Bad Taste: Tebbit and Yosser

The scan: sc-no279.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 11, 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: Tebbit and Yosser. Note: unnumbered.

page 11 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip on "Boys from the Blackstuff": Snowy Malone is more real than Thatcher, Dixie Dean, Loggo and Chrissie are human but Norman Fowler is an android from Tau Ceti — the most important task for revolutionaries is a face-to-face confrontation between Tebbit and Yosser; most entertaining, but hardly sufficient to destroy the Tories. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 279, 2 February 1983, page 11. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac. "Snowy Malone is, of course, more real than Thatcher ..."

2. "... And Dixie Dean, Loggo, Chrissie are humans but Norman Fowler is an android from Tau Ceti ..."

3. ".... But the most important task facing socialist revolutionaries today is to arrange a face-to-face confrontation between Tebbit and Yosser!"

4. "First, the demand, 'Gi'es a job' — the obnoxious reply — then ....." (Yosser headbutts the Tory.) "Most entertaining — but hardly sufficient to destroy the Tories!!"