Labour of Time: Changing British Politics Forever (ft. Tom GK)

Blackpool, 1959. The Labour Party conference is in full swing, and comedian Tom GK has arrived with possibly the most cerebral plan in PastMaster history: rewrite British politics by fixing Labour's housing policy. His target? Right to Buy. His theory? If Labour had adopted it first, Thatcherism would never have taken hold. One surgical intervention, two decades before anyone's heard of Margaret Thatcher. While most time travellers try to invent the iPhone or punch a dictator, Tom goes straight for policy. The Game Master is visibly unimpressed: "Bloody hell, Tom GK, of all the exciting, dangerous, game-changing times in history, you want to pop over to Blackpool in 1959?" Tom does. He's navigating the conference floor between Hugh Gaitskell's moderates and Aneurin Bevan's left-wing faction, pitching home ownership as an empowerment tool. Then Napoleon Bonaparte materialises in a modern suit, because Ryan forgot to remove a secret objective from the prompt. Tom treats him like a weird impersonator at a corporate event and carries on. The 1959 Labour Conference was a pivotal moment, held at a time when Britain was debating its post-war identity. Right to Buy could have been Labour's policy. Instead, Thatcher claimed it two decades later. Tom's here to correct that, then nip off to Liverpool to catch The Quarrymen before John, Paul, and George became The Beatles. Because if you're rewriting history, you might as well catch a gig. If you were sent back in time, could you survive and thrive — or would you be burnt at the stake for being a witch? PastMaster is the show that turns history into an interactive adventure game. Each episode, a comedian is dropped into the past with nothing but modern knowledge and terrible ideas. The AI Game Master is strict. The chaos is inevitable. The past will be mastered. Era: Modern | 1959 CE | Blackpool, England Featuring: Tom GK — comedian (Edinburgh Fringe: Hearing Loss: The Musical, What Bowie Did Next) EPISODE LINKS Follow Tom's adventure on the PastMaster Interactive Map 👉 https://map.pastmasterpod.com Tom GK: Instagram @tomgkdoingtomgkthings | X @tomgk_comedy | onthemic.co.uk/comedians_list/tom-gockelen-kozlowski/ GET IN TOUCH Sign up to our newsletter 👉 www.pastmasterpod.com Instagram 👉 @pastmasterpod TikTok 👉 @pastmasterpod X 👉 @pastmasterAI Email us 👉 [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices