Bad Taste no. 46: five years of Tory rule

The scan: sc-n99-jun-7-1979.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 46 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: five years of Tory rule.

page 14 of the scan

Six-panel cartoon strip: after the 1979 election a man contemplates five years of Tory rule — attacks on the unions, cuts, racist immigration laws, repression in Ireland — and nobody can tell the difference from a Labour government. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 46, Socialist Challenge no. 99, 7 June 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #46.

2. "So this is it! Five years of Tory rule coming up!"

3. "Attacks on the unions — cuts in the social services — racist immigration laws — all this and more —"

4. "And for Ireland the usual formula — repression and then some more repression —"

5. "Sounds just like a Labour government to me." "How do you tell the difference?" (A small sign: [illegible].)

6. Thinks: "I don't know! How DO you tell the difference?" (A card:) "Answers (on a postcard please) to: Kier Hardy, Transport Hse."