‘Dear old pals’, Cartoon by Vicky [Victor Weisz] from the Daily Mirror, 12th October 1954
From the collection of the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent. © Mirrorpix / Trinity Mirror
Transcript
Dear old pals…
[First panel:]
Your cartoonist, still dazed after Scarborough and Blackpool, welcomes the idea that next year’s Labour and Tory Party Conferences should be held together-
[Box on head:]
Flock votes
[Book under arm:]
Dictionary of platitudes
[Second panel:]
We could then pass a composite resolution congratulating our composite Chancellor for having kept the cost of living stable although the index had risen another 10 points-
[Name plates, left to right:]
Gaitskell
Mr. Butskell
Butler
[Bottle on table:]
Milk & water socialism
[Third panel:]
And could end the proceedings with a bipartisan ‘battle’ on Foreign policy between Deakindum and Churchilldee.
[Left briefcase:] Official Labour policy
[Right briefcase:] Official Tory policy