Pull Yourself Up By Your Buttplugs | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 6/6)

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Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

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4.7 • 990 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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By mummy’s third term she’s so high on her own supply that she thinks teaching kids about homosexuality will give them AIDS and decides taxing people for being poor is a great idea The show for people who like history but don't care what actually happened. For weekly bonus episodes, ad-free listening and early access to series, become a Truther and sign up to the Patreon ⁠patreon.com/fintaylor CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Mummy’s last term 03:36 - Mystery Bum disease 08:50 - Gaydemic 15:15 - X-Thachtor 16:50 - Don’t die of ignorance 18:26 - Section 28 23:18 - Poll Tax 28:04 - Tories turn on Thatcher 31:42 - Mummy’s gone mad 34:47 - Miner stroke 37:28 - Ding Dong 40:02 - Thatcher’s Legacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back Maggie's children to the final part of our epic series on Mummy and the Falklands.
0:21.0	I'm joined by Horatio Gould.
0:22.4	Hello.
0:23.0	To dissect Thatcher's final term in office.
0:26.5	Mummy's last stand.
0:28.3	Yes.
0:29.2	Where she, you know, she takes it too far even for her friends.
0:32.4	Yeah.
0:32.9	She really, she really settles in for this one.
0:35.0	The foot is on the accelerator.
0:36.4	Yeah.
0:36.7	Where are we going? Yeah. Straight into the Thames. It's tough. It's tough. It's his Godfather three. It's the longest serving Prime Minister at this point? The first one to win three terms since that one in the Victoria, Earl of Liverpool in the 1820. The first Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool to win three consecutive general elections.
0:55.3	Now is she winning these because of the first past the post system?
0:59.1	She's unpopular with parts of the country that are underground.
1:03.9	They're under, because we should, we should stress.
1:06.1	So there's an underground movement against Satcher.
1:07.9	No, not in that way.
1:08.7	Literally underground.
1:09.6	Yeah, they're underground and they're blacktop., they're digging out burnt toast to power an ailing system, really. Creaking industrial system. How are we still powered by burnt toast? I don't understand. As we made it clear in our last episode, none of us understand what coal is. So going into the 1987 general election, the economy is experiencing strong growth.
1:30.5	Unemployment was falling, inflation was low.
1:33.1	The conservatives highlight this economic stability with their campaign using the simple message, Britain is great again.
1:39.0	Don't let Labor wreck it.
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