''Battle for Britain'' was a

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strip cartoon published in the fortnightly

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'' in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. It depicted

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's second term of office as

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, but with the politicians shown as British soldiers or

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officials, as in a

of the

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. The strip was attributed to Monty Stubble, which was a ''

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'' of editor

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, and to his artistic collaborator

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Publication history

The name "Monty Stubble" is a play on the film-title ''

I Was Monty's Double ''I Was Monty's Double'' (released in the US as ''The Counterfeit General Montgomery''M. E. Clifton James, an actor who was employed during the

to impersonate

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for the purposes of espionage and to confuse the enemy. ''Battle For Britain'' appeared in ''

'' between 1983 and 1987. The series ended after the 1987 general election; this was explained by ''Private Eye'' as happening because Stubble "was tragically lost in action in the last week of the war, believed to have been hit by a stray pencil sharpener". The collected strips were then published in book form by

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Synopsis

The strip is considered to rank alongside the best to appear in the magazine. It was a satirical presentation of the struggles of the Labour Party opposition led by

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against the

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government led by Mrs Thatcher. The style borrowed liberally from

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's ''

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'' comic series, and also D. C. Thomson & Co.'s ''

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''. In such comics the Germans were typically portrayed as one-dimensional stereotypes, uttering phrases such as "Dummkopf", "Der Teufel", "Donner und Blitzen", "Gott in Himmel", "Schweinhund", etc. seemingly spoken in the accents used by

villains in British war films. This was reflected in ''Battle for Britain''.

The background

There were three groups of protagonists. *The Conservative government is shown as a

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ruling the "Fatherland".

is depicted as the

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, "Herr Thatchler", a

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c, served by her grovelling henchmen who include von Gummer (

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), von Tebbit (

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), Helmut Lawson (

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), von Porkinson (

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—the word "

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" being a play on Parkinson's affair with Sara Keays), Rudolph Hesseltine (a fusion of

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and

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) and Lord Howe-Howe (a play on

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and

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, the wartime collaborator who was

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for treason). *The Labour Party opposition is portrayed as a

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of British soldiers referred to as "the Marauders", battling against superior forces and always being defeated. They are led by the inexperienced

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"Taffy" Kinnock (

—"taffy" is common slang for Welshman) and the turban-wearing "Darky" Chatterjee (

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, who was MP for

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, a multi-racial constituency in

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). The platoon is usually depicted as backbiting, inept, insubordinate and uncooperative, which is the main reason for its constant defeats. Much of Taffy's woe originates among his own followers, especially from left-wingers such as "Barmy" Benn (

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) and "Fatty" Heffer (

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), whose "cruel cockney humour" often has the last word, lowering morale on his own side, and is a feature in almost every instalment. *The SDP-Liberal Alliance (made up of the

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led by

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, and the

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led by

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) is referred to as "the Allies", led by Doc "Killer" Owen of the

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and "Wee" Jock Steel, the

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Terror. As in many satirical presentations (such as ''

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''), Steel is shown as a weakling overshadowed by the dominant Owen. After failing to impress in the 1987 general election, the two parties merged to form the Liberal Democrats in 1988; the "jokey" image of the Alliance put across by satirists was a major factor in what was seen as a search for more "gravitas".

The humour

The humour in the strip relied heavily on

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s and put-downs, with characters often making cynical and unpleasant remarks at others on their own side. "Taffy" Kinnock in particular is always mocked by "Fatty" Heffer's cruel cockney humour. Meanwhile, von Gummer and later Jeffroech Archer (

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) are referred to by Thatchler's other henchmen as "Gumkopf" and "Archcreep schwein". Hislop and Newman skilfully portrayed events in contemporary political life in terms of the fictional battle stories as depicted in the comic-books: *

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campaigns were shown as the liberation of French towns;

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(

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) became "Chester-le-Field" and

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(

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) became "Greneviche". * When government ministers were dismissed from office, Thatchler is shown ordering them to be taken out and shot. *The

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is shown as "Sapper" Scargill (

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) leading Taffy's Marauders through some treacherous

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. *The campaign to abolish the

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(a body led in

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) was fronted by Environment Secretary

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. Monty Stubble depicted this as

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—a raid on London led by bomber commander "Patroech Junkers" (a pun on

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, a wartime German aircraft), opposed from

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(a reference to County Hall, the GLC headquarters on London's South Bank) by

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ace "Red" Ken (with "Red" a reference to Livingstone's far-left wing attitude—and, in real life, a frequent nickname for him).

Example

This particular example of the strip was published in ''Private Eye'' in July 1986, at about the time when

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was about to go into recess. *Labour had just won the Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election. Kinnock (holding the flag) was in the middle of a struggle to assert his authority as party leader in the face of an attempted takeover by the

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group, and had recently managed to expel leading Militant activist

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from the party. Hatton (carrying the bag) is shown with fellow left-wingers (but not Militant members) Tony Benn (in the dress) and Eric Heffer. *The Alliance had failed to gain the seat by about 800 votes. They had complained that the media were not giving them as much coverage as they felt their campaign deserved, which they alleged cost them a famous win. *Thatcher was being heavily criticised by other

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leaders for her mildly lukewarm support for sanctions against the

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regime in South Africa led by President

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."South Africa Going Part of the Way"
''

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''. 18 August 1986. *As a result, half the eligible participant countries boycotted the

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being held in

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. *The Conservative Party was worried about its standing in the

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s, especially as speculation was starting to grow that a

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was likely to be held the following year.

Aftermath

When the series ended in 1987, it was replaced by ''Dan Dire, Pilot of the Future?'', which took a similar comic-book view of politics. This time, the model was

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's artwork for

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, as seen in the popular 1950–1969 comic for boys ''

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''. In keeping with the

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, Kinnock became "Dan Dire" (the questioning title was over whether or not he would ever be

); Mrs Thatcher became "the Maggon" in reference to Dan Dare's arch-enemy

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; and Owen became "Doctor Whowen", a reference to

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sci-fi hero

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