You've Never Had Your Prostate So Enlarged : Harold MacMillan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979

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1:47Welcome back to Fin vs. History. I'm here with Horatio Gould. You've never had it so good. Today we're talking Harold Macmillan. Yes. We are into part five of our marathon through the post-war British Prime Ministers. Girls, wear extra pants today. It's an hour on Harold Macmillan. Double up. Double up, ladies. You're going to need a protective layer of pants underneath your normal pants. The boys are talking about Harold Macmillan. 1957 to 1963 domestic policies. My God. I can hear the frothing twats from here. It's like the Niagara Falls. Oh, ladies, if you would, just please double up on your pants.

2:32We're about to make wry, witty observations about Harold McMillan's domestic policies. He's one of my favourite prime ministers, I think. Oh, yeah. I do. Actually, there's a lot here. No, I do. There's a lot here. It's actually good. And our audience will be fucking grateful for the feed, actually. More? More? You want more? Less? Slinging bread. Less? You want less? Less? You don't want less. You want more. It's McMillan. McMummy Lynn I think You've never had it so good as his most famous quote You've never had it And that's how I feel to the fucking audience You've never had it so soggy You've never had it so bad I genuinely feel like this is the first premiership we've got to where today's audience would recognise how it felt I think To what?

3:13To like modern premierships Yes I think it's a recognisably modern premiership Sex scandals Sex scandals Cuckoldry Cuckoldry You know deference is gone yeah people are thinking oh you're all the fucking same yeah yeah how people feel about harold mcmillan is i imagine how people feel similar to the beginning of the line of getting to the point where they're all the fucking not another one another one yeah brenda from bristol is saying that about how but it's just what she's saying that about is what he's been cuckolded again not another one he's watching another one fuck his wife i think looking up i didn't know much about mcmillan but he's actually quite interesting it's fascinating i also think it's the real hinge point in like the the kind of old world new work new britain this is the real hinge because it was almost like it wasn't he would have been a better prime minister if he'd maybe gone to power 10 years earlier maybe or in a different period the main thing that happened was the times left him and he couldn't adapt yeah and his wife left him and his wife left him quite a lot left and he did adapt to be fair to that he adapted very well yeah i mean that's very well she was having an affair with one of his ministers for 30 years 30 and and supposedly fathered his his um his youngest daughter but he just cracked on yeah it's the definition of stiff upper lip yeah he really is he's the last gentleman to be in in uh he's the most gentleman we've ever he's the he's the classiest guy we've ever had as prime minister yeah in that he was a 30 year test cricket cup yeah 30 years but also 30 years the idea of the gentleman has become cartoonish and he plays up to that yes he actually isn't a lot of it is artifice he knows that he's playing up to it he's not a true like i feel with eden yeah there was a seriousness and a sincerity to his well you think mermillian's playing up definitely do you think yeah definitely that was a huge part of it was this kind of like throwback to an earlier time he's like you know he's got an english mom and american dad but he claims a scottish ancestry yes like he a lot of it is just all artifice he really plays up this kind of kind of cartoonish version of a gentleman for sure is that you see throughout his career as well that he is very like calculated he's unflappable he's um yeah well as cucks are yeah they're not easily flustered no by dicks raining down on their spouse they do yeah they have not touched flaps in years yeah they're unflapped yeah exactly in all senses of the word they're fully flap dodgers they're flap watchers yeah um and yet it's so ironic isn't it that for a a prime minister who is literally not getting any to be undone by a sex scandal.

5:46I mean, it's as juicy as it gets from my point of view. The cuck's burden. The cuck's burden. No sex, but sex ruins your life. Yeah, that's Kipling's famous novel, The Cuck's Burden. So let's place this for the thickos. We're in 1957 when Rilland comes to power. So 1957, that is... So that would be, I guess that would be after the invention of the washing machine? Yes, can we just confirm that, Charlie? But I do believe washing machines are around, and I think people are using them. 1851. What about the modern one? 1937 was the automatic washing machine. And it's before the invention of the rabbit sex toy?

