The Belgrano was a War Fine | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 3/6)

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1:43welcome back to fin versus history it's war i'm with the ratio called this this is our what is this part three the empire strikes back part three of thatcher and the falklands we're in the heat of war yeah the argentines those slippery gaucho fucks have invaded our islands those filthy argies they're on our border our southern border and argy bargy in the in the south atlantic and there is shock in london following governor hunt that brave man with an ostrich feather yeah his surrender in port stanley and what does mummy say what does mummy say mummy is up at the crack of dawn as usual and what is this a quote from her right here yes six before 6 a.m i could not believe it those are our people our islands our people our islands now the foreign secretary immediately resigns fair enough it never happens anymore is it because he should have been protecting them i think is the job's too big for him i think it's just that right it's quite embarrassing he say he takes full responsibility for failure to fall through the invasion okay fair enough is this lord carrington who i believe is one of the best foreign secretaries supposedly that we ever have really he's meant to be like top talent and he immediately resigns fair enough because of some gentlemen because some scrap metal dealers have taken south george and he goes right i can't i can't carry on nowadays it's great i should kill myself generally he's he career career spooker lord carrington a war cabinet is formed within hours wow thatcher is immediately her the the hairs are standing on the back of her neck She's fucking fizzing.

3:15She's born for this. Her knickers are fizzing. Fizzy pants Thatcher. She's got a fucking Barocca in her big pants. Thatcher only wears big pants. Thatcher wears the biggest of big pants, I think. And then maybe a light peach colours for sexy time with frills at the bottom. That's her lingerie. What are you doing? What are you doing here? I'm meant to be podcasting. Excuse me. Excuse me. This dick is not for turning. This dick is not for rising. yeah charlie can you find the sort of biggest pants possible because that's what i imagine that just right right so is this like dennis's birthday no no these aren't sexy pants these are mummy everyday these are war pants fine everyday mum pants you know when women give birth their the size of their pants increases like that yeah that's mummy's pants but do you think there's like a curve of like uh because obviously thong is sexy and then it get the bigger the pant is you think it comes round again I think it gets really sexy once it becomes like massive it's kind of sexy it's like farm mummy farm sexy farm lady she's got what's the least sexy least sexy is kind of like somewhere in the middle when it's like neither a thong nor like mad parachute mad parachute so just normal pants I like parachute Thatcher is going to parachute over the foreclines holding her pants yeah I think Thatcher puts on a different pair of pants for when she declares war I think she has a draw and they're all labelled she pulls it out and there's a special war cabinet.

4:42She's got a whore cabinet and she's got a war cabinet. And they're very similar. Yes. It's just one slightly pinker. Yeah. That's it. Shades. And it's a faded peach, actually. Shades of apricot. Yeah, it's apricot pants. Apricot pants. Early intelligence is uncertain. One report wrongly claimed that there are hundreds of Argentine casualties. I mean, who's reporting that? I don't know. Governor Hunt, maybe? Charlie. Now, the Ministry of Defence scramble to get maps that have the Falkland Islands on them. Yes. That's how much these islands are British. Yeah. In that it takes colonial era, 19th century hydrographic charts to find where the fuck the Falklands are.

5:23Where are they? I want them back. Thatcher says, if they're invaded, we have got to get them back. We can't, her defence secretary says. Defence secretary, pussy. Absolute wet, John Knotts. Come on. Thatcher asks the first sea lord, Sir Henry Leach, can we do it and leach says we can prime minister and though it's not my business to say so we must if we do not or if we pussyfoot in our actions and do not achieve complete success we shall be living in a totally different country whose word will count for little he's not wrong to be fair fires me up leach stood up yeah jack leach i like the way he's basically saying i shouldn't say this yeah i'm about to drop a truth bomb yeah and if and if you disagree i'll i'll sepook him myself yeah in the un resolution 502 passes 10 to 1 panama vote against which you know what nuke them fuck them fuck panama i think we nuke panama before even argentina just as to you know send a signal what even are you you're a canal and you're a hat you're a fucking canal you're a fucking canal mate yeah you shouldn't even be in the united nations you're a canal you're a commuter town yeah exactly why are you not why have we not got what has venice got a seat in the un does it Yeah, let's make the canal bigger.

