Bad Taste: the SDP

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 216, 8 October 1981 · p. 2 of the scan · 134 words

The scan: sc-no216.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 2, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: the SDP. Note: numbered by year: "'81 #2".

page 2 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a figure decides the time has come to join the SDP — the charm of Shirley Williams, the urbanity of Roy Jenkins, the something-or-other of the other two — but mainly the political integrity of Michael O'Halloran; he hangs himself. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (numbered '81/2), Socialist Challenge no. 216, 8 October 1981, page 2. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — '81 #2 Cormac.

2. "I think the time has come for me to join the S.D.P."

3. "The charm of Shirley Williams! The urbanity of Roy Jenkins!"

4. "The something-or-other of the other two chaps whose names I have forgotten ...."

5. (Hanging from a noose:) "... But mainly the political integrity of Michael O'Halloran!!"

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