| Level | Piece |
| Ref No | LDG/1/8/34 |
| Title | "Eat your heart out Francis Drake - we didn't even have to stop playing!" |
| Date | 6 October 1980 |
| Extent | 1 cartoon |
| Creator Name | Gibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist |
| Description | 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. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Format | Drawing |
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