Marcus Parks

He's the former coal mine and Bevan boy.

And even though Thatcher's policies were straight up hateful toward the working poor of Britain and particularly hateful towards coal miners.

Oh, yes.

She could always bring Jamie Savile around to tell the people of Great Britain their suffering was actually a good thing and they might even deserve it.

I mean, that happens all the time.

I mean, they've had how many prime ministers in the last eight months?

Twelve?

That's a good point.

Oh, wow.

Well, additionally, Jimmy Savile's charity work could be used by Margaret Thatcher as an example of why the government didn't need to help its people.

Thatcher's views, you see, were very closely aligned with the fuck you, I got mine attitude that we see in today's politics.

In fact, Margaret Thatcher is one of the authors of that particular doctrine.

But, according to Margaret Thatcher, you didn't really need to worry about the government coming in to help you.

You didn't need to depend on the government for anything.

Because private citizens, like my good friend, Jimmy Savile.

Yeah.

He's always there to help.

Yeah, of course.

Every single human being's on their own and it's the sort of like divide and conquer thing because if you make every single human being on their own, they are very easy to control and very easy to rule.

Exactly.