6:36Birmingham. Yeah, bomb it. Bomb Panama. What was the score when England played Panama? So I think these hats are bringing out a side toss. Bomb Panama. I think it was like 8-1. I was on pills. I hadn't slept and I was on ecstasy. What, in the World Cup? 6-1. Every single time I looked at the screen, there was a goal and it was the best game of football I've ever seen. 6-1. It was the first time I've been watching the game where people have got sort of bored when the goals are coming. I remember that. It's never happened. It's like the fifth one. I was fucking flying. And then Harry Kane scored the worst hat-trick of all time.

7:05Two pens and then someone kicked the ball against his heel and it went in. Yeah. Resolution 502 passes. It calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities, the withdrawal of the Argentinians and a return to negotiation. But the Argentine, they ignore it. Ignore it. Ghost us. They do. Leave us on read. Within 48 hours, Thatcher authorizes the deployment of forces. Yeah. She, as a young girl, she is obsessed with Churchill. Right. She fucking loved Winston. Yeah. And this is her moment. Green flag. I'd say hey someone who's obsessed with church from a young age oh right so green green flag what insurance yeah that's the first thing I thought of but is is that a joke or is that a saying green flag no it's something that people say what's a yellow flag like she that's what I want to know she loves yellow flag but she hates me me the brown flag about Charlie is that he shat on my white flag yeah brown flag now bear in mind thatcher's called for the deployment she says right we're going in boys boys go in this is when she starts calling the troops our boys yeah this is the mummy the myth the legend everyone's invading with a rock on yeah exactly yeah the bit the big the big general milf they all they they come in their squadrons they see her get an erection turn around and go to the falklands well they all do it systematically well it's um it's the raising the flag isn't it of course It's they all stand there, and then they're off.

8:31Yeah, rising the Union Jack. Now, this is what they face, okay, the British Armed Forces. No forward bases, an 8 ,000-mile supply line, winter storms, and no recent experience of large-scale naval conflict. Yeah, because, of course, Argentina have about, what was it, 300 miles, and they can refuel, send resources. The British need to go to Ascension Island. So that's just off the coast of Africa. Yeah, get a map up, Charlie. Nearish the Canary Islands. Charlie, get a map up of Ascension Island, right? So I imagine, is that a British island? That is a British island. It's literally a rock. Right, another one.

9:07But I guess that's why you need these rocks. Right, so Ascension Island is in the middle of... Right, that's really... It's probably like the middle of the world, pretty much. Yeah. It's just south of the equator. And so there's airfields there, and that's where a lot of the bombers are going to come from. Yeah, so... Because we've got no landing strips anywhere else that's near. Thatcher's approval rating, which at the end of episode one, and we got she was near nearly 23 or something overnight it skyrockets to 50 yeah right people are suddenly like well well she's our mummy yeah of course mummy's in trouble now her her sternness has come in handy now before it was like she's taking money away from me and now it's like i'm now we're hiding behind mummy's blouse yeah exactly the whole country is quivering behind mummy's big pants hiding behind mummy's pants yeah before the invasion british public opinion was clueless as to where the islands were and what they were called.

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13:14Plus, get a free professional measure at Blinds.com. Rules and restrictions apply. Newsweek on the 19th of April, 1982, ran with the headline, The Empire Strikes Back. Big photo of an aircraft carrier. Come on. Fuck yes. Is that before Star Wars? No. Do you think that's where Star Wars got that from? Maybe. Yeah, Star Wars, I guess it's like an allegory for the Falklands War, isn't it? Famously. Yeah. You, I am your fire. It's a prophecy, isn't it? Yeah. We should place this because as we've just evidenced, Charlie's got no idea where we are in the world. So Star Wars is 1977. Okay. So the Falklands War is 1982.

13:48So it's just after Star Wars. And it's just before Star Trek Next Generation. Is that the one with John Luke? What's he called? Patrick Stewart. I don't know any of the Star Trek stuff. I tell you what, it's before Patrick Stewart takes on James Corden at the awards ceremony. Oh, that's that. Should we watch some? Please get it up. I don't want to watch it. Oh, it's juicy. I actually find it kind of unbearable. Your belly. It's so good. Because he doesn't nail it. Who comes off worst? I think Patrick does. I don't know. I think both of them. No, no, no. I think I think it is James isn't it If he left it there when the presenters are up here and when the recipients are receiving their own Seething those is a nasty and at the back of the stage with your hands in your pockets Looking around as though you wished you were anywhere, but here.

