Bad Taste: everything in Northern Ireland is a setback

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 268, 5 November 1982 · p. 10 of the scan · 154 words

The scan: sc-no268.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 10, 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: everything in Northern Ireland is a setback. Note: unnumbered; after Sinn Féin's success in the October 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly elections.

page 10 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip in mock-biblical style after Sinn Féin's Assembly election success: Rees warns that the people elected men involved in violence, James Prior says everything in Northern Ireland is a setback, there is wailing and privatisation in high places, and Thatcher subsidises tax cuts by dealing cocaine. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 268, 5 November 1982, page 10. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. "And Rees warned the people that they had elected men who had been actively involved in violence ...."

2. "And James Prior spake thus; 'Everything in Northern Ireland is a setback'"

3. "And in high places there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth and much privatisation of nationalised industry!"

4. "And Maggie Thatcher decided to subsidise tax cuts to millionaires by dealing cocaine in the home counties ...."

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