June 15th, 2009

Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View

Hail Mandelson


214 Comments

  1. 1
    Gordon Browns tie says:

    Yesss go for it!

    • 3
      Postlethwaite says:

      Wots in the Telegraph today?

    • 115
      You English says:

      Come on Andy Murray.

    • 119
      Filthy Lucre says:

      Gordon wants the axe to fall.

      Failed Labour politicians become multi millionaires, ask the Kinnocks ask the Blairs.

      Failed Labour politicians also forgo whater principles theyt may have had in exchange for filthy lucre, ask the Kinnocks, ask the Blairs.

      • 153
        Steve Expat says:

        Surely no-one would seriously offer the cnut Broon a job when he leaves?
        His idea of speaking is to say “I take responsibility and that is why the person responsible has gone”

        Go, Gordon, GO

        • 175
          Dick the Prick says:

          Filthy – don’t think you can call Blair a failure – a complete Hoon but not a failure.

      • 213
        Churchill's Cattleprod says:

        What do you mean ‘principles’? They never had any in the first place, especially not the Welsh Windbag (apologies to windbags and the Welsh). In fact if you mentioned ‘principle’ to Blair he would probably think you’re inviting him on a Middle East fact-finding mission to Monaco, that we’ll known principality of middleeastern philanderers …

  2. 2
    I DO MANKYBUM'S LAUNDRY says:

    if only !

  3. 4
    Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

    Who is the man with the boathook?

  4. 5
    é says:

    So who the fook are these supposed to be?

    • 53

      Piers Morgan in his Burgerking ad perhaps?

      BTW Lord Drayson (allegedly a Govt. science minister) has been in Le Mans for the last week, with his Drayson Racing team, with me lud doing some of the stints in his Aston Martin (final Position 0 car abandoned on the track) gave a telling interview in the pit lane to a Eurosport German totty telling her that he was “an important Sciene Minister in the UK” and that as part of his duties during the race his blood was being analysed for carbon monoxide “the first time its been done to a racing driver” Eurosport totty “Oh you some kind of Athlete for shure?”

      I presume as this blood letting is now an official experiment on Paul Drayson (sorry LordDrayson) , he will now be claiming the cost of his Gallic Le Mans adventure on his parliamentary expenses ………not much change out of a million and could be debited to his science budget?

      • 125

        I wouldn’t mind if the c*nt was any good, but he isn’t. I used to race against the twat and he was shite, and he’s fucking wall-eyed. He had to go to America where any mong can get an international licence just by sending off three cereal packet tops and completing the phrase “Geewhillikins!! I wanna be a racing driver because. . .”. He bought lots and lots of expensive toys and got a lot of pro drivers to hold his hand in ALMS and make the results look good. No way would the MSA ever have given him an international licence. I bet the deluded sods who bought Powderject just fucking love him.

      • 127

        Don’t be so cynical.
        its important work..could have a huge impact on something at some point.
        Guido is still trying to get funding for his blood/alcohol level analysis. to see if the human body really can have too much of a good thing.

  5. 6
    PETER,my friends call me alice and i will take a dare says:

    it should be brown with his foot on us !

  6. 7
    chris g says:

    Stop slaving, and start slaying….

  7. 8
    Peter Hains Getaway driver says:

    be like this till the autumn, then the coup de grace. All broons mates will drop him like flies, good old socialist loyalty eh?

  8. 9
    PETER,my friends call me alice and i will take a dare says:

    guido time for a new cartoonist i think ! or one who can think of a punchline

  9. 10
    In the brown stuff says:

    Peter Mandelson will do it when it suits him. Then Mandy becomes yet another unelected PM.

    • 34
      Uncle Vanya De Caersomagus says:

      My Leige Lord, Meddlesome will dump on Pa broone if push comes to shove. If Pa Broone looks like he is faltering, or twisitng in the wind, my Lord Meddlesome of Foy and Hartlepool will dump Pa Brown like a bad doze of the squitters.

      So, is this because my Lord Meddlesome is a kindly person, or is he the ‘True and Secret Leader of Ye Ancient Liarbore Party’. Much will be revealed in due time. Soon, we will have my Lords Kerching-chucks of ye Euro-Cash Machine in gubbermunts. Does that mean Pa Broone is totally faroukhed now, or what?

