Robin Wigglesworth

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The Story of Money · The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

So what is his first action?

What does he really, what's the the priority number?

So what are these more plausible solutions?

So this is November seventeen twenty.

Uh the Bank of England bail out has not worked out.

Uh you know, understandably the bank, which is still a private company in theory at at this point, does not want to touch uh the stinking carcass of the South Sea Company.

But what are these more sophisticated measures that you said he tried to introduce?

Okay, so we're now in early 1721.

The public is furious, but most of that anger is directed at just a few people: South Sea directors, corrupt insiders, ministers tied to the scheme, and quite a few of those, you know, happen to be Walpole's competitors in the Whig Party, which was convenient.

Walpole is the man.

He's not the Prime Minister yet.

We don't have

That title, but he is first among equals, as it were.

And he's in a position to restructure the public debt.

And you know, the whole reason why the South Sea Company was first set up, and he wanted to keep that on track, essentially, right?

He wanted to maintain the system, just fix it of its infirmities.

What exactly did he do though?

I mean

Yeah, because he did cancel some loans, right?

The Walpole did take some some of the Britain's debts and say, actually that we're not gonna pay.

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