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196: When in Romania, do as the Romanians do

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It's the latest great chapter of Life on Planet Porky the podcast as Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones deliberate, discuss and digest all the big stories.

Today they include: the local elections, keeping Scotland part of Britain, Margaret Thatcher, Craig David, the history of the moonwalk, keyless cars, the back story of the Daily Mail, David English, the days when newspapers gave away free CDs, Amanda Eliasch, the French fishing fiasco, donkey rides, compassion fatigue, big charities, Nadia Comaneci, Porky's trip to Romania, hunger strikes, Michael Jackson's mum, Audrey Hepburn, and the truth behind Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's the jewel in the crown of podcasts, it's Life on Planet Porky.  

Follow the show on Twitter: @PlanetPorky or Mike is: @MikeParry8 while you can find Lesley-Ann: @LAJwriter.

Or you can email us questions or comments to: [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you! 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest, and I hope you are listening to the latest and I hope the greatest chapter from life on planet Porky,

0:28.8

with myself, of course, the Porkmeister and Rock Chick-Riter Extraordinary, Ms. Leslie and Jones.

0:36.4

And Miss Jones, how are you feeling this morning? Your country, Wales, still part of the Union, but there's votes still to come in up in Scotland. Is there going to be an Indy Ref 2? I mean, I fear for the breakup of the Union eventually, but I hope it never happens. I'm a unionist through and through. And in fact, in this very week

0:55.1

in 1770, I think it was, or 1773, the act of union was passed and that brought us all together

1:01.6

as one country. I hope we stay that way. It's nail-biting stuff, isn't it, Mike? I mean,

1:07.1

look, united we stand, divided we fall. It's the old adage, isn't it? We are small. The empire and the

1:13.3

Commonwealth are vastly diminished. We've lost our alliance with Europe. We're not as big as we thought

1:18.5

we were. So, no, we have to stick together. We absolutely have to. Yeah, no, I totally agree.

1:23.6

I think we've got a bit of a raw deal around the world and historically about the British Empire.

1:28.9

I thought it did quite a lot of good in many places. You know, it established sort of legal

1:33.0

structures in lots of countries that didn't have them before we got there and all that.

1:37.2

And nobody ever looks at the other empires which sort of came up and crashed, like the Roman Empire,

1:42.2

which, you know, was horrendous, used slaves, fed Christians

1:45.8

to the lines, or even the French who ran some brutal regimes, you know, in places like

1:53.1

the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. So I think all in all, I mean, obviously there were aspects

1:58.8

of it, which were terrible. But, you know, you can't, I don't think you can blame today's people for what people 200 years ago did.

2:07.9

Well, I agree with that. But there are that sort of debts of, you know, look, we did enslave people in our way.

2:14.8

They may have got paid minimum wage and whatever else to create buildings and so on. We did plunder the resources of these countries and we brought

2:22.9

a lot of stuff back that we shouldn't. There is a hangover of responsibility. That always

2:30.4

remains. That's still there. So I just think we need to be citizens of the world,

2:35.4

don't we today? And we need to be mindful of each other. We're all supposed to be looking

2:39.9

after each other in the modern day, not going, oh, we've got enough vaccine for our country,

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