      • 77
        Twizzle says:

        Brown will do as he’s told. Mandelson has the strings and will pull Brown any way he likes to get his policies through. Note the recent message about joining the Euro. Don’t be surprised to see AljaBeeba in full offensive mode on the Euro over the next few weeks and months.

    • 78
      El Gordo's Nokia says:

      Notice the thumb held horizotal and pointing neither up or down

  10. 11
    Tommy cockles says:

    Is it Peter Hain as the hatchet man and mandelson as Emporer?

  11. 12
    Sesachili says:

    ^^^^^^^
    Charles Clarke

    • 24
      Charles Hardcheese says:

      I thought it was Charles Clarke as well.

      This cartoon would be a lot clearer if it was done using my patented High Fidelity Render-Vision (TM) programme.

  12. 13
    Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

    How many legs has the man with the boathook? Is that Bernie ecclestone with the easter bonnet on?

  13. 14
    going down the pan says:

    friday already ? caption competition time ! ummm ? no cant think of one just like your cartoonists then !

  14. 15
    Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

    ‘Wannabe wo-man has finger on empire’

  15. 16
    Rexel 56 says:

    I would be surprised if Arthur Scargill were to administer the final blow!

    • 30
      nell says:

      No this man has too much hair for Arthur Scargill. Anyway isn’t he dead already? He was old when I was little.

      • 45
        Doctor Mick says:

        No he’s still around. I saw him recently gamboling about in a cliff top field with some retired pit ponies.

    • 146
      Margaret Beckett says:

      I like to give Gordon a good blow.

  16. 17
    Lots of love from Glenys and Neil says:

    talk about keeping it in the family…

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1193065/PETER-MCKAY-Didnt-Kinnocks–taking-ride.html

    I think the guy on the left in your cartoon is a younger Kinnock and the emperor is Lord Fondle-arse of Foy

    • 122
      Churchill's Cattleprod says:

      No, if it was Neil Kinnock the spear would be reversed and as or when Mandelson The Great gave the order Kinnock would throw himself onto it.

      You could always rely on ol’ Turnip Head – he could pluck total defeat from the jaws of overwhelming victory faster than any other politician.

      • 129

        He’s been surprising good at getting rich, though, for such a useless Huhne.

        The Penguin

        • 140
          Churchill's Cattleprod says:

          No, he just soaked the EU (and thus every taxpayer in Europe) for money. There’s a big difference between being good at something and being able to just claim a lot of money on expenses.

  17. 18
    going down the pan says:

    wheres brown’s shoe ?

  18. 19
    The Phuket Cabinet says:

    Totally absolutely phucked.

  19. 20
    Anonymous says:

    Another piss poor cartoon.

  20. 21
    Rodney you plonker says:

    these cartoons are shit, can’t you put name badges on the people so we can identify who they are

    The only person who is clearly identifiable is Sir Alan (the bloke behind the thumb)

  21. 22
    Headlinewriter says:

    ‘Man who owns a car factory goes for help having stuck on false fingernails to give impression he hasn’t any money worries and is confident in product’

  22. 23
    going down the pan says:

    HEY YOU the mincing faggot with the dress on get a move on we all need to sign on !

  23. 25
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    This is the worst cartoon I have ever seen. Do these Cartoonists get paid?

    Fucking hell,give us some Horse Faces(Becket) or Five Bellies(Smiffy)
    or the Ginger Minger(Blears).

    0/10 is the score.

  24. 27
    Anonymous says:

    If you have to work out who’s who then there’s no point.

  25. 28
    N18MER says:

    Go, read Kim Howells’s letter to the Times this morning (15th)! Don’t know what he was on when he wrote it, but it hits the spot wonderfully!!!

    • 44
    • 59
      Doctor Mick says:

      Still comes out that it is the Party which must be saved not the country.

    • 63
      Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

      I read his letter and conclude ill-feeling and jealousy, being a labour welsh MP, that the windbags have ruined the chances of his and his welsh peers ‘cos they (windbags) trough too much. Why didn’t Howells’s concern manifest some years ago, eh? I’m sure The Times would have printed it.