6:30Yes, again, something that Millen would never have laid eyes on. Let's have a look. The idea of the rabbit originally, early 1980s. Can we get a picture of the rabbit vibrator? Lovely. Now, that does make me feel fairly redundant anatomically, because they've got it seems to have two dicks yeah which if that's what women want then what is the point of a man well do you need another fella in there i guess so two fellas in there well that's what harold mcmillan realized but the japanese they're you know they're all innovators in the 80s they're really trying a lot of stuff so i guess it really no englishman would have thought of this what the that the top bit yeah that that's not that the english mind can comprehend something like that it still can't i don't think i think the english the english gentleman's mind are still astounded by the rabbit toy right but again to get it back on topic mcmillan straddles the two eras yes of no but stuff but stuff right 57 63 yeah we're getting into the butty decade he straddles it but it's not like he's got a foot in each column no he's very much from the old world he's got a foot in neither column yeah he's wandered into a sex party in a three-piece suit.

7:36With a monocle going, my God, have some respect, which is what I feel like. So I feel a lot of, I relate to Macmillan. I relate to Macmillan a lot. So in turn, Macmillan is known for this famous saying, you've never had it so good. Yeah. Because he governed during a period of economic prosperity. But of course, there were cracks underneath it all because we just had Suez. But by economic prosperity, everyone's got a telly. Yeah. And so people are happy. Yeah. Because this country is thick as shit. Yeah. And if you put a telly in front of them, it doesn't matter what's going on. Yeah. You know, it's fine.

8:06Right. Well, just being alive for kind of ever had been absolutely awful. Yeah, that's true. And now it was kind of like just a bit shit. Yeah. So it is like the 50s is extraordinary change from basically if you're poor, life has been absolutely awful forever. It's always been fucking terrible. And now you've got a telly where you can watch people do stuff and it's all right for a bit. Yeah. So and what are they doing on the telly? they have got Eurovision begins in 1956. Who wins the first Eurovision? Switzerland. Right. Okay, because it's interesting. Obviously, the thing is that we always lose Eurovision.

8:43Yeah. Get up the leaderboards of the most wins in Eurovision. Ireland and Sweden. Seven victories. Follow closely. France five. We're tied third place with Luxembourg. Fuck off. Israel four. Yeah, they like winning. Fucking hell. When was Israel admitted? Oh, I don't want to go down that road. For me, that's the most controversial thing they've done is join Eurovision. How they've got into Eurovision. I guess they're the chosen people. I mean, the West Bank's one thing, but Eurovision, they're not anywhere near Europe. Yeah, but it's said in the Old Testament. Oh, they had to join Eurovision. Yeah, the settlers.

9:20They were part of Eurovision 5 ,000 years ago. Of course they were. Yeah, of course. The first Eurovision. So Blue Peter starts in 58. here we go did you watch Blue Peter growing up obviously I watched Blue Peter growing up Katie Hill Connie Huck woof that's in the slot I think actually this is fat Taylor this is fat Horny Taylor dreaming of Katie Hill Katie Hill and Connie Huck this is stud pig this is stud pig stud pig Taylor watch out Katie Hill there's a violent stud pig just rutting waiting to charge at you you broke a lot of tellies with the amount of humping you were doing yeah I was rutting rutting the TV katie hill who did a uh she did a toothpaste advert after she left blue peter in a in a very low cut top that's what i remember this is early this is kind of pre-teen sexual awakening stud stuff the stud pig away the innocence of the sexual awakenings of your youth yeah toothpaste advert yeah now if you're eight years old it's like oh yeah my sexual awakening is when i typed in gang bang to porn hub that was when i kind of awakened my sexual thing is when i typed in loads of sex right now please i was thinking because like i was thinking that actually nowadays you can't like when i when we were kids you could get rid of porn and you could you could you had some deniability about it because it would just be like a still photo of a naked woman we could throw it in the bin no but as in you could just minimize the window but now kids are caught and they've got a fucking vr headset and like an automatic fleshlight and they're hogtied they're like you could be like i'm on amazon yeah like what are you doing i'm watching the i'm watching the highlights of the football i'm watching match the day now match today does start here by the way i think match today starts match the day's wilson i think maybe it's wilson 64 yeah so match today's wilson excuse me um that was the week there was yeah that's the satire show right but the first carry-on film is released in 1958 i don't really know anything about the carry-on films they're a bit of fun they're referenced all the time it's kind of my it's what my dad is it the same as a Ealing comedy no no no very different carry on films is like a very it's it's sort of Benny Hill-esque it's like the height of camp comedy farce it's farce but it's it's lewd it basically in every film Barbara Windsor gets chased and as she's gets chased a bit of clothing comes off and they get snagged on like a twig sexy farces it's the ultimate like end of the pier sex farce it's all gay jokes do they do they hold up being gay is illegal and yet everyone's going to laugh at how gay Kenneth Williams is.

