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LDG/1/9/87
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"Could be worse - with a bit of luck the tide may bring them to us!"
Date(s)
- [c1980s] (Creation)
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1 cartoon
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This cartoon is set on a beach with two boats racing towards a bunch of fish in the water, representing potential voters. Labour are portrayed as a marooned ship on the shore and the Conservatives are the boat racing towards the fish on the water. Both boats have numerous people on board with fishing reels. The Conservative boat contains figures such as Margaret Thatcher, William Whitelaw and Michael Heseltine. The Labour boat has two figures stood outside, Michael Foot and Denis Healey. Michael Foot is looking at the tide tables and Denis Healey has the fishing bait.
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- Gibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist (Subject)
- Thatcher; Margaret Hilda Roberts (1925-2013); Baroness; politician (Subject)
- Whitelaw; William Stephen Ian (1918-1999); Viscount; politician (Subject)
- Heseltine; Michael Ray Dibdin (1933-); Baron of Thenford in the County of Northamptonshire; politician (Subject)
- Foot; Michael Mackintosh (1913-2010); politician and writer (Subject)
- Healey; Denis Winston (1917-2015); Baron of Riddlesden in the County of West Yorkshire; politician (Subject)
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