    • 69
      nell says:

      I like to way he suggests that they should’help the Prime Minister make the world a better place” – yes please!!!! just finish him off.

      They won’t of course because then they’d bring their gravy train to an end.

    • 71
      Valley Boy says:

      Kim Howells – theyworkforyou.com

      # Voted strongly for introducing ID cards.
      # Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals.
      # Voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees.
      # Voted strongly for Labour’s anti-terrorism laws.
      # Voted very strongly for the Iraq war.
      # Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war.
      # Voted very strongly for replacing Trident.

      So – wrecking the Labour Party was nothing to do with you then?

      • 89
        Talwin says:

        Just so. And if you add unelected, sociopath prime ministers and crony en-nobled members of the government; creating debt of unimaginable billions, then you have the New Labour version of making the world a better place.

      • 90
        Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

        He must be related to George Bush

      • 107
        Steve Expat says:

        In other words, a complete cnut like the rest of them. Fuck offf the lot of you and give us a general election.

    • 142
      Moley says:

      Ask not what the labour Party can do for the Country, ask what the Country can do for the labour Party.

    • 167
      CB says:

      Howells has always been just another scheming, lying Hoon. His behaviour and letters as a minister really pissed off my Old Labur MP.

  26. 29
    going down the pan says:

    MINDYOURSON ! launches new line in liebore party rug’s

  27. 31
    Anonymous says:

    Mandy: “Spare the wretch for now and have him sent round for my personal pleasure”

  28. 32
    nell says:

    I think the man with a fish hook is our Dave. Not sure about the hairy legs!!!

    And Caeser of course is Mandy – but why bother to finish gordon off ? He’s already down and out. It’s Mandy we need to get.

    Mind I wouldn’t mind a go at EdB*alls who this morning is spouting that despite the trillion of debt they’ve put us into, Labour is proposing to go on spending ad infinitum – no cuts!!!! Well he’s either a liar or a fool. Either way we don’t want him.

    • 47
      Hugh Janus says:

      Ah yes, the odious Balls. The DT’s headline this morning is ‘Schools Chief Attacks Labour’. In the face of that you’d think he would have better things to do than pitch the usual lies about no spending cuts under NuLiebour. There again, I suppose the less time he spends on our education system the less havoc he can create….

      • 49
        Plato says:

        Balls dropped one on R5 this morning by referring to ‘posh areas’ – for once Campbell jumped on it as ‘class warfare’.

        Balls really is most repellent.

      • 103
        Lestweforget says:

        A fitting monument to ineptitude

    • 60
      resurgemus says:

      If you want a laugh go to CiF on the Guardian and read the comments to Balls’ latest article.

      Responses are starting to make this site look pro-NuLab

      • 67
        Doctor Mick says:

        He’s being creamed. Pol Pot would have been better received than Ed Balls.

      • 97
        Reichschancellor ( in-waiting, and waiting and waiting ) Balls says:

        I went to a nice private school so I definitely know what I’m talking about.

    • 68

      Dear All,

      David Cameron, the pretentious fool and aspiring patrician tyrant, would better be depicted in an Etonian mess-hall brutalizing, for diverting fun, a few of us lower-class serfs, with the fatuous George Osborne among other accomplices, smirking and laughing in tandem.

      If elected, such subjection and misery will be our fate.

      It appears not all of us have been deceived by the crafty arts of “Call me Dave”.

      In other news, it has been reported by the reliable and impartial BBC that our Prime Minister Mr Brown, having branded his authority with such successful vigour on the Nu Labour rebels, means to imprint in them now the details of his plan which he projects will retrieve Britain from this neo-liberal, Thatcher-Reaganite capitalist imbroglio.

      Hooray!

      This man has been to univeristy and, equipped with a doctorate, shall without doubt save our nation.

      Yours sincerely

      George Laird
      The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

      • 80
        Doctor Mick says:

        univeristy?

        Is that some sort of colelge?

      • 98
        Talwin says:

        George, I don’t know much your ‘Campaign’ but it sounds terribly important and influential. I wonder, does it have a view of your chap Brown’s efforts to secure 90-day internment without trial.

