Bad Taste no. 77: Jim Prior and the unemployed

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 157, 25 July 1980 · p. 11 of the scan · 127 words

The scan: sc-n157-jul-25-1980.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 11, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 77 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: Jim Prior and the unemployed. Note: the number at the foot of the title panel is very small; it appears to read "#77".

page 11 of the scan

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE. (A walking stick; the number at the foot is very small: "#77"?)

2. "I agree with Jim Prior, of course"

3. "The unemployed could utilise all that free time in socially responsible tasks!"

4. "For a start, they could ...."

5. "... help bring down the gang of thugs that rules this country!"