Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain - Episode 2 (Pt 2)

Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Episode 2 - 'The Land of Lost Content' (Pt 2)
1955 - 1965

- Anti-war protests
- Eisenhower demands end to Suez invasion
- MacMillan pleads US for financial help
- Petrol crisis
- Humiliating pullout from Egypt
- Anne Fleming
- Esmond Rothermere
- Ian Fleming
- Goldeneye, Flemings' home in Jamaica
- James Bond - OO7
- Sean Connery
- Eden is out
- Harold MacMillan is new Prime Minister
- London's West End Theatre
- Hugh 'Binky' Bowman

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cheers matey!!

[JuanMacready]

@dezboss Eden did the right thing. If Nasser had been removed in 1956 there would have been no Six Day War and no Yom Kippur War either.

[MrRobertJameson]

@kimokamal5 Surely Nasser caused the invasion when he decided to break the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement that he himself had signed on 19th October 1954?

[MrRobertJameson]

@blueray1969 Thorpe agrees with that view.

[MrRobertJameson]

@Kill3rballoon Nasser never recognised Israel.

[MrRobertJameson]

@itsmedooley The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had blocked any sanctions against Nasser at the United Nations.

[MrRobertJameson]

@itsmedooley Attlee was trhe worst Prime Minister and Macmillan betrayed Eden during the Suez Crisis.

There was no alternative - we could not let Colonel Nasser get away with breaking his agreement.

[itsmedooley]

@JuanMacready Even if the war was right, he did it via the wrong methods, hiding a conspiracy from everyone to make an excuse to attack them made it look very bad, that he was just after the Suez crisis (which i believe was really his only intention)

[itsmedooley]

@RichardElden How was Eden a good Prime Minister at all? Even in this video it states the HUGE problems he caused, dividing the country and humiliating us, sinking us into a financial crisis again. He had an incredibly short leadership period as well lol, it was more Attlee/Macmillan and Thatcher who were the best Prime Ministers in terms of reforms and actual differences to Britain.

[EmeraldTriangle80]

Hmmmm Liebfraumilch. If you'd asked me at age 10 what color are wine bottles I'd of said blue. Blue Nun was at every Christmas in my American-German household

[blueray1969]

@JuanMacready what counter-factual rubbish.

[Kill3rballoon]

@JuanMacready he was also the first Arab leader to actually recognise Isreal tho...