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14:27Shop Halloween decor now at Wayfair.com. Wayfair, every style, every home. The Indian and Chinese immigration has meant a lot of restaurants beginning to introduce. So, Butlins is around. Butlins has introduced chop suey and chips to holiday camps. I mean, I was at a snooker club last night and for£2.50 they served curry noodle, which feels like that is post-war British immigration, isn't it? A snooker, a very English snooker. Yeah, you're either curry or you're noodle, ain't you? Which one are you? Where are you from? It's just like so vague. It's just curry and noodle, same thing. Curry noodle.

15:03I either have chips or I have curry noodle. The fittest woman, and now this is, I would argue this is where fit women begin. Yeah, I mean, 60s, come on. Ursula Andrus. Yeah. The first Bond girl. Smoke shows to end all smoke shows. Look at, in the bikini, out on the beach. This is where the first Bond film comes out. 62, Doctor No. Now We're Cooking. Connery's around. Yes. You know, this feels like Britain to me. Yeah. It's starting to make sense a bit. Curry noodle. Yeah. Ursula Andrus. Yes, please. Yeah. You know. Slang for boobs in this era. Norks. Norks look at Ursula's Norks Norks is a very funny can we get the etymology of Norks please yeah where is it is it a Saxon word Norman Nork the slang term it's Australian in origin etymology is unknown but one theory suggests it comes from Norco Corruptive Ltd a butter manufacturer whose packaging feature the cow's udder right right so it's a brand of butter so Norks comes from butter so look at those buttery Norks I guess So we've gone from, was it under Eden, it was chandeliers.

16:11And now it's norks. You can see the degradation starting to happen. You can see the end of deference, can't you? When a woman's boobs were shiny. Oh, I can barely look at those wonderful chandeliers. Now show us your norks, love. We used to be gazing up at chandeliers and now we're looking down at norks. Buttery old norks. Spread those norks on toast. My God. This is also the beginning. This is the beginning of sniggering. It is, of smirking. I don't think sniggering existed before this. This is like the beginning that, you know, people realised they could snigger at things. Yes. You didn't used to snigger.

16:45Yeah. And now Private Eye, the kind of - Have I got news for you? One of the tent poles of sniggering. Yes, exactly. The satire boom is now - New sounds are filling London. Exactly. Is it a dolphin in a bathtub? The Daily Mail. You've just never even heard these. Yeah, the sound of the 60s is Paul Merton going - Now, Macmillan becomes PM in 1957. Eden has just stepped down because he's completely fucked. He's fucked it. His bottoms fall off. And he's off to have sex with Ian Fleming's wife in Jamaica. When Macmillan becomes Prime Minister, he tells the Queen, oh, I might not last six weeks following Suez.

17:26She reminds him of this six years later. It was a funny, wry joke because that's what this is all about. The comedy of the time is very wry. Right. It's cuck's humour. Yeah. Macmillan had a sizable majority and so he wasn't going to call an election unless he felt he had to so before we get into his premiership who was Harold the store let's go back and and talk about this cuck yeah from a cuck from birth yeah um so went to Eton expelled for being a homo um which you have to be really gay to get expelled from Eton yeah because there's a whole there's a whole like culture of like fagging and stuff fagging yeah yeah so explain what fagging is I think we'll probably explain that with the next prime minister because that's literally all he is.

