Was it? I don’t know. And if it is, then I still don’t get the cartoon (which isn’t the cartoon’s fault of course).
Just looked it back up. An interesting history lesson connected with of all things, the Titanic. Yikes!
Here’s the caption to the pic I posted:
“... and also shows the British Lion and John Bull being thrown overboard. As I said, it was a cutthroat business. The international competition gave the shipbuilders the same cry to the government about regulations that is still heard today: that costly regulation would cause them to lose business to other countries, in this case Germans and the French.”
