Bad Taste no. 38: a letter to Mrs Thatcher

The scan: sc-n87-mar-15-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 38 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: a letter to Mrs Thatcher.

page 14 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a man writes to Mrs Thatcher agreeing that the unions are extremely powerful, and the pillar box carrying his letter reveals the remedy — sending Alan Fisher and his ilk on a body-building course. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 38, Socialist Challenge no. 87, 15 March 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #38.

2. (Writing:) "Dear Mrs Thatcher," Thinks: "You are, in a sense, correct."

3. (Posting the letter.) "The trade unions are indeed extremey powerful ...."

4. (The pillar box walks off reading the letter:) "But even you cannot fail to have noticed certain weaknesses! In order to rectify this ..."

5. (The pillar box, grinning, outside the GPO tower:) "We are sending ALAN FISHER and his ilk on a body-building course!"