Bad Taste no. 83: single figures

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 168, 16 October 1980 · p. 15 of the scan · 110 words

The scan: sc-n168-oct-16-1980.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 15, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 83 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: single figures.

page 15 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: smiling Michael Heseltine says wage increases must be in single figures, and a man quite agrees — eight or nine per cent of Heseltine's income would do him nicely. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 83, Socialist Challenge no. 168, 16 October 1980, page 15. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac #83.

2. "Smiling Michael Heseltine tells us that wage increases must be in single figures!"

3. "And I wish to say that I quite agree with him!"

4. "Eight or nine per cent of Michael Heseltine's income would do me nicely!"

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