18:07A fag. Yeah. Right. But he gets expelled from homosexuality. He goes to Oxford but doesn't graduate because of World War I. He marries Lady Dorothy Cavendish in 1920. They were a mismatch and by that they mean that he was gay. It reminds me of that. It didn't quite match up. So he was one was gay and one was straight. My favourite all-time Norm Macdonald joke is Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson have split up. Friends say it was never going to work out because she's more of a stay-at-home type and he's more of a homosexual pedophile. They were mismatched, but they still had four children together.

18:41Supposedly the last one is not his, but the conservative politician Robert Boothby. From this point in 29, they lived separate lives because divorce would affect his political career. And he's so humiliated, but apparently he has a nervous breakdown in 1931. But then he gathers his thoughts, yeah he gets some composure yeah he resolves that he will be this country's first ever cuck prime minister innovator he's like obama in a way yeah hope hope just cuck mcmillan cuck for change yeah so by the 1960s right to fast forward because the affair is pretty juicy boothby who is a not boothby again i mean boothby sounds like a guy who's fucking your wife doesn't he yeah booth booth richard boothby no rob robert boothby so he's this dashing young tory mp and he becomes this sort of flamboyant figure in the london nightlife scene in the 60s yeah and he has a taste for young women and young boys boothby boothby boothby goes both ways it's the 60s but he's in both booths he's booth by he's he's booth by he's drilling a hole in the booth and shoving his dick through it he doesn't matter what's stuck in the end of it doesn't give a fuck Doesn't give a fuck.

19:54As long as there's something at the end of it. He's not fussy. He's not fussy. He's not a fussy eater. No, no, no. Gobble, gobble, gobble. Whatever's put in front of him, he'll gobble. He'll finish his plate. He's grateful. Waste not, want not. It's that wartime spirit. Yeah, exactly. That generation, they just, you know, they turn the lights off, they gobble whatever they're putting in their mouth. We just got on with it, you know. Whatever. Cock or fanny, whatever's on my plate. We're all bisexual. You'd understand if you grew up in the war, you were grateful. full um anyway he likes a drink and uh he starts going out to all these nightclubs right and it brings him into the orbit of the cray twins right uh who because they've started running right nightclubs and also i think it's reggie cray is uh openly homosexual brackets in the right rooms but he's a terrifying homosexual yeah where it makes him harder he's like the most violent man in East London and he's kind of an open homosexual but he's also the fucking hardest geezer.

20:51Yeah, he's the hardest geezer but he's gay. He really is. It kind of makes him, it shows, it basically shows I'm so fucking hard that I can be openly homosexual and get away. I don't fucking take it. I'm not a pofter. But I think they, isn't that the thing about them banging each other? Ronnie was, yeah, you found an article. Yeah, yeah. Gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie Cray had secret gay sex with each other. Yeah, that's kind of like a big thing thrown against them which is a bit odd. Do you think they get awkward after they come? what are they doing they're just so fucking hard I think they punch each other in the face and they go fuck off fuck off I'm not gay fuck off you're gay they both called each other homophobic slurs while they're fucking each other do you reckon they wrestled to see who would be on top I mean yeah I've said this on my other podcast and that's the big appeal of gay sex for me the wrestling bit yeah you like to wrestle part of me is like isn't it interesting being physically as strong as the person you're having sex with who's going to end up on top we don't know oh yeah I guess it is more exciting yeah that to me and it was illegal god it's so exciting yeah it's a bit you can really rough house and it's fine because you're both fucking big fucking burly blokes in the eyes of the law yeah you're the same yeah but you were saying the thing that put you off is the idea of like looking out into the kind of corner of the room yeah no no I don't want to get bummed because I don't want to I don't like the idea of just staring at a wallpaper or something never forgetting that lamp yeah Well you could be looking up looking up at the stars Yeah do you know I bet I'm not adding romance to my Some of us are looking up at the stars Well I'm looking at the fucking gutter Anyway in 64 right Boothby strikes this arrangement up with Ronnie Cray that involves he'd socialised at the Cray clubs in the West End Yeah He would meet young boys supplied by the Cray network and then money would change hands Do you have a young boy supplier?