        • 112
          resurgemus says:

          I think darling Georgy is a ScotNat.

          His use of self aggrandising titles sort of gives it away

          George Laird
          The Campaign for human Rights at Glasgow University, Blue Peter badge holder Humpty Dumpty and bar, Rear Admiral of Bendoon and Braceyourself, Prize Numpty, Scottish Order of selfappointed Hoons ,Campaign for real Freemasonry, Gauleiter Kick sectarianism out of football ( Except Glasgow wing ), Girl guide leader, 3 O levels ( D,U,D), Chairman National Forum of Onanism practitioners, Deputy Assistant Milk Monitor, Lord Protector of the Kit Kats, UK Human Rights monitor for the People’s Republic of North Korea , Chairwoman Virgins for Alex Salmond , Co-ordinator Glasgow Chickenwankers Guild

      • 100
        nell says:

        What did he get a doctorate in? Thieving Lying and Sponging off the taxpayer??

        My Da always said that the University of Life was the best place for learning.

        Guess you don’t get much real life in the Westminster Village!!!!

        • 139
          Talwin says:

          resurgemus, thanks for that. Chances are, then, that with George’s qualifications he’ll be an ideal PPC for New Labour.

      • 131

        Are you Dolly in disguise?

        The Penguin

      • 135
        oldrightie says:

        Words fail me except for one. Twat.

      • 136
        Master Baiter's mum says:

        Laird, your crap rants are sad enough on the Specie site, thanks for bringing them over here so we can all have a good giggle.

        Hats off though, how do you make everything you post so utterly shit?

        Pompous twat = Laird

      • 183
        Simon R says:

        Fuck off, you manky Scots git. Give ‘em independence, rebuild Hadrian’s wall and stop spraying them with our tax revenue which they waste it on heroin, deep-fried turds and Irn Bru.

        Bunch of skirt-wearing, ginger degenerates.

  29. 33
    Charles Hardwidge says:

    Can’t figure it out.
    Looks like Gord could do with a closer shave.
    Time for another spliff

  30. 35
    Anonymous says:

    I think the winning gladiator is meant to be ambitious Alan Johnson, but it could be a representation of the British voter saying: “Gotcha! Now give us the Lisbon referendum that Labour promised.”

  31. 36
    going down the pan says:

    skid+mark must have submitted several cartoons for your approval can we see the bad one’s for a laugh ?

  32. 37
    Hugh Janus says:

    That’s feeble Guido. Tried using someone who can draw?? Score out of 10? Minus 17.

  33. 38
    Doctor Mick says:

    Judging by the haircut and the baggy eyes I suppose the gladiator is meant to be Alan Johnson which by default this would make Commodus Mandy.

    This is as about as funny as woodwork in a cripple’s crutch. No, less so.

  34. 39
    toby says:

    you should advertise for a cartoonist guido.

    R&M are a bit rubbish. Shurley there are some cartoonists out there who would love to get the coverage that this site generates.

    the jokes are a bit simplistic and shit and the drawing just awful.

  35. 41
    backwoodsman says:

    Actually, I thought it was one of their better ones !
    re N18MER – kim howells, I thought blair ordered him to be topped after Show of Hands imortalised his embarrassing imbecility in song !

    • 94
      Doctor Mick says:

      Ah yes, the rousing Roots an indictment not just of his crass remark but of the poverty of culture in Jeremy Kyle’s modern England.

  36. 42
    Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

    Just noticed folks.

    You can buy the original of these non humourous attempts at comedy
    on ebay.

    Look top right of this blog.

    Now that is fucking hilarious.

    I bid a halpenny(Old Money) pre 1971.

  37. 43
    Out the Faerie Quene of Kirkcaldy says:

    Agree, these ‘cartoons’ are absolutely crap. With the money you get from this site, try Morten Morland from the Times.

  38. 46
    Tom Jackson says:

    Two poofs and a PO Spanner

  39. 51
    Anonymous says:

    With acknowledgements to the emperor in Monty Python’s Life of Brian . . .

