209: Consenting adulterers
Planet Porky
Planet Porky
3.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Today's hot topics include: political affairs, being intoxicated by power, Matt Hancock, when philandering becomes functional, Ghislaine Maxwell's upbringing, Britney's conservatorship, the success of ABBA Gold, Wimbledon, travelling around on the back of a scooter, British institutions, the history of The Wick, educating rich kids, the reporter who scooped the beginning of the war, having a pint on a bus and the woman who married three millionaires. It's the richest podcast in the Solar System, it's Life on Planet Porky.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest episode, the latest chapter, the latest |
| 0:27.0 | adventure from life on planet Porpy. And what a lot we've got to talk about in this latest |
| 0:35.3 | chapter, Miss Jones. I trust you are well. And it's all about shenanigans in government |
| 0:40.5 | wherever you look at the moment, is it not? Well, it's all a bit sleazy for my taste, I have to say. |
| 0:47.0 | Sleazy, Miss Jones doesn't like the sleaze. Well, you know what, at the top of the tree, |
| 0:52.4 | at the level at which we're being governed as a country, |
| 0:55.8 | especially during a pandemic, should we not expect rather more of our government ministers? |
| 1:02.1 | Well, you look, you expect more of politicians all the time. They're in the spotlight, |
| 1:05.6 | 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because they're in public office. And frankly, I've given up |
| 1:11.6 | expecting, you know, high levels of behaviour from politicians. The one that really rocked me |
| 1:19.0 | and shocked me a few years ago, which you may or may not remember, your tender age was Jones, |
| 1:23.3 | was John Prescott. John Prescott was Deputy Prime Minister. I would say he was a man who was |
| 1:29.4 | physically challenged in the Lux Department, okay? But he was Deputy Prime Minister. He also ran |
| 1:34.9 | the Environmental Office or something, some huge office in Victoria near where I used to work at |
| 1:40.1 | the Press Association. And he started an affair with a much younger secretary. |
| 1:45.5 | And it was lampooned in the TV series, |
| 1:49.5 | making out to be a big, fat bloke, you know, |
| 1:52.1 | having an affair with this young ambitious secretary. |
| 1:56.0 | And yet he never resigned. |
| 1:58.2 | He was never asked to leave government. |
| 2:00.5 | Well, there was that another one, wasn't there? Robin, was he the... |
| 2:04.4 | Oh, God. |
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