The National Union of Racist Burnt Toast | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 5/6)

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1:58welcome back to fin versus history i'm joined by horatio gould that was margaret thatcher's cum noise this is the what was it do you think to fucking cam shit shit sorry sorry Maggie sorry mummy say it to her face what's mummy's cum noise oh fuck I'm going to bust this is but I guess women don't bust do they no they don't bust oh I'm coming oh fuck ya if this is the first episode you've listened to this is pretty much the speed yeah well don't go in in the middle of any series you have to remember you have to build on a long history of context every episode is someone's first. Yeah. This is part five of our Thatcher and the Falklands series.

2:45It's the beginning of her second term. We've taken five parts, four parts to get to the second term. Is this 15 parts of the British Prime Minister's? Do the Falklands count or are they their own? I don't know. I don't know anymore. I don't know. But yeah, we're into it. We're deep into it. Thatcher's heard that she's won a second term and she goes, Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. this lady's for turning this lady's not for coming oh fuck this lady's not for busting on no one's busting on Thatcher Dennis isn't busting on Thatcher what's Dennis' cum noise? let's equalise fuck off he says fuck off oh bloody hell fuck off BBC poofs and trots you bloody fucking poof you fucking trotsky poof he's calling Thatcher a trotsky poof for making him come you trotsky poof how dare you he's getting pegged by that just saying you're a puff yeah he's shouting it he's powerful trots trots is such an underrated it's good it's good old school fucking trots um anyway we are in 1983 and as you will have heard if you've been listening to the series thatcher has been reborn yeah she's riding high the falklands war uh before that mommy was on her knees not in a fun way not in a fun way she was doing her best to clean up the mess that her 10 predecessors had left but it was not going well but the economy starts to turn around just before the falklands war just before the falklands war and then the falklands war she is like a rocket boosters for her support she comes out of it thinking she could do no wrong yeah the labor party at this time uh their manifesto has been called the longest suicide note in history what kind of policies do they have in there there's some very very radical ones uh it's for the second main scrapping nuclear weapons this is at the height of the cold war yeah abolishing the house of lords re-nationalize everything withdraw from the european economic community it's a lot pick one and make a big pitch for it but you can't do them all at once it's the same as corbyn's one free broadband well the free broadband wasn't a bad idea nhs for pets uh people slagged off the broadband was one of the everyone gets custard every day that was a strange one again why why it goes against like the health as well it would be more strain on the NHS.

4:53Liberate Nicaragra. Where even is that, Jeremy? Can we, should we do some things first? Yeah. Someone had a joke about Corbyn that you can imagine that his soap bar, he uses right down to, till it's a sliver. Do you know what I mean? My granddad used to use that. You just know. He had one bar of imperial leather. Yeah, and it will go until it is like, a credit card that he's swiping under his arm. Yeah, absolutely. So Thatcher's second term begins in, is it 1983? Yeah, it begins in 1983. And this is so much happens in a second term. I guess the, you know, all the images, the controversies. This is the strike.

5:30This is Prime Thatcher. This is Key Thatcher. This is Aggie. Yeah. Thatcher's growlers fighting back. Yeah. The main, as well, 1984, so much happens in 1984, but let's crack into it. We're in part five. We've heard her come noise. 1984 begins with the National Union of Minors strike. Yeah. so for context again we've done 10 parts on this but Britain had been basically had its balls and advice by the unions since Clement Attlee I mean did Heath basically lose his position because of the three day week and the lights are going off yeah and the miners are being led by by Scargill Scargill who took down Heath yeah and I think he went to try and do the same with Thatcher they're anarchists essentially they're sort of hardcore Marxists who want to just destroy the government Or they're union chiefs who their job is to look after the welfare of their members.

6:25And that's their one job. It's not their job to look after the welfare of the country. No. And that's kind of where the clash comes in. So coal is obviously being unproductive at this point. Coal isn't that good. Why? Do you know anything like that? I really don't know. Any big fuel heads in here? I don't really understand how we get petrol from the ground. So the whole British Empire was built on coal. Yeah. and now we don't need it. So for our thick listeners, coal is a black combustible sedimentary rock. It's old wood, right? Hey? Isn't it old wood? Oh God, that's charcoal. I don't fucking know.

