If Only They'd Make Old Bill President of those Tribunals

"well, what's your job, me lad?"
"Making spots for rocking-horses, sir"
"Three months"
"Exemption, sir?"
"Nao, exemption be _____d ! Three months hard!"
Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander imagining his gruff cartoon character, Old Bill, sitting on a tribunal making decisions about whether men's employment exempts them from military service. In this case, Old Bill has no sympathy for a man with an inconsequential job and instantly condemns him to three months hard labour

Bairnsfather Exemption Gruff Manpower Tribunal Tribunals

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