Frame 1: The Miners. The first three essipodes were drawn in 1984, when the miners strike was at its height. Essentially a battle between the right-wing ideologue Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister, and the even more extreme left-wing ideologue Arthur Scargill, the leader of the National Union of Miners, this year long strike split the country in two. In Yorkshire and Durham miners were fighting for their livelihoods, but the good conservative people of the home counties just wanted all the nasty shouting to stop. Thatcher eventually won, the union was emasculated and within ten years the mines were privatised and then closed down.
Frame 1: The Argies. The Falklands Conflict (it never quite got promoted to war) had only taken place two years earlier.
Frame 2: The Daily Express. Possibly the nuttiest tabloid in the world. I'm not talking trashy, I'm not talking downmarket. I'm talking frothing at the mouth raving bonkers. The Express is the paper that is still convinced that Princess Diana was assassinated by the Duke of Edinburgh - a couple of years ago you could guarantee a new Diana conspiracy theory every Monday. Imagine Fox News reincarnated as a newspaper, only madder and even less balanced.
Frame 7: Trench Wood. A post-war housing estate in North Tonbridge.
Next essipode - it gets even more TinTinny...
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