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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #472 - Wine Time Fridays

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

While the rest of us were locked indoors, Boris Johnson and his staff were enjoying lockdown-era parties. The ensuing scandal helped topple his premiership. We discuss the new TV movie PARTYGATE (2023), and reflect on how the former British Prime Minister failed to "democratize the hedonism." PLUS: We find a choice bit of forgotten Alexandra Pelosi content from the archives. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/92102138

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0:00.0

This Party Gate movie does a really good job of conveying the fact that, yeah, what is this hard work that people are doing all day?

0:06.4

Well, yeah, NHS staff are wearing, like, what you have to wear to venture inside of, like, a nuclear reactor core.

0:12.0

They're having to wear that every day.

0:13.6

But, yeah, these people who are working so hard that they deserve to enjoy, like, wine time Fridays.

0:18.6

They're sending emails.

0:20.4

And also, through our black cleaning staff.

0:23.6

Yeah, they have to clean up after all these parties. It's disgusting. As well as elderly security guards

0:29.1

who are treated with at best contempt, at worst, you know, contempt. Yeah, I mean, this was apparently

0:35.8

a real thing in the gray report was there were security

0:38.5

guards who basically came in and tried to put an end to these parties or say, you need to go

0:43.0

outside.

0:43.8

And they say, excuse me, gov, there's a class system in this country.

0:46.9

I mean, like, that is pretty much what happens in like the scene where this is depicted

0:51.2

in the movie.

0:51.8

But I have no trouble believing. I mean, that's exactly how a

0:54.7

certain kind of privately educated person who goes to work for a Tory prime minister, that's exactly

1:00.2

how they look upon like the help. And, you know, this is a bit of a generalization, but I actually

1:04.5

do think this is a genuine cultural difference between Britain and the United States. You know,

1:08.3

both the ruling classes of these countries, of course, are utterly deluded and self-interested. But I think in the United States, because of the

1:14.6

revolutionary Republican ideals of the 18th century, because of the stories America tells about

1:20.9

itself and because it is just a newer society that doesn't have like an ancient landed gentry

1:26.6

in the same way, I feel like the American

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