14:37Oh, you couldn't be more wrong You couldn't be more wrong. Oh Genuinely, if it looked like that, I'm so sorry. But when you come up and present an award, just get on with it. There we go. From where I was sitting, I can see your belly. It's not good. It's not good. It's not like, and that was right over there at the back of the room. To be fair, that is very funny. Stop it. That is very funny. I could see your belly, and I was all the way over there. as well. Which is Marl's way. It's such bad gear. It's not good. From where I was sitting, I could see your belly and that was all the way over there.

15:17I was really, really far away. Your belly's massive. Your belly is really big, by the way, because I was all the way over there. You want to be tighter, a bit more of a punch. He's a Shakespearean actor. He's not a script writer, but you know, he says he's an actor. He needs someone to write his words for him. But why was he so upset? Was it just because he was sulking at the back? Guys, people hate James Corden. Like, yeah. But it's just interesting because it's a bit it doesn't feel like the brand he has for him to go out and put his neck out I would say the story I've heard about him but he follows me on Instagram so I'll keep it with the Patreon but there's some good gear about Corden anyway about Corden yeah yeah yeah I mean yeah Corden there's a million bad stories but is that why Patrick's doing that it feels like he was genuinely perturbed by his facial expressions no he's just he's a comic he's just riffing from where I was sitting I could see your belly and I was all the way over there in the back you're better than him and then he was excited about that second line you're really big you're really fat fat pig fat pig James you're a fucking fat pig that's what I would have said they're just you know you've got a man who's a Shakespearean actor trying to be jovial and then just the least charming man there's ever been Corden just can't I don't know there's a disconnect between him thinking he's trying to be charming I think they both come across pretty bad the glamour awards are the loser here the real loser is the glamour awards people that haven't seen my belly is there anyone who hasn't got a...

16:39It's just there. Oh, and then he gets it out. I mean, he's fired up at this point. Okay, can we get a taxi ready, please?

16:51The old man going home. Okay. Oh, he does it. He goes back. That's it. He does a black at the end. The old man going home. The old man going home. That's where he loses it. Yeah, James, keep it on the fat phobia. The old man going home. shit man the old man going home i didn't know he did that that's crazy i would go so red i think it's like a heavyweight it's a heavyweight bout and both people are punching themselves in the face on the floor like no one wins that it's just everyone comes off awful but even when she came and says i like your belly that's kind of i find that kind of bad i like your belly yeah should be as you feel like let's not slag each other off or something like that not like i like your fat fucking massive fucking belly no i like your wobbly gut i like seeing it from where i was saying which is all the way over there personally i think pigs are my favorite animal so i love pigs um but in many ways patrick stewart and james corden fighting is would you agree it's similar to britain and argentina fighting about the fours has quote about it two bald men fighting over a comb yeah that that is what this is and i think two kind of arrogant pricks fighting at the glamour awards genuinely it's two overpaid arrogant toss pots arguing over an award ceremony this is relevant and i'm going home oh my god home and that's what that just says about argentina oh she's going home um in in you know it happens it happens uh every now and then on this show that in placing something we come up with the perfect analogy for the topic we're talking about when was the glamour was that just to make that must have been in the early 2009 yeah 10 11 early 2000s I think it's 2010 2010 wow nice okay so the Falklands War in 82 after Star Wars and it's before Patrick Stewart and James Gordon War of the Stars War of the Stars it's really good stuff it's very good stuff so a poll on the 3rd of April showed 80 % of Brits support military action because that's nice that's nice to see isn't it you've got some fucking belief come on only 3 % of this country are wet traitor traitor cucks 3 % I don't think history looks well on them because it is like I feel so it's Corbyn it's Tony Ben yeah my mum and dad really well I don't know if they're in the being the 3 % but they were embarrassed by the whole thing it's so funny that they've raised you I know and my dad's raised me yeah I guess you rebel against what you exactly it's yin and yang my mom when my mom talks fuck you mom i respect facture i'm cartman basically when mom talks about thatcher she just says the whole thing was just embarrassing that's what but at this point she's at cambridge she's a fucking she's a student at cambridge yeah i mean she's not the real she's not a real she's not in the real world middle england no the heart of the country she's a presbyterian scott has gone to cambridge yeah her life's all you know what i mean she doesn't need it her head's in the clouds whereas someone who's fucking the mines just been closed your dad your dad who's they need it your dad is trying to transition from a life of crime into business in the east end that just is god fires them up yeah but also what's interesting is that when when blair invades iraq uh a lot of the country the majority of the country are for it and everyone forgets that because there's a million there's a million people march against it really well let's it's the same as brexit check that in the same as brexit i reckon i'd like to fact check that in 10 years time after brexit or whatever or that's about now i guess but you'll you only remember you only meet people who say they were against it but brexit was a referendum so you can't say that but at the time this is different this the whole point 54 percent of britons were in favor of uh going to war okay i mean i guess just and then 56 in march 38 you opposed it and then as soon as it happens they all oppose it okay but it becomes fashionable to oppose it because now it looks still 50 it's about 50 50 it's it's on the line it's not like a majority 56 yeah this is 80 percent yes because it's the forklands and they actually they actually matter to us they do yeah iraq who gives a shit do you think he was trying to have his own forklands with iraq blair yeah what in the way that i don't know he was trying to in the way that probably backfired thatcher was trying to have her own world war ii and blair was like i need a fork yeah i mean we genuinely we really could do with the Falklands right now.

21:18Can we find a shit island in the middle of nowhere? Because I don't want to run that shit back because I think it's kind of boring we've been there. We need a new island, new random country. Who would have thought? Random enemy. Pick a random country. Charlie, find an island and who are the owners of it? Right, I just put Yemen. Clipperton Island. I've been sort of fighting Yemen. The Houthis. Clipperton. Clipperton French Coral Atoll. What's the nearest country to the Clipperton? Where is it? It's in France. It's in the North Pacific. It's 1 ,000 miles from Mexico. Right, let's take a flag on the Mexicans.

21:49Fuck it. They've had it too good for too long. We want our Clipperton back. But do you know what I mean? We're in a similar position to the 80s and 70s. Yes. Doom spiral. It could like really fire us up. Look how small that is. Whoa. Yeah. So that's not even an island. That's in the toll. It'd be great just to send the boys out there. They need a runner. Yeah, they do. Let's take Clipperton. Let's take Clipperton. Because what Falklands was, it was sort of like a prestige friendly. It was when we beat Germany 5-1 in Germany, it was a friendly. I don't think it was a friendly. It was a friendly.

22:20Oh, no, it was qualifying. It was qualifying. Sven-Goran Eriksson's finest hour. Yeah, just fired us all up. When Emil Heskey devastated the German defences. Like a Dresden bomber. Emil Heskey flying over Dresden. Anyway. I guess they're not allowed to make those jokes. Do they ever say that? Sorry? Germans never make those sort of jokes, do they? They can't really. What, about like how like... Fucking Miroslav Kloser. Karsten Yanker is the blitz bomber. Yeah. No, they're not. But that's because we won. Yeah. Whee! Speaking of other things, we won. But it's basically... It's basically... What became clear is we're better at war than peace, basically.

