Bad Taste: an ongoing leisure situation

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 231, 4 February 1982 · p. 2 of the scan · 154 words

The scan: sc-no231.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: an ongoing leisure situation. Note: the year-number in the corner is blurred in the scan ("8[?]/3"); 1982.

page 2 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip: three million unemployed, one in five on the dole in Northern Ireland — but that means four in five have a job, or you could view it as an ongoing leisure situation of increasing magnitude; let's invite Thatcher and her gang to share our increased leisure. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (number not legible), Socialist Challenge no. 231, 4 February 1982, page 2. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. (In the panel:) "Three million!! And here in Northern Ireland one person in five is on the dole!"

2. "But that means that four people in every five have a job!"

3. "Or perhaps you could view it as an ongoing leisure situation of increasing magnitude ...."

4. "And why should we be so selfish?" "Let's invite Thatcher and her gang to share in our increased leisure!!"

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