6:59It's charcoal. You just suck it in there. Is charcoal old wood? No. Yeah. I think it is. Is it? It's like stupid squared. I was stupid and you were more stupid. What? I want firelighters. You just were stupid on my stupidity. That's old wood. It was like a bukkake of stupidity. Yeah. That's old wood. It's going to be so painful for some listeners. this so painful i and i look i'll be honest i don't fucking know i don't know either but you know enough to know that we're both wrong what's fire lighters i don't think fire lighters are relevant to thatcher's second term they're brilliant though she's trying to replace coal with fire lighters i think is what she's she thinks that fire lighters will be more productive than coal maybe so are we the first country to de-industrialize well we're one of yeah we're one of the first countries to industrialize so we're one of the first to de-industrialize right So the NUM, the National Union of Miners, are striking to prevent 20 coal mines from being closed because the government policy is we need to, this is a drain on the country's finances, we need to get rid of them.

7:58But this would lose 20 ,000 jobs. And the coal mines, you know, every pit is the center of someone's community. Yeah, it's not, even though it's a terrible job, it's not like terrible jobs now. Like if you're doing like a zero hours contract at Sainsbury's, that doesn't give you an identity. It should do. To me it does. To me it does. i judge you i think you're a fat woman called pat who's got nothing going on in their life but the a whole town was built around that and it felt like you you had you felt like you were being productive you had a purpose yeah you could provide your family you'd all go drink at the pub afterwards the one pub yeah you'd all go in there and you'd spend your you spend your wages in the pub and then your wife would get upset but and a big basically post thatcher it's kind of ripped out working class identity the great you can basically take which is i think such a huge con because even if you're if even if you're building an unequal society what was genius about the old way is that working class people could still enjoy not having much because that you had camaraderie camaraderie community you kind of pride in your identity yeah it felt much more i don't know sustainable in a way whereas now it's like i don't know what jobs What jobs are working class people doing now?

9:08Well, yeah, delivery. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I guess so. Which is great for us. Because I don't have to cook. I mean, it's not that bad then. Yeah, when you put it like that. Yeah. But as in the - There's not like lots of camaraderie with delivery drivers. No, it's so individual, isn't it? Then you don't see all their bags outside the pub. Yeah. All the bikes tied up. The great Gordian knot at the heart of Thatcher's policy is that the economics she espouses destroys the communities she stands for. The strangest contrast with her character is that she is socially very conservative. Yeah. But this sort of unleashes economic and social liberalism in a way.

9:44Because the whole point of her methodism is that like communities... She destroys tradition and she sees herself as a very traditional person. So Peter Hitchens hates Thatcher. Well, he's the most conservative man in Britain. Yes. He's conservative for acts that were done in 1830. Yes. We went wrong in the Victorian age. Yeah. No, he actually says that we shouldn't have legalized divorce. and he says that in the 60s so his main problem is howard wilson's first government and hitchens says that thatcher no no true conservative should like thatcher because she tore the heart out of the country's communities well she changed what being a conservative meant i think yeah i think the idea of a conservative actually is someone who's basically just very risk averse and traditional yeah but also could have like a code of ethics that's kind of built on principle paternalism yeah and stuff like that yeah that idea of conservatism mcmillan conservatism yeah basically any other between that and the war that's all gone i grew up thinking of conservatives as these sort of like can i fuck it or eat it sort of mad like money grabbing yeah which is quite different to the history of british conservatism i think yeah yeah but what's funny is that uh hitchens is like no i'm a conservative and she's ruined it and that's the same way that like you now have people going oh no i'm i didn't change the left change i'm i'm consider myself left wing i just think that um you know we should still endorse phrenology yeah people say people nowadays a lot of podcasters will say that they're still left wing and then say that the most insanely right wing thing yeah that they believe me and it's just the left changed yeah um but hitchens us that from the other side how does he do it from the other side he says i'm still right wing he'll say that