    Mandy: “In the wecent weshuffle, I wank over the west of the Cabinet.”

    • 84
      Doctor Mick says:

      Now this is funny. Hey mate, can you draw? Not that it seems to matter to cartoonists on this blog.

  40. 55
    Beano says:

    I think it`s supposed to be Brown reinventing himself. ” The last twelve years were nowt to do with me”.

  41. 56
    Ratsniffer says:

    Back in the days when The Mirror was a paper – even though it had labour leanings – and not a shit stained arse-wipe rag, Bill Tidy could turn in a pretty good cartoon.

  42. 57
    NotaSheep says:

    Sorry but who is standing over Gordon Brown wit hthe spear? Peter Hain? ex-US President Richard Nixon?

  43. 58

    Tories are shi*t.

    Discuss.

    • 62
      Doctor Mick says:

      shirt?

      shift?

    • 64
      going down the pan says:

      good morning to britains no1 tory wind up ! you really must be a tory because liebore supporters are thick which you clearly are not !

      • 79
        grandma B says:

        Stuff and nonsense! Charles is a Tory undercover agent. He’s damn good too.

    • 70
      Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

      Won’t argue with you, they ruined me well before ZaNuLabour but I’m rearing to go under a UKIP sponsored race

      • 156
        albacore says:

        Rearing?
        Is that a typo, a freudian revelation or an observation on the UKIP tossers?

        • 178
          Sir Mufbourne-Harbor says:

          No typo, ‘Rearing’- ready and fit to launch a business under a sensible regime. You are obviously a b&p supporter

    • 87
      President Armoured-Dinner Jacket says:

      Shi’ite ??

  44. 65

    It was at the grand old age of 58 that Gordon experienced his first, and indeed his last, reverse cowboy.

  45. 72
    Anonymous says:

    Ed Balls writes today in the Guardian and then gets ripped apart in hundreds of angry comments from furious Guardian readers:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/14/labour-tories-policies

    • 92
      Ratsniffer says:

      It comes to something when even Gruaniad readers hate these useless, self-serving fucksters.

    • 93
      nell says:

      Lovely. Just Lovely. Think we could get EdB*lls to write some of his fantasy ideas on here so that we cold the same to him here????

      But of course – what’s amazing is that these are Guardian readers this is Labour’s back yard.

      Quite made my morning!!!!

      • 108
        Ratsniffer says:

        Balls is everything I detest about NooLabour.

      • 184
        Septic Sceptic says:


        Old-Noo (neé Noo-Old) BoringLiars – led by a moron. Creators of the world’s most ROBUST ECONOMY – NOT!!, BANKRUPTING the UK, TAXING YOU witless, LYING, ‘n WASTING YOUR MONEY on something POINTLESS NEAR YOU!

    • 105
      Trough Mixture says:

      Most gratifying.

      Looks like Hardwidge will have an apprentice e’er long.

    • 110
      Hugh Janus says:

      Thanks for the link – also made my day to see his own lot turning on him. What an utter hoon. To think that anyone believes a word of this claptrap.

    • 168
      Blooper says:

      Ed Balls on Sky News. Interview this moring was wrapped up with Eamon Holmes asking viewers “Ed Balls, honest, or deluded? Let us know”

    • 195
      Cigar Smoking Man says:

      I read the first page of comments without finding a single one that was remotely supportive of the banksters’ shill Balls. Oh my. Who could have imagined that inside the big girls blouses of Grauniad readers, there beat such passionate hearts – as of a lady spurned?

  46. 74
    Anonymous says:

    So why is Morrissey trying to harpoon Gordon Brown?

  47. 75
    simon r says:

    Well that is a load of sh*t isn’t it – why is Tony Curtis about to spear Chris Moyles and why is Elton John dressed up as an emperor ?

  48. 81
    Anonymous says:

    My kids could draw better.
    Stop using these shit “artists”
    No one hardly recognizes who they draw.

    Its abit like having Phil Cool doing Ronald Reagan,
    and then having to explain his impersonation.

  49. 82
    going down the pan says:

    the guy with the hook is piers morgan in’it ?

  50. 85
    Anonymous says:

    The idea is good, but who is holding the spear/boathook? Is it meant to be an amalgam of people?

