and a truth serum and he's foreign secretary yeah I mean, this is crazy.

27:52I mean... The 50s is fucking traumatised war veterans blitzed out of their minds leading a country. But this carried on to the 70s. Everyone until Thatcher has served in the war at some point. So this is all people who are just blitzing themselves to forget the chaos and trying to rebuild the country. So he thought Churchill would only serve for one year and then Eden would take over. Right. But by this point, Eden's so fucked. So Eden's actually trying to pull Churchill off the wheel. Yeah. And say, like, fuck off, I can drive. I'm out of the countryside. I know these roads. He's doing that. And then at some point, Eden gets fucked on opioids.

28:28So Eden works on the Anglo-Iranian oil crisis, which he mentioned lots of times, which directly leads to the coup. He does help produce peace with North Korea in 53. And on the 5th of April, 55, Churchill resigns and Eden, at long last, becomes prime minister. And he's been a great foreign secretary. He's considered a great... He's considered one of the best foreign secretaries. but it's completely it's completely wiped off with and in many ways the tragedy the irony of it is that domestically he was very bad but he was he was seen as the most qualified foreign secretary there had been and yet it's a foreign event that undoes him yeah it was said that Churchill was bad with detail he was a big picture guy and Eden was all about detail yeah and then when Eden came into power it was like he struggled he couldn't see the big picture he couldn't see the big picture he's just focusing on things he's not terrible delegator apparently he couldn't delegate tasks what Churchill was good at was getting drunk while other people did the work.

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32:16Eden had been approached by MI6 in advance about a potential die, but he'd clearly forbidden it. MI6 did it anyway because they viewed him as weak. When the story broke, Eden, who had anger issues since he was a child, was beyond furious. I mean, those sort of Victorian men getting furious. Yeah. Oh, right, right. Right. What the bloody hell. Bloody heck. We find this at the moment with our children, that we don't know how to discipline them. Because they have no respect for authority. They have no respect for us. I mean, they're feral. And then we're like, if they do something wrong, you're trying to improvise jeopardy or like a threat.

32:51So we literally go, right, right, go and stand at the wall, stand at the face of the wall, look outside. So we just send my daughter to go and stare out the window for two minutes and we're like, what the fuck? I don't know. She loves it. Well, she's just, I don't know. She thinks that's a punishment. But she's just like looking outside. And we're like, why did we say that? You've got to bring back the slipper. Yeah, we need the belt. Do you believe in smacking your children? Well, it's not socially acceptable.