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13:04Real design professionals. Free samples. Zero pressure. Right now, get up to 45 % off with minimum purchase. Plus, get a free professional measure at Blinds.com. Rules and restrictions apply. Anyway, so the events, to put it succinctly, is a year-long walkout of around 75 % of the UK's 187 ,000 minors. Right. And thousands of police officers are drafted to police the picket lines. And such a clever little fox that she is. Yeah. And she is a fucking fox. Fucking hell. Fucking hell. I'm going to fucking count. This lady's not for coming. She had stockpiled. Fucking filthy bitch. she stockpiled i think it's either six months or a year's worth of um coal she'd learn from what how he's got fucked yeah yeah she had stockpiled so she basically she was prepared for the strikes she'd stockpiled six months worth of coal uh to keep britain's power stations running yeah so she could just run the clock down yeah choke them out she marinoed them she did marino them part of the bus part of the bus so the lesbians and the gays now you've done me there in the script phoebe the lesbians and the gays um they support the minors and they raise uh when you added the as lesbians and gays support the minors you said the lesbians and the gays isn't it funny how the definite article can make it sound some reason it just feels more the lesbians the lesbians yeah it's the lesbians fault yeah like when you rather than saying black saying the blacks yeah it sounds way worse the jews yeah yeah jews support the miners the jews run the money isn't it weird isn't it you just put the word the in and suddenly you sound like an absolute racist well it really it implies more eye contact when you're saying it the lesbians yeah you know this is it's less throwaway if you want to talk about the miners really need to talk about the lesbians and the gays you know they're the ones that are there of course they support the miners they love lesbians we love going down they love a stinky pit yeah it makes sense women set up soup kitchens and made food parcels and raise money.

15:02This is done in the film Pride. Yeah, woke nonsense. It's all woke nonsense. But this kind of, the agonist begins really on the 5th of March 1984 at Coulterwood Colliery in South Yorkshire where miners find out that the NCB want to speed up plans to close their pit. Now, there's a big debate about whether the government wanted to just close pits that were even still productive on an ideological basis, which papers were released recently showing they did. Yes, okay. Wait, so they're just doing it just to destroy any power the unions could have? The miners thought that they were closing pits like willy-nilly, and the government at the time was saying, no, we're only closing pits because they're unproductive, but it turns out that they were planning to also close any pit.

15:44Right, right, right. It's all about war. They wanted to fast forward. It's the opposite of Mao's Great Leap Forward. It's the great shutdown. Just quickly. Just do it quickly. Sink the Belgorano, right? Yeah, it's such a thing. Fuck it. Sink it. Sink the pits. so on the 12th of march the num declares a national strike having not held a vote in october of the 84 the high court declares the strike illegal because it didn't hold a vote which thatcher had said they had to now in nottinghamshire most of the 30 000 miners there carry on working uh which is why they get called uh scabs yeah cross the picket line so on the 18th of june 84 the back we get to the battle of augree and these are all images that we've sort or grown up with or have been used in documentary films.

16:27The images are pretty stark. The 80s, yeah, in the Britain, the kind of agginess. So 6 ,000 police officers with dogs and horses face off against an equal number of picketers. This is in South Yorkshire. It erupts into violence. 95 picketers are arrested and charged with violent disorder. 100 miners are injured. One miner was hit so hard the officer broke his truncheon. Well, it seems like the officer got... So there were victims on the officer side as well. He had to get a new truncheon. He was charged with vandalism, that minor, breaking the truncheon. In 1991, 39 convicted minors were compensated£425 ,000 for assault by the police, wrongful arrest and wrongful prosecution.

17:05So 11 ,000 people were arrested. Because they fucking... Thatcher's just arresting anyone. Just fucking bang them up. Here we go. They had a black lives matter. I don't think they were doing that. Well, they are blacked up. I mean, the miners were blacked up. I don't think they were blacked up, Charlie. I think that's quite a large accusation to make. they were going down a mine and it happened to they weren't doing blackface it wasn't the only safe place to do blackface was underground you know it is well it is yeah it is if you're trying to do blackface being a coal miner is like if you have to do blackface it is a perfect crime if you just can't live he's been down the mine yes now obviously in Holland they still do that to this day they love it over there Schwarzer Peter and all that.

17:53Yes, no, the miners were not... Well, we don't know, actually. We don't know. Some miners may have been attracted to the job because it gave them a free hit at blackface. We don't know that. These all love blackface. Look at them. Well, you've also got Morris dancers. They love it. They love blackface. For Morris dancing, there's a bit of black and up. Oh, bloody hell. But this is kind of the... Yeah, the images you get of the 80s is just... It's riot police just charging... Yeah. people in bootcut jeans and mullets yeah lots of megaphones it's not a good look is there like a king miner yeah yeah Scargill Scargill who we'll get to in a minute he's blacked up he's not blacked up what do you imagine huge big smile on your face imagining a guy with a fucking pink axe a crown a coal crown like totally blacked up you think he's blackface and he's got like a fruit basket he's like king of the dwarves fruit basket on his head and he basically speaks like hey man me name is Scargill and you think he's just fully blacked up you think that's what he is?

