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Sets 1-3 dated 25 June. Set 4 dated 26 June.

Depicts prime minister Margaret Thatcher standing with her arms outstretched on the bank of a stretch of land labelled 'Brighton' in Elizabethan dress along with [Michael Heseltine], [William Whitelaw], [James (Jim) Prior], and [Norman Fowler], who are looking at the 'Labour party armana', a fleet of ships which are approaching on the horizon. Further inland, [Keith Joseph] and [Geoffrey Howe] are bowling, the bowling pins being replaced with items representing government policy. [Howe] has just scored a strike: a house, a piggy bank, a hospital, a factory, a figure of a 'working' man and woman, a man wearing a graduate hat, a child, and a man in a suit are all flying in the air after being hit by the bowling ball.

The title refers to Francis Drake, an Elizabethan explorer.

A banner tied between palm trees says "Westminster Cannibals' Convention" and the ground is littered with human bones; Harold Wilson and Jeremy Thorpe (leader of the Liberals) are trying to eat each other; Ted Heath is sat alone with his arms crossed, eyes closed, and looking sanctimonious - despite being dressed in the same grass skirt and bone ornaments as the others, he is saying "Eating people is wrong!".

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