22:58100%. This country is at ease with itself when we're fighting someone. Yeah, of course. In peacetime, we don't know what to do. We have no idea. No idea. Yeah. Now, Ronald Reagan was obviously president during the conflict. we are we are poor that's going yeah we need it made sense when he was playing football yeah and now he's fucking turning up raul moat's house exactly he needs something um anyway we did raul moat on the patreon ronald reagan is president during the conflict and his secretary of state who's called hague he begins shuttle diplomacy between london and buenos aires and he is trying to prevent quote two friends from going to war sure because both sides are virulently anti-communist the argentinians actually when they invaded they think the u.s will support them because they're they're to be fair they're more anti-communist than thatcher because that just not electrocuting poets just testicles and they're just important you know stop stopping the growing communism in south america very important for america yeah these states um so haig privately describes the argentine junta as emotional erratic and not well informed now thatcher meanwhile is busy assembling the largest british naval deployment since world war ii here we go 100 ships involved it's the freedom flotilla i mean it's a free hit is what it is around 30 000 personnel at its core of the aircraft carriers hms hermes uh which is not the delivery company uh that would have delivered to the wrong address yeah um and there's hms dpd hms prime and hms invisible invincible they requisitioned cruise liners a pno ferry oh really all the marines on a on the qe2 all the people would like sunning themselves yeah on the boat you're throwing in the ocean i listened to a podcast from a journalist who was on that ship he said it was a fucking party until the until like a week before they deployed they were just going around ascension island all the marines on a cruise ship with like a bar and they're just you know it's just they're all 18 year old boys in newcastle just fucking having it large yeah so within this is this is remarkable within i think it's three days the task force from the invasions on the 5th of april is it the task force is fully ready to go even though there's been cuts after cut every government's cutting more years of master client we've cut everything yeah um dockyards work round the clock to fit ships to load stores improvised defenses many sailors are called up so suddenly they leave food in the ovens yeah apparently the crew report rats emerging from long unused compartments on the ship they need to requisition tin food they're blowing the dust off the old gear get it fired up start the car you know dads are coming out their sheds yeah they're excited crowds in portsmouth they're chucking their cardigans off yeah let's go for it linda they need me crowds in portsmouth are waving the union jacks get that footage up charlie this is amazing this is the like it feels good again to be british yeah never has portsmouth seemed optimistic but it just britain makes sense it makes sense that's the thing it does at the moment it doesn't really make sense no it doesn't quite work now one of the heroes of the forklift of course we must talk about him is hrh prince andrew yeah uh obviously he has been victim of a sustained defamatory campaign in the intervening years disgraceful disgraceful this guy just likes islands he's a war hero he's a war hero okay he as we'll get to the next episode he's an island hopper famously you know the best way to stop a guy going to a bad island is to get him to a good island the only way to yeah the best defense against a man with a bad island is a man with the good island yeah exactly now uh there was a lot of talk about whether they would send uh prince andrew because he was in the was it navy or the air force at this point um oh he's a royal navy helicopter pilot um and there was a bit of toing and froing as look at queen's favorite son yeah pre-epstein he's busting his nuts so much at this point no wonder he's smiling like that he's in the navy yeah um there was discussion over whether he should be kept off the front line if he was killed it would obviously be sort of national trauma if he pulled out not that he's it would look like special treatment in the royal family so the decision much as it was with Harry later on in Afghanistan was that he stayed and it was politically safer to treat him as if he was just a normal officer but also at war you've got to play to your strengths we've got to use every resource we have so I think air pedos that's what we've got do you know what I mean we should have got Savile up there you know what it's like in Game of Thrones what are you saying about Jimmy Savile sorry i didn't mean to say what you're saying about sir james savile all i'm saying is it's like dragons in game of thrones get a photo of savile up sir james savile this man you're saying this you're saying this man who seems to be wearing 3d pedo glasses you know what now i've seen an image of him yeah i just don't believe that he did any of that stuff this is all hearsay gossip and scurrilous river.

28:02It's a heresy. Sir James Savile, Knight of the Realm, that man there with the cigar. You think he was Sir Nonce of Pedoshire? I don't believe it. I don't believe it for a second. Don't believe it with his red glasses? No. He looks like my nana at a Halloween party. I won't take this slander. Anyway, you were saying about prison. But basically, you know, in Game of Thrones, you know, some kingdoms will have dragons they can use and that's like... The dragon mother to Denise Tonic. But instead, we've got pedos in the air we've got a pedo mother we do thatcher and then the artist is like they're coming from above from the skies in the sky um so britain declares a and this is very important because one of the one of the chief criticisms people make about mummy right is a supposed thing they call a war crime right so let's just get let's just get the record i think it's a war fine personally i think it's war fine all is fair in love and war yeah uh britain britain declares a 200 nautical mile maritime exclusion zone around the falklands yeah which initially applies to argentine warships but then it expanded to literally anyone so we're basically saying is this is the active war zone any ship this is the pitch this is the pit exactly it's when you're playing um five aside yeah you're putting jumpers down and you go right past that tree you're out that's the exclusion zone if you were any any ship was inside that zone britain would attack you and that was always fair now then are this this pumps me i got really into this operation black buck right uh they these are long the longest of long range this is sick yeah this is sick yeah it's great the main advantages argentina have is their bombers and fighters could not only come from the argentinian mainland but also from the island they've got all the air bases on the island so uh basically because they don't want to risk the aircraft carriers etc they can't they can't fly these heavy bombers from an aircraft carrier because they're too big the only place they can do is a landing strip and the nearest one is essential island which is fucking miles away so and like if you're if you're if you're listening just it might be helpful to switch the video because essential island is in the middle of fucking nowhere yeah but it's closer to somewhere than the forklance right so this is basically it's the midpoint between britain and the southern extremity of Britain.

