Bad Taste no. 43: an ultra-left stomach

The scan: sc-n95-may-10-1979.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 43 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: an ultra-left stomach.

page 14 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: on election day a man resolves to vote Labour rather than let them posture in opposition, contemplates five more years of Healey, Callaghan, Mason, Rees and Benn, and throws up. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 43, Socialist Challenge no. 95, 10 May 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — #43 Cormac. (Outside a polling station:) "I'm going to do it! I'm going to vote LABOUR!!"

2. "I hate the thought of them sitting on the opposition side of the House and posturing as the defenders of the rights and interests of the working class!!"

3. "So here goes for another five years of Healey, Callaghan, Mason, Rees, Benn and —..."

4. "AWK!" (He vomits.)

5. "Good grief! I've got an ultraleft stomach!"