Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View
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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”
???
I don’t recognise any of them, though one looks a bit like Alasdair Darling… and another rather like Neil Kinnock…
Larry Grayson?
Maybe it’s this guy:
man with learning disabilities has been granted taxpayers’ money to fly to Amsterdam and have sex with a prostitute…. err – sums up many a politician
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303273/Councils-pay-disabled-visit-prostitutes-lap-dancing-clubs.html
who the fuck are these people meant to be?
It’s a shame when Guido readers can’t actually recognise Alan Milburn, John Hutton, Frank Field and Will Hutton. Even when well caricatured. I blame the poor public school education system.
Yup even I recognised them all this time…
Who are they, anyway? Milburn, Hutton(s), Field? Are they cricketers or something? Certainly unlikely to be footballers with English-sounding names like that.
I despair of the modern generation
Old Hogarth aka Rich and Mark.
Hogarth of course having been a pioneering political satirist. How highly you rate yourselves!
‘Even when well caricatured’.
Ha ha sorry, I blame the poor cartoonist!
I’m a man who likes a good political cartoon that doesn’t dumb down and just have Cameron and… well.. whoever will be Labour’s leader. I enjoy British politics from a distance, which is why I read Guido every day, and appreciate the cartoons. That no one knows the people who often appear it isn’t their fault – its the audience who doesn’t know their politics or politicians. Bring back Spitting Image, that really helped educate the populace.
Bollocks I’m afraid.
Guido readers by definition are far more interested in politics than the general population. If even they routinely ask ‘Who is it’ of these cartoons that is some indictment.
A few weeks ago one charicature even had the person portrayed, with his name written above him soley to assist readers with identification.
Do you suppose Hogarth, Cruickshank or Rowlandson would have imagined ever needing to do similar?
Sadly so. A reader above even said “Milburn, Hutton(s), Field? Are they cricketers or something?”
shite toon
I thought the Middle two were Niel Kinnock and David Steel. I suppose the middle one I thought was David Steel is Frank Field although having lived briefly in Oxton (Birkenhead) in the 1990s I should have recognosed him
For info I didn’t go to Public School. I went to a Senior Secondary anglice Grammar School
Blimey. None of these look anything like them! For instance, Frank Field has quite a defined jaw – certainly not gurning like this. A good cartoonist can make you recognise a face with just a few strokes of a pen. Scarfe uses much more detail but picks one or two key features and really goes to town on them – he even gives most of his victims an exaggerated proboscis but even then you know who it is supposed to be.
You’re accentuating the wrong features; that is why you aren’t very good caricaturists. You also have no sense of humour; thats why you aren’t very good cartoonists. Try something else as a career.
Tonight we can all be political cartoonists.
haha
*Applauds*
Ummmm, Tsars in the eyes is a potentially good pun but….who are they meant to be.
Just awful!
Is that one that looks like a glum frank field
I normally have a hell of a job identifying one character!
My only recollection of Milburn having any kind of impact on anything was when the s.o.b. piled in to help tone out on the trucker’s petrol strike by lying his arse off on tv, ably assisted by BBC lickspittles,that Hospitals were not getting fuel supplies.
Fuck me! Not Kinnock again?
Kinnock’s son & heir, perchance?
Tsars aren’t they unelected, unrepresentative, hereditary rulers?
Yep, that’s why ZaNu loved them so much and why the Camerclegg contradiction does too.
A Tsar is somebody who’s Daddy was a bigger bastard with a bigger sword than your Daddy.
These cartoons would be much better if the artists had a sense of humour and some talent!
If R&M aren’t on holiday then perhaps they should be.
A Summer School named, “So you want to be an Artist” would be a start.
Never seen them before.
Any clues as to who they are?
Says something about how forgettable these people are…but do tell us who they are to deserve that good pun.
It is out of date already as our ‘acting PM’ Clegg has invited Gordon Brown to become the new financial tsar as he is the best qualified available. Lord Prescott is being lined up for Transport and Regional Government, and Jaqui Smith for ‘Adult Entertainment’
I nearly wrote ‘none of the above’ on my ballot paper at the GE as i thought Dave and his cronies are not up to the job. Dave himself seems to be admitting as much by using failed tossers like Milburn. Stand by to see Dave turn into Blair (remember GOATS) but without Bliar’s substance. As a lifelong Tory supporter I despair for this once great country.
That’s rich – not.
It hits the mark – not.
Well, R & M seem to have used up their “3 good satirical cartoons per year” quota, back to their usual “a 13 year old could do better” efforts.
Guido, please tell us you don’t actually pay for these?????
Ian Paisley, Ken Dodd, ? and ?
Bloke on the end in the blue tie is fictional 60s gangster Harry Starks as portrayed by Mark Strong in “The Long Firm”.
Principles, we don’t need your stinking principles.
That had potential.
Funny how we had the 40 year stand off against the Soviet Empire because we opposed the one-party state – and we get the… one-party state.
You’ve got to fight for the right to paaaaaaaaaarty
Who the fuck are these supposed to be you fuckwads?
Political cartoons are generally amusing when they bear a likeness to the arsehole they’re mocking.
This pikey oirish scum wot runs this site needs new cartoonists, immjitlee if not sooners
I have’nt a clue who these “toons” are meant to represent.
My kids could do better with their crayola set.
Come on… these drawing/ink skills are shite.
Let me put it politely, who are these bastards? Two of them appear to be non-white. The rest appear to be non-non-white, That is the sum total of information, to me.
Actually they are all nobody, nobody at all.
The one with the green tie is Brezchnev, behind him is Paul Daniels, next to him is a miserable looking Gary Liniker, and last but not least Bob Hope.
I thank you and claim my £5
Tsar is Russian for Caesar which is Latin for Emperor which Mr Milburn isn’t. Nice man, seems honest, but he isn’t an Emperor.
I didn’t know that Richard Nixon (far R) has started a comeback bid. I suppose he only resigned the once, unlike Mandelson.
Or: “How to emasculate the Labour Party in four easy steps”
Take out the sensible Labour Party members and all you have left is a lot of Balls!
Well it all seems like a show at the moment just waiting for the fat lady to sing!!!