Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View
Another Twittish Tweet from Kerry McCarthy | BBC
What’s the Point of Our Anti-Business Secretary? | Ruth Porter
HuffPo Hiring Pro-Iranian Mehdi “Act of Desperation” | Fox News
Krugman is Seductive, Simplistic and Unrealistic | Jeremy Warner
Lower Taxes, Higher Growth, the Statistical Evidence | CPS
Bash the Unions, Gatecrash the Quangos | ConservativeHome
I Told You So: Euro is Doomed | Douglas Carswell
PM Speaks for the Nation When Bashing Balls | Quentin Letts
Time for an Alliance | Dan Hannan
Farage’s Plan | ConservativeHome
Guardian Open News is a Failure | Heather Brooke
Balls Calls for Deeper Cuts | Speccie
Lessons from the Thirties | CPS
PMQs Idiots | Harry Cole
Jon Cruddas is Not the Messiah | Dan Hodges
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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”
WTF?
Did they sack you for being incapable of interpretation or for a lack of imagination?
Morning Guido.
Can I get you a coffee?
The point of the cartoon is that the future of the country is in the hands of Ms Vicky Pollard. You may believe you are ‘between jobs’ but only time will tell. God help us one and all.
And Neil Kinnock is… ???
But what has neil kinnock got to do with it?
Why is Dave sqeezing his nipple?
Sharp this alvo, aren’t we? Have we a busy day, hopefully…
Is it a profound and deeply disturbing social document that is a scarifying indictment of the world we live in?
Yes, because the one in the middle is the one making the decision.
very good point
26: Hate to tell you- its a bloke really.
You seem to be making a point against democracy.
I happened to hear a european politician the other day saying “this is more than a democracy”. He meant “sometimes we (politicians) decide for you”
Who are they? I just don’t get this cartoon at all.
The bench is clearly a bench.
Got it Major and Kinnock and Hazel…
Na give your vote to the watermelon party and save a Polar Bear.
(Watermelons = green party = a thin outer layer of of green but actually blood red socialist to the core)
Nice analogy…
Too late – polar bears disappeared from around here quite a long time ago.
Not from Chester!
not anomymous…
Sion let out a self-satisfied purr.
He had finally found HIS look….
I’ve got it! It’s a cuttingly sarcastic comment on the fact that air-brushing leaves the protagonists unrecognisable. Very deep and cerebral.
best interpretation yet
I don’t get it
That’s Cameron, a character from Little Britain and… Vince Cable? Sorry! I haven’t had a cup of coffee yet!
Mind you, Brown will be Nokia flinging now thanks to his mate Coventry Bob!
Bumbling bob Ainsworth lets it slip and Miliband comfortable with starting class war
A Secretary of State for Defence (allegedly) who cannot keep his trap shut? Obviously well suited to the job then.
Good link, I read somewhere once that when Blur resigned they just dropped him off at the train station with no security at all, if ever there was a missed opportunity.
Kings Heath Lad? Greetings from a former Ladywood lad! (They replaced our house with the Ladywood Middleway. Buggers.)
Greetings from KH, I’ve put your link on the favorites bar.
May 6th? Nah, they are scattering too many bodies with this date tucked into their pockets. It’ll be 25th March because:
a) They need to time things with one bit of good news eg be on the back of a “recession over” story (they can’t risk another quarter of stats coming out which would indicate the trajectory)
b) Liebore have no funds to keep campaigning till May; they would fizzle out
c) They could do without having to actually produce a Budget (which is not exactly going to be a “good news” one is it?)
I would of course caveat all of the above by saying this would be the rationale of a sane person and of course Liebore have McDoom…
Yes and we have had some good unemployment and crime figures recently
Oh they’re ‘good’ figures alright. But they’re completely made up.
Crime down 8%? In a recession?
Yeeeeeah. Riiiight.
We’ve had some pretty spectacular budget deficits too and even they will have been heavily massaged to hide the true disaster.
I know someone with a good figure
I wonder if its down to the fact that no can be bothered to report a lot of crimes, its a real hassle to be honest. I’ve had several of my vans broken into but the cost of insurance, high excess and the fact that you loose the van for several days for finger prints is a huge pain in the arse.The police charge you 120 quid to toe it away and then there’s storage charge, plus the fact that the little sh1ts use woolly gloves so are unlikely to leave finger prints. I agree that I am acting irresponsible but a van down and a man off the road is is a big price to pay both financially and letting my customers down. I’ve already spent a fortune on extra locks, alarms and the vans contain no tools or stock. The poor Coppers have a thankless task with all the bloody paper work involved as it is and I’d rather see their time better spent.
Unless, Max, they hope to have begged some more money from someone who can’t let them have it until April?
The other two points still stand though. I note your thoughts below re June and I agree that McDoom would indeed let it drift on and on, ideally until some better times, a miracle and combined photo opportunity or whatever, maybe even a “review” so that “lessons could be learned” etc ad nauseam.
However I suspect the steering wheel will be grabbed off him by Mandlebum and Darling with Balls-Up coerced in tow. When I say grabbed what I really mean is that they will coax him to pull over as you would with a lunatic at the wheel and praise him for being courageous and intelligent etc until they had the ignition key safe.
