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rpannier

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15. If you've ever seen The Crown, he reminds me of Harold Wilson (the one from The Crown)
Fri Dec 19, 2025, 07:49 AM
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As you said he plays the yokel, but is not
In the Crown he tells the Queen, "I've never done a days manual work in my life. I'm an academic. An Oxford don. Not a worker. I don't like beer. I prefer brandy.... And I don't like pipe smoking. I far prefer cigars.... So I smoke a pipe. On the campaign trail and on television. Makes me more approachable."
This scene reminds me of what he does.

It's a really good scene. Harold Wilson has more decency than Kennedy will ever have. But it is a good watch. The series was magnificent. Well acted. It showed what a horrible wretch Margaret Thatcher was (and how nervy she was)



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