30:19And so what they do is they set up a forward base on Ascension Island, and they then carry out RAF bombing missions to the Falklands from Ascension Island. But in order to do this, they have to create an air bridge, which is they have several refueling tankers that are also flying, and they take off at exactly the right time. And then they refuel the bombers in midair 17 times over the course of them going there and back. It's like, and the contraption is sort of like, it's like a she-wee sort of thing. It does look a bit like a she-wee, yeah. It's kind of like, it's got like a coat, like a cone and a magnet, I assume.

30:59Yeah. I mean, a single pilot has to stay awake for that long. I don't know how long that takes them. Yeah. 8 ,000 mile round trip. Do they not have a co-pilot? Maybe, I guess so. That's probably it. It was the longest bombing mission in history at the time. the Vulcan required a complex air bridge of Victor tankers they refueled the other tankers refueled other tankers which then refueled the Vulcan right up to 11 aircraft are involved to get one bomber from Ascension wow to Port Stanley right and if one aircraft has an issue then the whole chain collapses and the mission right so Black Buck one this is just to get a proper bomber basically to destroy the land because you couldn't do that from aircraft no because the the and also but also So the aircraft carriers are nowhere near the task force set sail in April.

31:42It's going to take them, what, five weeks to get there? I don't know how long it takes them. It takes them fucking ages to get to anywhere near the Falklands. Anyway, Black Buck 1, 1st of May in 82. This is the one everyone cites. A single Vulcan attacks the Stanley Airfield with 21 ,000-pound bombs. The bomb run is made at night in poor weather from a very high altitude. Of the 21 bombs, only one hits the runway, and it doesn't crater the middle of it. So they're able to, it doesn't actually shut down the airstrip for very long and they're able to repair it. But it basically, they were trying to kill the Stanley Airfield so that the Argentines could - Could stop sending fighters.

32:21Because if they have air superiority over the task force, then the task force is fucked. So the task force is a fleet of ships that are spending five weeks getting to South Atlantic. Now, they get there at the start of May, 82. Yeah. And we arrive at one of the most controversial. This is when the big controversy of the war. This is where the sort of fun, pretend stupid war becomes quite real for some people. Yeah. This is the sinking of the Argentine destroyer, the General Belgrano. Yeah. Now, on the 2nd of May, 82, British nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror torpedoes it, which is the only nuclear-powered submarine ever to sink a warship in combat.

33:04it was a former US Navy ship the Belgrano which had survived Pearl Harbor I guess there's not really much naval warfare ever going on no this is the first I mean this is the only real naval battle post-war two post-war two boat on boat action this is it boat on boat B2B very very sad boat on boat ripping communities apart now what what happens is that the Argentine uh fleet there's a destroyer that is heading towards the exclusion zone yeah the belgrano right uh and the task force are nearing the falkland islands yeah it's sort of circling the exclusion so they what they think is happening is that the rest of the argentine fleet and the belgrano are going to get the task force in a pincer movement yeah uh and and then attack yeah and so this is what thatcher hears in london this is what the general says this is what we think they're going to do and so uh the the head of the army or navy or whatever says to thatcher do we have permission to sink it fuck yeah yeah before he even finishes fuck yeah fuck yeah those are our boys sink it uh so she goes sink it uh she says yes but because of the lag in terms of the um the timing and distances uh when they actually engage the belgrano it is now sailing away from the exclusion zone yes uh which makes it look bad yeah but it's just because outside the exclusion zone doesn't mean yeah that britain can't still fuck you up sure it's just that if yeah that wasn't the rules no the rules wasn't like just all of the war happens there no that's just like if you're in there there's war yeah but also doesn't mean we can't go we're at war with you if you're anywhere we're going after you you invaded yeah our most important part the most important part of the soul of the nation the falkland islands the jewel in the crown so the submarines uh fire torpedoes at the belgrano causing an absolute firestorm on the ship i think of a thousand people on board 323 die which is quite a lot which is half of argentina's total war dead from the four right yeah so it's no longer just a laugh anymore no this is having quite it happens quite early on but what it does result in is that they no longer use boats at all in the war.

