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[Mal Hombre]

The man is a merchant seaman whose ship,an oil tanker has been sunk by a U Boat,The point is that the true cost of petrol was in the lives of the men of the Merchant Navy not in a few pennies more at the pump.

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[Devius]

Originally Posted by Thinkwell

An astonishing cartoon by Zec but times have changed and I'm not sure I understand the point of it.

At first it looks as if, in despair, the man has committed suicide.

Or - he's doggedly fighting on? If there's no petrol for his ship, he'll use a raft?

The cartoonist ironically mentions the increase in the price of petrol - because it's so unimportant?

I suppose people understood it better at the time - even though Churchill didn't.

Originally Posted by Mal Hombre

The man is a merchant seaman whose ship,an oil tanker has been sunk by a U Boat,The point is that the true cost of petrol was in the lives of the men of the Merchant Navy not in a few pennies more at the pump.

My apologies Thinkwell - I had edited the post to add extra details, but omitted the source of the controversy (D'oh):

The WW2 UK government had decided to increase the price of petrol. In response, the Daily Mirror published Philip Zec's cartoon as a warning to the general public against wasting petrol (as Mal has correctly posted).

The problem was that then Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Supply Herbert Morrison along with others in the government misinterpreted Zec's cartoon as an apparent attack against petrol companies appearing to profit at the expense of the sailor's life.

While times may have changed, the power of Zec's cartoon can still outrage.
The late cartoonist Leslie David (Les) Gibbard re-worked Zec's cartoon in 1982, as a response to the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands war. The Guardian published Gibbard's version of the cartoon, with the updated quote:

"The price of sovereignty has increased - official"

The following information sourced from Wikipedia's profile of Les Gibbard:
Gibbard later stated: "I was unaware of the furore caused by it until I returned home later the following day to barrage of phone calls asking me how I proposed responding to being called a traitor." The cartoon was raised in the House of Commons and was cited as evidence, by the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that the British media did not support military action, and rival newspaper The Sun also accused Gibbard and The Guardian of treason: "What is it but treason for The Guardian to print a cartoon, showing a British seaman clinging to a raft... isn't that exactly calculated to weaken Britain's resolve at a time when lives have been lost, whatever the justice of her cause?" The criticism in turn led to The Sun’s leader-writer being ejected from the National Union of Journalists for “unfraternal behaviour

[Devius]

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[Dr Pepper]

Originally Posted by Devius

Actually some bloody silly things were don e by the Thatcher government at the time=one of which had us shaking our heads here in NZ was instructing the BBC to ban the song 'Six Months in a Leaky Boat' by the NZ pop group Split Enz which came out in 1982.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wswFjuJPbxg -which conveniently has the lyric s added.

for reasons which defy any logical explanation --but say a lot about whatever Whitehall apparatchik didn't get the song's meaning......and to link that to the Falklands issue would require drawing a bow so long you couldn't see either end with a telescope!

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