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Margaret Thatcher, depicted as a pirate, is shown preaching to a crowd. In the crowd there is a banner that reads 'DEATH TO SOCIALISM' along with the Union Jack. In the distance is Neil Kinnock and one other in a carriage doing a u-turn in the direction of Brussels whilst the public give them unwelcoming looks.

Cartoon shows Macmillan talking to Baron Hailshamone Hogg who is attached to a rocket and banging a drum entitled 'Jingoism'. Refers to when America offered to sell Polaris submarines to the U.K. and France.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

William Whitelaw, Margaret Thatcher, and Michael Heseltine sit on the front bench in the House of Commons. Whitelaw looks concerned and Heseltine angry. Geoffrey Howe stands reading a speech. Ronald Reagan waves at the MPs as he walks towards Howe. The head of the House of Commons mace is labeled 'Jelly beans' and has them inside it in reference to Reagan's habit of eating them.

Context: Reagan was invited to address a joint meeting of the House of Commons and Lords. This information was leaked to the news before Thatcher talked to the opposition, causing Labour to seriously consider boycotting such a visit. (Source: The Guardian 9 March 1982 via Proquest)

Depicts a worrying Richard Austen Butler in front of an industrial plant labelled 'The old pre-atomic industrial basis'.

Depicts Norman Fowler setting off a guillotine which will chop the head off a man labelled 'public opposition'. The guillotine has the words 'privatisation' written on it. Margaret Thatcher is watching on with delight. Thatcher, Fowler and the guillotine are all on an island surrounded by water and flooded houses, the water is labelled rising prices. On the left, a man in 19th/18th century military uniform is sitting on a tap which has water coming out of it into the lake of 'rising prices'. The man has a cigar in his mouth and is clapping.

Margaret Thatcher, dressed in showgirl style, gestures at a stressed Geoffrey Howe. He is by a wheelbarrow full of bricks which is falling over as an earthquake advances towards him. In the distance. A motorway, telephone lines, a petrol station, a factory and a train are shaken by the earthquake. Above them 'Oil crisis' is written. Denis Healey, James Callaghan and David Steel look on. People labeled 'Taxpayers' look stressed in the corner as the earthquake gets closer. #

Context: The 1979 Oil shock caused by the Iranian Revolution disrupted Britain's economy. (Source: Gibbard's Double Decade Omnibus).

Ted Heath, nose in the air, is washing his hands in a basin and saying "And so I now wash my hands of this whole grubby affair!"; a disgruntled miner with dirt on his clothes and face sits on a bench behind him, with a pickaxe by his side, saying "Aye, and get paid for it too!".