    • 104
      Doctor Mick says:

      Is it a spear/boathook. It could be a Number 5 iron which would make the bloke Sir Faldo who is about to thwack a glass eye into the mob of baying plebs.

  51. 86
    spartacus says:

    I am…

  52. 91
    RavingMad says:

    Where have the expenses gone???

    Kitty Ussher, she of the department for increasing one’s financial portfolio, telling how awful it has been yet still part of a government that is awash with our money!

    Where have the expenses gone???

    • 116
      nell says:

      To the Kinn*cks.

      They should be wearing matching T.Shirts saying “We are the Very Best Troughers of the Lot !!!!”

      To date 6 pensions totalling £185,000 per annum
      £10-12million taken out of the EU in Expenses and expenses and expenses.
      Have they brought it all home? Or is it in an off shore account somewhere.
      No doubt Ge*ffrey R*binson will be advising them
      Or perhaps that’s where Mandy got the money for his £2.5million London mansion.

      Or is there someone who can claim to better their record??

  53. 96
    My 3 year old could do better says:

    This cartoon is utter shite.

    • 150
      no longer anonymous says:

      Guido only uses them to get a reaction…

    • 190
      Thats News says:

      Do not be absurd! You are a 15-year-old virgin, so have no children of your own, yet.

      • 197
        My 3 year old could do better says:

        No, I’m 40-something, slightly overweight with too much of a like for guinness. And yes, my daughter is able to draw outlines in crayon that can be interpreted in any way you can imagine.

        A bit like Broon’s ‘strategies’ really…

    • 214
      John Keynes says:

      If it had been around earlier it could have been a Labour MP.

  54. 106
    nell says:

    Good God! It’s Alan Johnson!!

    Umm I don’t think he’s got that sort of killer instinct.

    If johnson really does take over before the next election, someone else will have to displace gordon for him.

  55. 114
    Anonymous says:

    Who are the characters supposed to be?

  56. 118
    The First Lord of the Treasury says:

    It’s the ex-Second Lord of the Treasury stabbing the First Lord of the Treasury in the back.

    For those that no nothing about nothing that means its the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer stabbing the Prime Minister in the back.

    In other words it’s a skinny Gordon Brown stabbing a fat Gordon Brown in the back.

    I love Mondays, they’re the furthest day from the next one.

  57. 128
    Steve Expat says:

    Slightly offtopic, but as there’s a few people unhappy with Guido’s cartoonist…

    Someone with too much time and a fantastic imagination!

    Credit: The superb Beau Bo D’Or http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog (nothing to do with me, I just think he’s great!)

  58. 132

    The Tories must be challenged on their spending plans otherwise they will burn down schools, gang rape nurses and kill the poor. Just for starters. You think that they won’t come for you? They will shoot your dog. The Tories are worse than cannibals.

    • 137
      • 141
        Zed says:

        Mine too.
        No need for major cutbacks in any case.
        Simply take immediate action to bring Puclic Sector pensions in line with the average private sector benefit.
        Fixed.

      • 171
        resurgemus says:

        Charles

        As you know I am a great fan of your game ” Being Charles Hardwidge by Charles Hardwidge “. However as I pointed out in an earlier post I am beginning to worry your latest upgrade ” Cabinet Reshuffle ” is breaching copyright:

        1. Your cabinet contains a Gordon, John, Alan, loads of Scots and Douglas Alexander is clearly a Virgil – are these not the main characters in Thunderbirds ?
        2. The character Gordon claims to have saved the world ; this is a clear allusion to International Rescue.
        3. Your former character “Jacqui” as Blunderbird was much more original

        * Charles Hardwidge games are available on all North Korean websites “ Ronery Games for Ronery Peopre “

      • 200
        going down the pan says:

        tory policy should be : no unemployment unless you’ve worked . only one lot of child support for first born child . labour stations where you turn up sweep streets and get payed your dole no turn up no dole . no NHS unless you pay your NI labour have become the same as their core vote in this something for nothing, free money ,cuckoo state !