35:19Charlie, just want to just read out what you've Googled there. At least three whales were harmed by the British warship HMS Brilliant or not very brilliant actually during the 1982 Falklands War after the ship's radar missed it them for enemy submarines leading to torpedo and helicopter attacks on the marine mammals. Fair enough. I mean, normally your search has never come up with anything but actually... Can you imagine being in a helicopter gunship just firing bullets down the whale? But what's it all for? Hey? What am I doing? Yeah, this fucking whale has no idea. That's a British whale. Yeah, but that would be sad though.

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40:11To be honest, so much so the sun even apologised, which they never do. They never apologise. So it was quite, basically they just completely misjudged the vibe. Yeah. They thought it would fire people up, but it was a little bit like... Everyone's like, 300 people died. Over a pointless rock. It's quite funny that in the rest of the history series about this they talk about how uh by 1982 a human life meant so much more than it did in the 40s of course yeah because uh that's why it feels icky in a way that none of this stuff would have felt icky 40 years previously of course yeah it's just because it's there's so many people dying it doesn't really mean anything but they also the sun ran an anti-argentine joke column uh encouraging readers to send in anti-argentine gags yeah and if your joke was printed they send you a tin of corned beef well they also invited readers to sponsor a missile with a personalized message to galtieri's gauchos with love from the sun wait so like when you adopt an orangutan sort of adopt a missile it should also be said that the sun airlifted two royal navy ships um page threes which is nice isn't it yeah so the inside of those ships are just like a mechanics wet dream just tits everywhere but i guess yeah is that is that the kind of the the 80s coming to fall something even though we're trying to cosplay the 40s the culture of the 80s is kind of coming through yes tabloids big tits yeah you know it's the end of deference yes exactly the growlers have gone yeah this is there's no i think we're into brazilian age yes i think we're into the shape yes i think so i believe now thatcher she gets a lot of stick during the 1983 election campaign about the belgrano yeah because she refuses to uh put an inquiry on and this is what she says about it but i do not spend my days prowling around the pigeonholes of the minister of defense looking at the precise course of action one moment you only respect people who come one moment yes that ship was a danger to our boys that's why that ship was sunk i know it was right to sink her well that ship was a danger to our you see the emotion in her eyes yeah danger to our boys but also just the way imagine starmer saying one moment yeah they don't do that anymore i mean corbin does the thing where he throws the fucking hello i'm talking actually excuse me hello corbin is awful for it it's so um i'm talking um i'm not talking i've not i've not finished yet i've not finished yet i've not talking because you don't want to be like like i don't know like self-pitying did i thought am i just enough hell yes i'm just enough remember that one yeah that was what that's that's what really sounds like yeah yeah it is am i tossing us oh yes i'm just that's the belgrano of his campaign am i toss enough oh yes i'm tough and you can see the campaign leave his eyes as he says it am i tough enough tough enough i'm i'm tough enough but what she said is one moment yeah just shutting them out one moment that's david frost as well one moment who's eating up nixon by this point yeah one moment one moment so then you see her eyes yeah that ship was a danger to our boys she killed it also apparently what was great about thatcher is because she has no like masculine ego about war she knows she knows nothing about war yeah even though she gets involved in things she doesn't know about all the time she had none of that about war so she would respect her generals and let them do their job yeah where i feel like the army loved her yeah i feel like a bloke if you're in there yeah and it's wartime you're part of you gonna be thinking well i'm what are you doing what are you doing there yeah because you know i mean i think there's still a masking thing it's like well obviously if it came to we should do the whales we should do the whales in i reckon we move yeah should we uh what should we bother about those whales should Should we miss all that?

44:08Let's bomb the whales. Firstly, clear the whales out. The general's like, what? Now, bomb them. Did I stop them? Yeah. Bomb the whales first. Those whales were a danger to our barn.

44:22Sinking with a beluga. Her voice on Truss's face. I'm done. You're done what? Fold me in half. I'm cooked. You're done not coming. Because Truss's voice is awful. Yeah. 30 % of our trees. Do you think Truss is sort of like David Beckham then? What do you mean? Hello. Very attractive until she opens her mouth. Yeah, exactly. David Beckham, gorgeous. Hello, I'm the sexiest man in the world. The thing about Victoria is she doesn't like the... Yeah, Victoria. Yeah, Victoria. No, yeah, exactly. But Thatcher's voice, my God. She had to look like that because if she'd looked any fitter, you know, men wouldn't get anything done.