22:38Sorry? Do you have a young boy supplier? Yes but I'm not going to I'm not going to throw my dealer out into the open. Not Deliver Boy. Yeah, Deliver Boy. It's just a little piggyback. Anyway, so the Sunday Mirror gets hold of this story and is going to publish a piece about a, quote, prominent peer associating with the Craze and Rent Boys. But, and McMillan at this point is out of office and he's still alive. Yeah. But the whole thing threatens to blow up because it would sort of publicly open up the open secret of the McMillan. a cuck and has had his daughters fathered by is that confirmed in in political circles yeah it's understood but so his daughter isn't his one of his daughters isn't is supposedly boothby's and his daughter thinks her dad's boothby's christ um so boothby hires a liable lawyer blah blah blah and the entire establishment labor and conservative closes ranks yeah and stops the story coming out because it would expose like how gay the whole thing the whole thing's gay yeah the whole thing And homosexuality in 66 is still illegal, I think.

23:42Anyway, let's get to his war record. Now, he volunteered at the start of World War I. He severely wounded in the Somme, so much so that he spent 12 hours in a shell hole playing dead to avoid the Germans. And I don't understand this bit. While he's playing dead, he reads Aeschylus in the original Greek to pass the time. But is that like, is he like this? Well, he must be like, oh, I'm quite bored. I mean. I guess it's pre-TikTok. when you know the stimulation you could read a book in greek and that'd be enough dopamine but it's funny because now if you're playing dead you'd be like it's funny yeah but it's funny that a german would walk past and think oh that's annoying that guy got killed just as he was reading aeschylus it's weird anyway he's left with a limp uh from this hip injury and a weak grip on his right hand from a gunshot wound which means his wife i think as well yeah it means his hand rising shit and he's got a weak handshake so he's just kind of like how much of the cucks is nature nurture the war you know yeah because it felt like a lot of these british politicians the war didn't make them more macho no it slapped a lot of the masculinity out of them well it made it made churchill more hard drinking yeah and give a shit yeah but everyone else yeah anyway uh after the war well he's very proud of his military service even though he spent it all hiding in a hole.

25:03Reading Greek. And reading Greek. And he expresses disdain for politicians like Harold Wilson who had not seen combat because Wilson will get to but Wilson basically is a civil servant during the war. He then becomes a partner at Macmillan Publishers. Which is his family publishers. I don't think he's involved in the council one. Oh no, I don't think so. No. Maybe. It's not Macmillan cuck care. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah. He's a housing minister under Churchill which is Churchill's great domestic success is the housing. Yeah. So he's a very skilled minister. Which Churchill would never have any idea about.

25:31He doesn't know. he has no idea how's it what foreign secretary under Eden which we should talk about because he is the one who's persuading Eden that if he doesn't withdraw from Suez like we've already lost 100 million pounds worth of sterling reserves yeah when in fact the figure was actually 30 and so but he's trying to persuade Eden to pull out straight away but Macmillan was wrong on both fronts because he persuaded Eden to go yeah he's such a snake and he told Eden to leave when it was too early to leave on both counts exactly but he's argue could have been seen to be playing for the position and then he does right so sacrificing him yeah well that's what i mean i think mcmillan is a really machiavellian figure and it's all a lot of like he has a real drive for power that seems to come across and he fucks people over a lot so basically when uh butler who there's even a book written on butler saying the best prime minister we never had right you know and he was the most qualified and expects us to take the role, right?

26:30And the way that the Tories choose their leaders, they're the 1922 committee, right? Yeah. As opposed to having a party vote, right? Yeah. They have a group of people deciding. And all the press are saying, Butler's going to be the next PM. Butler is talking with his wife about what suit he's going to wear when he announces it. He goes to the 1922 committee, and I think he brings Macmillan with him, and it's the big mistake. And he just does like quite a dry speech, saying I'll do this, this, and this. And Macmillan says, oh well actually i've got some ideas and there's this huge flowery speech hitting all the right notes like gives it everything a shakespearean performance basically and then a couple of days pass and they they choose mcmillan yeah butler screams treachery and uh he gets fucked but then in retrospect i think mcmillan thinks butler would have been a better pm or something well he's a cuck isn't he yeah i didn't do a good job someone else do it yeah so arguably he came into the easiest you know at the can is a hard position uh there's lots of people uh wilson's second time hard position but maybe this is the easiest premiership to come into well i guess what's well suez has just happened yeah so he has to repair the rift between britain and america which he does and then gets called super mac yeah maybe so he meets frequently with eisenhower following the suez thing eisenhower offers to supply britain with a ballistic missile equipped with nuclear warheads yeah and blah blah blah he eventually settles the matter his whole his whole thing early on is that he's like we got to get into europe because france germany and maybe the low countries are talking about a proto-eu yeah so eec or something that's it and um so he's always trying to get in because he's basically he's thinking that the commonwealth such this is when the commonwealth starts to go a bit shit or rather well there's an idea that the commonwealth could be like a sort of adapted British empire, but didn't really work.