    • 144
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      Whilst we are challenging the Tories, presumably it means that Labour haven’t to answer any questions

      Labour is in Government, not the Tories

      How about some accountability?

    • 147
      Steve Expat says:

      Why is it that the Labour types think that cutting public spending means getting rid of nurses and teachers?

      Let’s just start with the “Director of Equality and Diversity” positions, all these cnuts in non-jobs earning a fortune are why we have a problem – there are more managers than doctors in the NHS today, redress that balance and we will be getting somewhere.

      • 176
        Hugh Janus says:

        Hear, hear. The bloated army of managers, diversity outreach workers, gender equality enforcers and the whole rag-bag of NuLiebour politically-correct empire building should be targeted for a wholesale clear out long before anyone considers reducing front line staff.

    • 151
      I like nurses says:

      Sounds awesome, please direct me to the nearest Conservative Club.

    • 158
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Don’t forget the zombie plague and the killing of the first born.

    • 173
      resurgemus says:

      Charles

      As you know I am a great fan of your game ” Being Charles Hardwidge by Charles Hardwidge “. However as I pointed out in an earlier post I am beginning to worry your latest upgrade ” Cabinet Reshuffle ” is breaching copyright:

      1. Your cabinet contains a Gordon, John, Alan, loads of Scots and Douglas Alexander is clearly a Virgil – are these not the main characters in Thunderbirds ?
      2. The character Gordon claims to have saved the world ; this is a clear allusion to International Rescue.
      3. Your former character “Jacqui” as Blunderbird was much more original

      * Charles Hardwidge games are available on all North Korean websites “ Ronery Games for Ronery Peopre “

      (previous post missed Charles, he really must get his IT fixed )

    • 182
      King Miguel of Tonga says:

      I do not have a dog and so have nothing to fear.

    • 199
      going down the pan says:

      small widge : you forgot they will eat your children !

  59. 138
    Zed says:

    O/T
    I’m all for having Kenneth Clark in shadow cabinet as it offers diversity and a broad selection of views, he is competent and a good orator.
    However, his position re EU membership was always likely to be a concern in future. His latest comments are ill-advised.
    The Tories need to take a look at their own PLUS the UKIP votes as registered at local and Euro elections.
    If they choose to sit on the fence and allow EU ratification to go ahead then they will most likely lose the option to win overall control at a GE.
    I, for one, am likely to vote Conservative at GE but if they meekly accept ratification “with some items to be challenged” without a referendum or a policy of withdrawing then I will be voting UKIP.
    And I don’t believe I’ll be alone.
    Be careful, Dave. Get Clarke in line or risk the wrath of your core vote just as you are in pole position to take power.

    • 152
      Anonymous says:

      I agree with Zed’s views re Tories stance on EU

      This plus the Osborn line on ‘cuts’ would give the public some comfort in respect of ‘honesty’ – if Liebour continues lying then it will surely end in massive defeat.

    • 157
      Moley says:

      It is of course possible that the Irish will delay their repeat referendum until the British have been given their say by David Cameron.

      Putting it another way, don’t rely on the Irish to let Dave off the hook.

      • 201
        going down the pan says:

        we could save a billion a year if liebore didn’t hold a fucking enquiry every time someone farts !

  60. 145
    Sir William Waad says:

    Did Rich do the drawing while Mark came up with the witty caption? Or did Mark do the colouring-in?

  61. 155
    Anonymous says:

    It reminds me of the time I ran over a cane toad just outside Brisbane.

  62. 159
    Iberia Technical Advice says:

    Techy, it would be really useful if A links in posts (and website URL’s) had the “target=_blank” value to save us having to leave the site and then come back again. It would keep more of your visitors too. Once they have left they can be easily sidetracked.

  63. 160
    Clare Short MP says:

    “Gordon Brown is a tragedy”

  64. 163
    • 203
      going down the pan says:

      Gordon eyeglass Mctwat said it’s the funniest thing since George Bush gave him a ride in a golf cart !

  65. 166
    Barack Ofcoursegordonisabummer says:

    Not all cartoons are meant to be funny you numpties

    • 204
      NUMPTY WITH NO SENSE OF HUMOUR says:

      please explain it to me then as im a humourless numpty ?

