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Depicts Edward (Ted) Heath being brought up to a stage to give a speech. By the stage there is a pillar with the words 'disloyal' hanging from it. It is at a Conservative party conference and all the senior Conservatives at the time are there. Only 3 conservatives including [Norman Tebbit] and [Geoffrey Rippon] are clapping Heath onto the stage.

[This likely refers to divisions within the Conservative party at the time.]

The cartoon depicts Edward Heath, with an exaggerated nose, pouring himself a cup of tea from a tea pot. He has his back to a group of men who are sheepishly handing in weapons. On the wall there are signs that say 'Prices and Incomes Policy', 'Anti-Stage Two Weapons Amnesty' and 'Amnesty'. On the desk between Heath and the group of men is a book, a policeman's hat, a pen and an eraser.

Cartoon features Harold Wilson, Tony Benn and Anthony Crosland walking away from a concert stage wearing dungarees and carrying an organ pipe labelled "thunder". Crosland carries a tool box which reads "[soul] organ repairs". In the background, Edward Heath is on the stage wearing a tuxedo and looking downcast [having had his thunder stolen].

Background information: On 6 October Anthony Crosland was appointed Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning. Also on 6 October: Tony Wedgwood Benn was appointed Minister of Technology and Power. The Conservative Party Conference opened on 8 October. (source: The University of Kent, British Cartoon Archive)

Anthony Barber is jumping from a beanstalk and escaping from a giant, who has a paper with "Giant wage claims" written on it. Edward Heath stands below wearing an apron and beside him is the base of the bean stalk and an axe. The bean has "Stand on your own feet" written across it and the axe also has "Freeze" written on it. [The cartoon is based on Anthony Barber's budget and the Conservative u-turn on economic policy in the 1970s, due to high inflation and the wage demands of the public sector.]

There is a rough sketch of another cartoon on the reverse side. The cartoon is titled "Psst - do you think we should try another song?" and shows Edward Heath and Anthony Barber sitting before a giant snake that is emerging from a container that has "Wage claims" written on it. Anthony Barber is playing a trumpet with a music sheet attached, titled "Down boy, down (please)". This cartoon was perhaps an unused alternative to the "Barber and the beanstalk" image.

Individuals featured include: Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath, Michael Heseltine, Neil Kinnock, John Major, David Steel, Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson, Denis Healey.

Subjects and events featured include: censorship, the NHS, unemployment, the welfare state, national security, trade union disputes, domestic politics, hooliganism, the poll tax, the European Community.

Individuals featured include: Margaret Thatcher, Alec Douglas-Home, Nigel Lawson, Michael Heseltine, John Major, Douglas Hurd, Edward Heath, Len Murray, James Callaghan, Harold Wilson, Edwina Currie.

Subjects and events featured include: trade union disputes, the welfare state, domestic politics, the economy, privitisation, the European Community, the NHS, unemployment, nuclear power.

The cartoon depicts a group of people holding a placard which says 'No money, No power!' [Edward Heath] is pointing at the group whilst a placard behind his back which says 'No support, No Power!'. Behind him, a group of suited, bespectacled men walk off holding a placard that says 'Ayes'.

Edward Heath stands at the end of a hospital bed presumingly repeating the title of this cartoon and holding a chart. Behind him is a [surgeon] holding a sign, but it is turned away from the viewer. A frail looking man sits in the bed wearing a face mask with "Pickets" written on it. His hands also appear to be tied behind his back.

There is a rough sketch on the reverse side which depicts the same scene, but in a different layout.

Margaret Thatcher and several cabinet ministers play in an orchestra under the banner 'The Monetarist Newsounds' in a flooded ship. They are reading from a sheet labelled 'There is no alternative.' A man labelled 'Tory Party' and a woman watch the show. The man gestures to a lifeboat out the window in which Edward Heath plays the piano from a sheet labelled 'Consensus,' while Geoffrey Rippon and another figure, wearing a life jacket labelled 'Blue Chip 14' and beckoning out of frame, accompany him.