28:20But then apartheid kicks off and he's like, well, I don't think this is us actually. This is a different thing. Or a bit rich for my blood. This is a bit rich actually. Yeah. I'd like to just sit there and watch it though. I wouldn't mind just watching a bit of apartheid. I'd like to sit and watch apartheid. Yeah. Because he's actually, he's a very liberal Tory. Well, they all are at this point. Yeah. They're all kind of one nation. Until Thatcher. Yeah. He very nearly joined Labour. Macmillan. Yeah. Oh, really? So he was on the cast. Well, this is the closest they've actually ever been. Been as parties.

28:47And that's partly what cancelled Labour out during this period. Yeah. It's just like there's nothing to really split them up. So let's get to the 59 election. The Labour Party's split between Gateskill and Bevan. The campaign slogan, life's better with the Conservative. Don't let Labour ruin it. So very dull campaigns during this period. Yeah. No, we're better. Okay. This is where he says most people never had it so good. Right. And this is, it gets thrown back in his face later on when things get bad. but what he's actually saying which is the kind of seed that will take us through to the rest of the end of the series is please stop trade unions asking for more money please because you've actually this is really good and the more money you ask for well you're fucking us they're fucking us yeah but no one ever remembers the second bit anyway which we just quoted word for word which we just quoted word for word please don't take more money because you're fucking us and I don't I've got enough I cucked them for a horse exactly I've got enough things to watch being fucked I don't need the economy as well so his premiership it's mainly defined by the sort of rapid drawing up of the empire bridge because it's been like as we've seen it's been yeah a sort of slow trick picking up now and he's now like right literally an audit of an empire yeah so he commissions a report to assess how we go about decolonizing there's a bunch of insurrections it's all like let's get rid of the commonwealth to get rid of the empire and go into the eec that's the thing however so he puts it all in on the eec because europe is picking up now because europe we strayed away from europe after the war because europe was in complete ruins and tatters and the only person's player was america but now there's a bit more of a boom happening in europe and now it suddenly seems more uh appealing to join europe basically and he would later say that that was the big problem was that we never we didn't join at the start we could have formed it right so then it was never on Britain's terms it was for French and German capital but he puts all his eggs in the EEC basket and then de Gaulle in 62 or 63 vetoes Britain's entry because de Gaulle just fucking hates the Brits and then Macmillan goes home and cries and wanks of it probably wanks but yeah the idea just a prime minister crying what's de Gaulle got to fucking Charlie can you just google what the fuck de Gaulle's problem is yeah because I mean is it Dunkirk The great success of de Gaulle is in the post-war years is underplaying how fucked the French were in World War II.

31:12Right. Because they win the peace unbelievably well. They get a seat at the Security Council. Unbelievable that. Yeah. Unbelievable. They get fucking nuclear weapons. They get all of these things. They start dicing up Germany. It's like, what? You guys had your feet up on a shiz wall. Yeah. Throughout the whole war. You've just been dipping fucking... And that's what his thing is, just tricking everyone to forgetting about how they acted during the war. Oh, okay. so on the matter of he hates us partly because of Suez because Suez was a French and British initiative and we backed out we backed out we cucked it we were like no worried and he then and embarrassed French as well yeah so he feels there's too much American influence so that's one of the reasons why he vetoes Britain's application right Macmillan says he wants to end the burden of empire but for Britain to remain a great power he said he didn't want to oversee the British Empire's liquidation, but rather its transition into some new modern entity.

