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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 is comprised of four different images of 'Joan', and refernces an AA Milne poem.

In the first image Joan is standing with her hands on her hips and the caption reads 'Joan had Great Big Children's Boots on'. In the next image, Joan is shown pulling a hat down over her eyes and the caption reads 'Joan had a Great Big children's Hat on. The next image shows Joan putting a MacKintosh on and the caption reads 'Joan had a Great Big children's MacKintosh'. In the final image, Joan is shown standing with her legs apart and her hands behind her back, the caption reads 'And that (said Joan) is VAT.'

Set at the entrance to the "Ghost of a chance Train" ride. The train has crashed into the entrance doors of the ride which are closed and have a large picture of Margaret Thatcher on them. All of the passengers on the train have toppled over or fallen out apart from Cecil Parkinson who steps out unscathed.

Depicts a man, with a messenger bag labelled 'TUC' on his side fishing in a pond labelled 'PAY POLICY', while Denis Healey stands at the side with his arms open.

Source: The University of Kent, British Cartoon Archive.

A school teacher is leading a group of pupils about to cross a crossing, is questioned by a [traffic officer]. Trucks on the road are driving towards the direction of 'INDUSTRIAL NEEDS', with factories on the horizon.

Cartoon showing Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle sitting on a sofa discussing throwing Soviet leader Khrushchev into the River Seine.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Margaret Thatcher rides a donkey across a chasm. She is being chased by David Owen, SDP leader, and Roy Hattersley, shadow chancellor, also on donkeys, who stop just short of the cliff edge. Two big clumps of earth fall away under Thatcher, labelled 'Back Bench,' and 'Constituencies.' Thatcher carries a big bag labelled '£' to the other side, on which there is a sign pointing towards 'Top-peoplesville.' A line connects Thatcher and the words 'The pay must get through!'

Context: The government was at the time pushing through significant pay rises for high earners in the public sector.

Shows Lennox-Boyd holding a sheet of paper reading: "Not guilty need not mean innocent - Chairman of London Sessions." Behind him, a spade is dug into the ground and "Hola Camp Deaths" is written above it. During the Hola Camp massacre, in Hola, Kenya, 200 guards beat 85 prisoners for 3-4 hours. 11 were killed and around 60 were seriously injured. Alan Lennox-Boyd was the Secretary of State for the Colonies during this time.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist