Item 85 - 3.15 from Westminster

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Depicts two trains passing by each other with Neil Kinnock (dressed as a woman) on one train, depicted in a luxury train carriage reading an Agatha Christie novel. Another train is speeding past the window of this carriage and in this train you can see a man depicted as the National Union of Railway men with "Pay Pound" written on his front. He sits with with politicians such as Margaret Thatcher (holding poison), Norman Fowler (holding a knife) and a man in a pin stripe suit strangling the man depicting the Union.

Context: Rail Strikes happened over weeks bringing london traffic to a standstill, over issues of pay rises and eventually the government accepted for the pay rises of 8.8% to proceed.