18:49And he eats coal. He eats coal. He eats coal. Right, right. And he's got loads of children, but they're all little coal boys. So you think Arthur Scargill's like the ultimate racist? Yeah, and he loves, but he's also a really good miner. So you framed the whole miner strike as a race thing. Well, it is if you look at it. Right. So you say like what actually was going on. Well, they were all blacked up. I don't think they were. Well, so it's black, three whites. Yeah. But it was just one, both white, one was blacked up. Yeah, the whole 80s were a race riot, basically. You're right. Anyway, so the strike ends basically a year later and they go back to work.

19:23But there's just constant battles, constant pickets. Police are just rugby tackling guys in double denim. Now, Arthur Scargill was president of the NUM. His wife, Anne, let's have a look at Anne Scargill. Let's see, Charlie, let's let the dog see the rabbit. Get Anne Scargill's face up, would you? So he led the minor strike in 74, which, as we said, brought down Heath. Clearly images, Charlie. Oh, I reckon she was quite pretty back in the way. Yeah, she is. Fair play. She looks like that lady who says, you horrid little cunt. Oh, Marcia Williams? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. So, Scargill claims there was a plan for more than 70 pit closures, which was proved true in 2014 when old cabinet papers released.

20:04And Scargill worked with Women Against Pit Closures. That's an anti-lesbian pressure group. Wapsie. Yeah, Women Against Pit Closures. She chained herself to the railings at the Department of Trade and Industry. Hello. Yeah, that's the woman you marry. Yeah, she's into some BDSM stuff. Now, Thatcher famously refuses to make any concessions. Because she, this is post-Forkland, Thatcher. She's pumped up. Anything she thinks is right. Yeah, fuck off. Yeah. Fuck off, here's some horses and dogs. And then how do the miners lose? They're just... They're just ground down. They run out of goodwill. Yeah.

20:44They run out of money. Yeah. Because they pay the unions so that then the unions can pay them to not work. Yeah. Right, that's how the whole thing works. Eventually they run out of money. They're paying to be paid. Yeah. So like here's 30 quid for you to pay 30 quid. So your union membership basically is a price so that if you can strike to get better pay, you can still be paid for not working. Sure. Anyway, Thatcher does not make any concessions. The miners lose, which paves the way for more industries to be privatized. But the support the miners had during Heath and Callaghan, that's faded now.

21:15Well, it's been 20 years. of Britain just dancing to the miners' tune. And I think it was - And they did, in retrospect, it did just seem like the unions asked for too much. They got nothing. I think you can blame, you blame Thatcher. Both sides, because Scargill was a Thatcher of the mines though. That's what I mean. You can blame Thatcher, you also blame Scargill. He was so extreme as well. Yeah. And also it was inevitable, because if you look at comparable European countries, de-industrialisation was inevitable. Yeah. But it could have been done as such a more, it could have faded out. it could have been done to keep the communities because what scargill could have pushed for is some kind of reinvestment in the jobs yeah people in retraining now it's like a big sports direct factory that's literally what it is yeah you've gone from mining in blackface yeah to um not being allowed a piss break making big mugs yeah it's true yeah um but also the whole attack you know all the all the towns small towns are completely ruined that's why you the high streets are now just fucking betting shops I mean you're going on tour on quite a few of them right?

22:15I am going to I'm going round all these places I'm seeing the towns that Thatcher and Scargill decimated Yes What is it? Do you think having a lunch as a minor like having a sandwichy lunch as a minor is like the most like righteous lunch I think so genuinely like out of your little box with your black hands I do agree with this I do think about this I think certain kinds of work doesn't matter how good the lunch is I think it just feels incredibly righteous. You mean the photo of the men in New York on the girder? Sort of, yeah. Any of those sort of, I just think certain lunches... Having like a little fruit shoot down the mine.

22:50I don't think it was a fruit shoot. That's a kid's lunch. Yeah, they don't think the fruits were allowed down the mine. No, the fruits were supporting. Right, sorry. The fruit shoots were supporting the miners. The blackface miners. It's intersectionality. This fucking... This fucking man said it was a bloody fruit shoot. Well, that was... Yeah. We should place this, though. I realise we haven't placed this, and they'll be livid, our thick listeners. Right. This is 1984, okay? So this is after the book 1984 was written. Yes, because that was written in 1948. And it's before The Hand of God, Maradona.

