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LDG/1/8/117
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"And now, undaunted by all adversity, our Geoffrey will construct a temple to capitalism without resort to an ounce of taxpayers' mortar..."
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- 12 June 1979 (Creation)
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1 cartoon
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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).
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- Gibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist (Subject)
- Thatcher; Margaret Hilda Roberts (1925-2013); Baroness; politician (Subject)
- Healey; Denis Winston (1917-2015); Baron of Riddlesden in the County of West Yorkshire; politician (Subject)
- Callaghan; Leonard James (1912-2005); Baron Callaghan of Cardiff; statesman and former PM of Britain 1976-9 (Subject)
- Steel; David Martin Scott (1938-); Baron Steel of Aikwood; politician (Subject)
- Howe; Sir; Richard Edward Geoffrey (1926-2015); Baron Howe of Aberavon; politician (Subject)
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