Bad Taste no. 78: spongers and scroungers

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 158, 31 July 1980 · p. 5 of the scan · 144 words

The scan: sc-n158-jul-31-1980.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 5, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 78 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: spongers and scroungers.

page 5 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a man thinking of the two million signing on is harangued by a bald figure — there's plenty of work, they're all spongers doing the double — who turns out to be just another Tory economist on television. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 78, Socialist Challenge no. 158, 31 July 1980, page 5. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE #78 by Cormac.

2. Thinks: "Jeez! A couple of million people signing on the dole!"

3. "Hah! There's plenty of work if they would only go and look for it!!"

4. "Spongers and scroungers! They are all doing the double! They don't want to work!!"

5. Thinks: "For a minute I thought it was a real human ...." "... but it's just another Tory economist on television ..."

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