Britain needs its Mummy: Jim Callaghan | Post War British Prime Ministers, 1945-1979
Fin vs History
Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Finn versus history. This is part 10. This is it. We've done it. If you've made it this far, what the fuck is wrong with you? What the fuck is wrong with you? If you're still with us, you've got nothing on in your life. This is in the fucking toilet. This podcast is in a fucking state of emergency. Countries in the toilet. This is the final part of our podcasting ultramarathon, post-war British prime ministers |
| 0:39.5 | 1945 to 1979. The long road to Thatcher. Mommy, mommy, wake us up, would you? |
| 0:49.6 | Well, you've shat yourself at nursery and now your mummy's come to pick you up early. |
| 1:12.8 | That's where we're at. That's where we're at. We're two toddlers with shit in our pants. To recap, Harold Wilson's second term, he is being... Granddad got pegged. Don't peg your granddad. Leave granddad alone. Yeah. He just wants to enjoy his worth his originals in peace. Yeah. But he's been... Great Marcia, great Marcia Williams is riding |
| 1:11.0 | round round down straight. He just wants to enjoy his worth as originals in peace. Yeah. But he's been... The great Marcia... Great Marcia Williams is riding... |
| 1:13.1 | Round down the street. |
| 1:14.9 | Like a fucking pony. |
| 1:16.9 | And he resigns in 1976. |
| 1:19.8 | Out of just exhaustion. |
| 1:21.1 | Having not sold anything, nothing's been sold. |
| 1:23.3 | To be fair, no one's sold anything for maybe 10 years at this point. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.8 | No one has had any good ideas. |
| 1:30.1 | No. |
| 1:30.7 | And so in comes James Callahan. |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.4 | Jim Callahan, who I think unfairly is often called the worst prime minister we've ever heard. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.6 | Because I mean, 74 is what sealed the fate that Thatcher's coming in, right? Yeah. But 79, he actually did all right considering. 74's where actually properly went wrong. 74 to 76, yeah. Yeah. That was kind of when it properly got fucked. But he was kind of managing it all right considering. It just took a while for Thatcher's coming in. I think as big error as we'll get to is when he calls the election. That's what fucks it. So he comes to power in 1976. So he's the most experienced man for the job, basically. He's maybe the most experienced man to ever get into. Prime Minister. He's the only person to have ever held all four ministers of state. But admittedly, he did get fired from one... |
| 2:17.7 | From all of them? |
| 2:34.8 | Yeah, so he was... I think he was like foreign secretary and he did a bad job and then he got moved to home secretary. So like a sort of Catholic priest... Who's going around the parishes? Yeah, who's been moved around. Yeah. Yeah. You wouldn't say, you know, he's the best priest in the country because he's into so many different parishes. No, he wouldn't. |
| 2:35.4 | No, he's got different... |
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