May 6th?
But the last election was held on 5th May 2005.
Brown will have stolen a day.
And every day of Brown costs us all half a billion quid.
Can we send him the bill for the day he’s stolen?
Just looked at the dates of the 1992 and 1997 election. The Major government called the election on the last day possible and then campaigned well beyond the five year limt.
Brown will do the same. He’ll call the election on
There is no way Brown will call an election a day earlier than necessary. If at all.
This is the guy who bottled out after a single speech by Cameron. A guy who didn’t call an election the second he became PM while his popularity was as high as it was ever going to be.
June election. If we get an election at all this year.
class comment from cameron that brown was the only pm in history to bottle an election because he thought he could win it
I asked about that some time ago. Apparently a Government is allowed to sit for a 5 year Parliament at the end of which it is dissolved and an election campaign can be held.
So labour could go for 5 years + a month long election campaign meaning a June election.
My money is still on March though.
I seem to recall reading the legislation and there is no such requirement for a (maximum) one month election campaign.
This from wiki..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_constitutional_law
For example, Parliament has the power to determine the length of its own term. By the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the default length of a term of parliament is five years, but this may be extended with the consent of both Houses.
You seriously think Brown doesn’t know this? Do you seriously think he wouldn’t pack the Lords with Labour apparatchiks to ensure that parliament is extended. With the consent of both houses naturally.
What, in the behaviour that you have seen from Brown and his band of self-serving arseholes, bastards and incompetent jackasses, leads you to believe he wouldn’t just suspend elections altogether. Just save money. After all we’ve clearly got the best man for the job in place already.
We’re fucked.
David Owen and Clive Sinclair chatting up a fat ugly bint?
I recognise Cameron and Vicky Pollard, but who is the ginga tosser?
Kinnock
Who?
Daring cartoon. Not enough disproportionate representation. Turn on the TV if you dare to see what I mean.
Travel on the London underground. You’ll think you’re in Calcutta or Beirut.
Oops, not allowed to say that, are we?
Is it Ming the merciless, or David Nixon (exhumed)?
Hmmm. cameron and neil kinnock.
Perhaps it’s a statement on how desperate labour are to keep gordon out of the spotlight so they’re using the failed, troughing kinnock as their front man.
They still won’t win!
Are they suggesting that the Cameron and Cable are trying to encroach on Labour territory
“You’ll bally well be better off under a Tory, what”?
Not sure if that is a poor stereotype, or innuendo.
Both innit?
Having seen the alan clark thing on TV last night an incorrect stereotype. (If you missed it – the tory was under. on a train)
Surely, the twittering Mrs Brown (middle) will be voting Labour?
Chap on the left is Cameron, but seems to have Boris’s speech bubble?
The poor boys at Goldman Sachs (a hundred of ‘em anyway) are limiting their bonus to £1m each. Ah Bless! The rest are troughing big time.
Meantime we the tax payer are owed about £20 Billion.
The FO can’t even afford to fund their operation in Pakistan.
Is there a link between Alky Ada and the City? Both are pretty toxic imho.
Morning all the Piers Tarquins & Sebastians in your silly red braces.
Morning all the Piers Tarquins & Sebastians in your silly red braces.
Our work here is done.
Yeah I know… it’s Peers innit. (Like I care)
Blue skies so can’t be Britain.
I can recognise Jacqui Smith but not the other two.
LOL
@Rich and Mark
What you’re really succeeded in doing, is pointing out just how pathetic UK politics have become with the outcome of the next General Election being decided by the votes welfare recipients from sink estates. This isn’t politics, it’s scraping the bottom of the barrel.
For anyone interested in politics, may I suggest looking at what’s happening in the US and the rise of the Tea Party Movement. Hard working citizens, with the emphasis on hard and working, getting their act together to hold government to account, reduce spending and reduce taxes.
McMental and Call-me-Dave are a million miles away from all this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012202286.html
another ripsnorter for mark and rich. god mondays is bad enough as it is without this
Boris Johnstone’s Hair Is To Long ?
What a crap cartoon !
No soup for you.
‘Exiled in wales’ -Respect – you sir, are on to it!
@WEGB
Thank you. It’s just an opinion, but there’s now a huge difference between how we hold government to account, or not, and what’s happening in the US.
The only problem here is that commentators here don’t actually know enough about the major figures and events of British politics. So they don’t know a bang on caricature of Liam Byrne, or understand an amusing take on the weekend’s marriage battles between Cameron and Byrne.
If it had been Norman Tebbit, they’d be fine.
Having now looked up Liam Byrne on Wikipedia, I now know who he is, which certainly wasn’t the case before.
Why would Rich and Mark waste pixels on a nonentity like him?
Liam Byrne as Mr Burns from the Simpsons…
Nato general seeks peace deal with Taliban
There will be no deals on my watch….
you have no word on that.
Smug bandersnatch here watches too much politics on TV and thought the cartoon was quite funny… for once. Liam Byrne is certainly Labour’s most up and coming slaphead… whoops…
Is that supposed to be Dorries?