32:10And so in 1959, Ian McLeod is appointed as colonial secretary, and it's a fucking Oprah Winfrey fire sale. Right. Cyprus, Nigeria, gone. Sierra Leone, Tanganyika, which I think is Tanzania. Right. Jamaica, Trinidad, Uganda. Fucking hell. Kenya, Malawi, Malta, Wayayugi, Zambia. They all go. Gone. Gone in four years. and he does this winds of change speech, which is in, I think that's in South Africa. And he goes up there and he's basically like the winds of change are blowing through this continent. Right. And since the end of the war, we have seen the awakening of national consciousness in peoples who have for centuries lived in dependence upon some other power.

32:5015 years ago, this movement spread through Asia. Today, the same thing is happening in Africa. The wind of change is blowing through this continent and whether we like it or not, the growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact. meanwhile the South Africans are going well we're just going to fucking they're like white people who haven't had all the kind of I don't know emotional growth that Britain's had yes we've been we've been slapped about during the wars and traumatized and we've got a newfound empathy and these guys haven't fuck off they're like Britain in the 1780s yeah what do you mean you said okay grow up are you a fucking child are you a cuck are you a cuck cuck that's what they're shouting when he's doing the speech.

33:32Cuck! And they think, right, this is the end of empire. All the white settlers are like, right, you just fucked it. Yeah. We're not going to be run by a cuck in Britain. No. A cuck, we're going to, we're going to basically make an apartheid state. And Macmillan, for a cuck, he says, I hope you won't mind my saying, frankly, there are some aspects of your policy which make it impossible for us to do this without being false to our own deep convictions. Yeah, I mean, that's the most cucky thing to say. That's a very cuck way of saying he's anti-apartheid. Yeah. But he introduces as a South African goods boycott, 59.

34:00That's pretty good. So they leave for South Africa alone because of all the apartheid stuff. Oh, so the Cuban Missile Crisis happens. Yeah, so his relationship with Eisenhower is pretty good. Yeah. What's his relationship like with Kennedy? I think they're a bit of a mismatch. There you go. Look, Kennedy referred to Macmillan as Uncle Harold and saw him as a father figure. Because there are times when the American president and the British Prime Minister kind of align. Bush and Blair. Bush and Blair. They got on very well. Blair and Clinton. Thatcher and Reagan. They had this kind of like sexual chemistry.

34:26yeah i mean they're like a leading man and woman yeah they're like bond and bongo yeah i mean blair and clinton they're like they're like they're like fuck boys together yeah like if it was now they'd be wearing coz they'd be out exactly they're the fucking they love hanging out i did not have relations with that woman um what relations haven't gone that well uh well trump theresa may is the ultimate that handshake yeah god that that's actually one of the most disgusting things i've ever seen yeah that handshake obama and cameron playing ping pong i felt was a bit forced it was for the cameras that relationship yeah oh that's just this this is horrible this is the the way they hold hands oh christ yeah this is ah that feels like sexual assault yeah the way he's holding her hand it's disgusting but then also it's very funny for like jfk as we've discussed the horniest person ever the guy who has more affairs than anyone yeah and mcmillan is uncle cuck yeah he once witnessed a typist sent to jfk's bedroom on a visit to the pm's home bouncing up and down on kendy's knee while he sang irish sea shanties to her mcmillan's there just watching the bloody hell i guess mcmillan is quite a satisfying portrayal of an english person if you're american yeah it's like oh that's what i think you're all like but this is the ultimate like if suez was a marker of how far we've fallen for then like jfk the young like virile yeah fuck boy president to go up against the old English cut.

35:51But this defines the special relationship from now on, isn't it? We're Uncle Cuck. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we are. Yeah. Push your limits, train with precision, see the results. At Equinox, that's high performance loving. Iconic spaces that inspire. Personal training backed by real data. Unlimited group fitness classes from yoga and Pilates to strength and conditioning. Elevate your post-performance ritual with saunas, steam rooms, cold plunges, and more. Everything you need to lock in and unlock your potential at Equinox. Start today at equinox.com.

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