  66. 174
    Mr 10% says:

    How long before Brown’s “Mr 10%” label for David Cameron backfires?

    In view of labour’s woeful euro elections results, perhaps during PMQ’s Cameron should throw it back at Brown and refer to him as “Mr 15%”

  67. 177

    Well Gordon says it started in America. This guy from the Wall Street journal and a member of the Council of the Centre for Policy Studies, was formerly an operations adviser at the World Bank and senior economist at the International Labor Organization, says hardly!. Very well worth a read.
    You can read the whole article here.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124500992205413331.html

    Here are just some of the points he makes.

    Gordon Brown tolerated and even encouraged the formation of these bubbles for several reasons. The traditional sources of Britain’s economic strength, the mining and manufacturing industries, shrank during his term as chancellor. Total mining sector output, including oil and natural gas, dropped by 31% between 2000 and 2007. Total manufacturing production was stagnant during this period.
    The gross value, in inflation-adjusted prices, of output from all production industries combined fell by 3% between 2000 and 2007. Their employment level dropped by nearly 1.1 million over the same period. These trends were not an inevitable result of shifts in comparative advantages that are said to occur in advanced economies. Real manufacturing output rose at an average annual rate of 2.2% in the U.S., 1.2% in Germany and 1.1% in France between 2000 and 2006, according to the World Bank.

    Bye Gordon

  68. 180
    Anonymous says:

    Cesar John Major??!

    Damn there’s more conspiricy shit going on than I thought, never would have imagined he still had such a high hand in things.

  69. 181
    A mendacious, meddling, micro-managing control freak says:

    I’ll have ye knoo I’m still i/c !!

    an’ nuthun’s ma fult!!!

  70. 187
    Simon R says:

    Elvis comes out of hiding just to help rid the world of Snotty “Aim for the” Broon

  71. 188
    Bert the Cert says:

    isn’t today Jackie Smith day?

    • 198
      Vote vote vote for Jacqui says:

      I think you are right. Her husband will celebrate with an extra wank.

  72. 189
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    No change on Europe with the Tories – I am so glad I did not revert to being a Tory voter at the recent elections.

    Cameron really is the heir to Blair – a duplicitous two faced politiko who’s only ambition is power.

    There will be no referendum on the Lisbon Treaty under a Conservative Government.

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…..

    Dissolve Parliament, yadda, yadda…

  73. 191

    Dear All

    A duck goes into a Job Centre. Then man says, “You’re in luck. The Circus has come to town and they have a vacancy for a talking duck.”

    The duck says,

    “A talkin’ duck? That’s nae bloody good to me, man. I’m a joiner!”

    This Wednesday I shall be guesting on the Andy Stewart Show, playing the spoons, singing a few songs and telling a few wee jokes.

    Why don’t you tune in? It might change your life!!!!!

    Human rights for all.

    Yours sincerely

    George Laird

    The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

    • 193
      Adrian Prole says:

      Ha ha … and shouldn’t that be “in Glasgow” rather than “at Glasgow”?

    • 207
      going down the pan says:

      andy stewart’s been dead for about 20years .bit like your act i suppose !

      • 208
        going down the pan says:

        what about our human rights having to watch andy stewart the jock transvestite every new year for 30 years ?

  74. 192
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Mandleson MUST be compelled to explain his house funding arrangements .

  75. 194
    Chris says:

    “I am Susan Boyle” shouts Brown spread-eagled on the floor. “No, I am the real Susan Boyle” claims man with spear. The audience stand and cry out “We are the real Susan Brown”. Caeser Cowell sighs and gives the thumbs down, “Kill the bitch!”

  76. 196
    subrosa says:

    Guido, you missed this wee gem the other day. Is there love between Keith Vaz and Diane Abbot?

    http://tiny.cc/P1lCZ

  77. 209
    Nice ice pick on prick says:

    Can someone track down the ice pick that was used on Trotsky in Mexico City all those years ago – and use that?

    Delicious irony….

  78. 211
    McBroon says:

    I canna recognize meself…
    shite-toonz

  79. 212
    Gordon's glass eye says:

    Wait till biggus dickus hears of this!



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