23:28Yes, 1986, right? 1986, which was a sort of, you know, a comment on the Falklands. It was. It was them trying to regain some dignity. It's also, I mean, Disgrace themselves. The absolute best goal in football history is... In the same match, right? Same match, yeah. It's crazy. Bloody hell. Look at this. Livid. Cheats. Yeah. I mean, is your dad a big football fan? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, speaking to any man of this age, they cannot believe it. Still like... Even at a family gathering, if a Maradona or Argentina comes up, my uncle would just be like, fucking cheats. Yeah. So the Miners had been striking with the slogan, close a pit, kill a community.

24:09It's only place that's safe to do black faces underground. They hadn't mentioned that. We've made that up. 32 pit closures are announced in 1992 as Britain moves towards using natural gas. And in 2015, the last deep coal mine in North Yorkshire, Kellingley, was closed. So the UK coal industry had a total workforce of around 221 ,084 and less than 7 ,000 in March 2005. And was the UK basically invented coal being used as a fuel source? Listen, I've talked... Is that not what the Industrial Revolution was? Given none of us know what coal is, I don't know how... Who invented using coal as a fuel source?

24:48History of coal. Let's do it now. Little side episode. History of coal. They used it in ancient China. Right. Right. And also, what is coal? And look, there's people who'd be furious as to this. It's a fair question. We're not claiming to be intelligent here. It's a good question. What the fuck is it? Can you eat it? I don't know. I don't know. It's pure carbon, right? It's a lump of carbon that you can release the energy inside of. Definitely, if you eat it, you get cancer. But is it like having the maddest burnt toast ever? I think I genuinely... In a way, yeah. I think you're right. Yeah. And I don't know.

25:21Is it just really burnt toast? I was famously very, very bad at science. The burntest toast ever. I think it's basically they're mining burnt toast from the ground. So you were bad at science? I was bad at science. So bad at science. Did you have any skill? No, no. I bust my chemistry done. To be honest, this is a terrible... On Science Stuff, this podcast has no one... There will never be Finn versus Science. No. Because I've lost that fight already. I'm never going to win Finn versus Science. Science has got me over a barrel. They've got no one here knows. Do you know anything about Science?

25:49No. Oh, fucking hell. I genuinely think that these people were blacked up racists mining burnt toast in underground. I think that's what they were doing. And for some reason, Thatcher stopping that has made the country worse. I think. I'm thinking of like coal-powered trains is what I'm thinking of. This is a three-way Mexican thick off. None of us know who's the stupidest. I don't know. Is it burnt toast? I think so. Coal is compressed plant matter. There you go. Yeah. So it's vegan. So your vegan's going to eat it. So I guess it's the life cycle of all organisms. They go into the ground and they get crushed into a carbonated, decomposed form over millions of years.

26:33I also think dinosaurs and they come out as burnt toast. Did you know this? Dinosaurs are petrol. What? Oh, yeah, they are. Dinosaurs are petrol. They go into the ground and then they eventually decompose into... They get squashed and then they become SO. They become like Guinness. Dinosaurs are petrol. I think dinosaurs are petrol. Dinosaur petrol. Fossil fuels. It's fossils are dinosaurs. It's ground Guinness. Split the D. Yeah. We've got to stop splitting the G. We've got to stop using Guinness and start using... I don't fucking know. We're all blind here. We're blind. We really are. And this will be so...

27:07Fucking mustard gas in the trench. We're all holding onto each other. Greta Thunberg is listening going... Is she? Is she listening? Let's get her on. Get her on. She'll know what's going on. She's a laugh. Right. So that's the... The minor strike is all going on, right, in 84. Now, on the 12th of October, 1984... A lot happened. 84 is a crazy year, right? Margaret Thatcher thanked mummy just about escapes with her life. So in September 1984, IRA bomb expert Patrick McGee, that's not a slur, that is his actual name. What's his fucking name? Patrick McGee or something? Diddly diddly Paddy McGee.

27:46McGee is a silly surname because it implies you're jumping on a trampoline dressed as a leprechaun. Anyway, come see me on tour in Dublin and Cork and Belfast. McGee! Paddy McGee. It's a funny, just, it has a lot of Mickey! Do you know what I mean? Look at his fucking he's a hot guy look at that What? Do you not think? Sort of Phoebe? Do you not think he's hot? Don't you? No you've got you've got a weird taste You've got a weird thing you do have weird taste you're like chewed up old Scottish women and IRA bombers I think he's a fake And you love whiskey I think it's all your taste in something sexual is how much it stinks of spent matches I think he's a good looking guy He's not He's not Do you not think?

28:26No Mickey! He looks like George Best is sort of Downs' cousin. George Wurst. He looks like George Wurst. And on the left wing, George Wurst. He's got Downs. Does he know the rules? But do you know, McGee is a silly surname. Would you not agree? It's like being called like Brian Yippee. Brian Yippee. The problem with being an IRA bomber called Paddy McGee is that it sounds like a slur Thatcher's made up for the IRA. But that's his actual name. Yeah. Right. so he checks into room 629 of the Grand Hotel in Brighton and sets a bomb to go off 24 days 6 hours and 24 minutes later it's like I didn't realise it was a month before so he's attached to like an egg timer right or something like that something like that so Thatcher is going for the Conservative Party conference in Brighton they all do this stuff by the sea I don't know why what name does he check he doesn't check in as Paddy McGee does he when he stays there he's like fucking checks in as like John English Mr.

29:24John English yeah Mr Coventry he checks in as the John Coventry checks in as the HMS Coventry so Thatcher in October a month later is I don't know is she rehearsing a conference speech in the toilet maybe she's just been in the toilet doing her powder well the thing is she stays up so late yeah working and that's part of the reason she's alive because she was probably looking through files at 3am was the bomb under her bed no it wasn't she got moved to a different room so it was like but it was meant to explode and damage all rooms around so it could have hit some of them the bomb explodes and it causes one of the hotel's chimney to chimneys to slice through the building like a guillotine yeah the chimney destroys Thatcher's bathroom suite which she had just exited two minutes fuck so if she'd had any less fibre that day yeah she's dead right but she's saved she's saved by her her Protestant diet her her Methodist diet no funny business yeah she was not having a honking great shit at the time and that's why she's alive god bless the bomb seriously injured 31 and kills five i mean if she i guess there's a whole book killing that which i actually got halfway through it was pretty good we talked about uh in the live on the patron with vittorio we did it we talked about that because he's obsessed with this thing because i guess for the ira how close they were yeah is their crowning achievement yeah and they were very close because if they did kill thatcher wow what historically what is that as a what's jfk isn't it it must be yeah it's such a big deal yeah so they they were a whisk away from i mean the whole world they were tougher we live in a very different country away from yeah if she'd been having any tougher shit then she'd be dead yeah but luckily she had a constitution of iron i don't think we have had an assassinated prime minister yeah um prescott got an egg on him yeah that's something that's about it unless there's someone earlier oh spencer percival was shot in the house of commons lobby in 1820 right okay fair enough so we've had one assassination but yeah but five people do die muriel mclean who is wife of the president of the scottish conservatives who's blown from her bed gene gene shatok was decapitated he was the wife of a party chairman christ and then the deputy chief whip dies and he just returned from walking his dogs and this is the one him and his wife die the chief whip and this is what Thatcher this is what kind of like crushes her in many ways she's like really good mates with right but it just it just hardens her resolve of course and there's a very funny story of this this the most British couple ever where one of the he's like an old he's like a 70 year old guy I think he's just a hotel guest yeah gets caught in the rubble yeah he's completely saved from the waist down and he's there for five hours and his wife's fine and his wife keeps checking on him.

32:16So you're right. He's like, yep. He keeps pretending that he's fine. Yeah. No, no, good. Never been better. Fine. Yeah. Literally cannot feel below his waist. No, no, all good. Yeah, fine. Don't worry about it. Yes, no, all good here. I've been moved to a bigger room. Absolutely fine. The view is great from here. This is lovely. Yeah. When the bomb went off, Margaret Thatcher says to Dennis, I think that was an assassination attempt. Don't you? Because she's clever. Smart. She's smart. Sherlock Holmes. 20 minutes later, they get into a car. Dennis said, the IRA, those bastards. Now, the investigators were unsure as to how long the bomb had been there.

32:49Six timers were then found that were set for 24 days. McGee is tracked to Glasgow and is identified by a missing fingertip on the little finger of his right hand, which is the sign of a bomb maker. Because you singe it so much? I guess, yeah, or you just don't... Or you've taken it off so you don't leave marks. Now, McGee is sentenced to eight life sentences for planting the bomb, but was released in 1999 as part of the Good Friday Agreement. What is that? The Good Friday Agreement. I'll probably get into it, but it is a masterpiece of diplomacy, we have to say. In a sentence. It's the peace agreement that stops the troubles.