Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
Focus group time. says:
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
Absolute shite.
Err… copyright infringement anyone? This is a commercial blog.
His F-cking NOSE is made of Plastic.
It’s not fair…..I’m nothing like Wallace/Gromit…..but then life is a box of chocolates…..you never know what yer gonna git nexttt…..
How did I git here. Remind me, bubba…..
I wonder if Winston Churchill would ever have won a beauty contest.
You have to listen to what a man says.
Winston Churchill was bald and so is Billy Hague. I have listened to Billy Hague and he is fucking useless.
millipede is an ugly Hunt but he has all his own hair and he isn’t fat.
Me and my mate Julius think he is seriously dangerous.
Plato
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when a person is a complete and utter f*ckwit, their physical appearance is remarked upon in order to emphasise their f*ckwittery. Likeable, decent people can get away with being not very attractive.
It’s not Labour that needs a change of leadership.
Cameron couldn’t even manage a straight win against the most discredited government since Ted Heath. He stands no chance against Ed Miliband.
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We have, and he’s a wanker, which makes him all in all an ugly wanker.
What is he saying. another Version of the Bliar Sh-t? Politicians dont say anything. They ACT to a script given too them by the STATE.
Hey guys….I really don’t know why anyone would want to be Leader of the Labour Party.
After all, all the money’s gone.
Me too.
There’s nothing left to tax.
he he, that makes Ed sound really stupid.
It’s not fair.
I hate you.
There’s nothing to eat in the house.
He started it.
I didn’t ask to be born.
All my friends parents let them do it.
A missed opportunity; what about showing Militwit with the speech bubble, saying “I can’t take this much longer: what do they think I’m made of – Plasticene?”
I’m sure others have much better though,
I can think of something but it would be too ugly to lead the comments.
Me to but it wouldnt be appropriate for a family blog like this
That would defeat the object of the cartoon being unfunny Tony.
Reminds me of the bad old days in the seventies before the Blessed Margaret Thatcher came to save us.
The Sun ran an almost daily cartoon campaign against the idiot incumbent Labour government of the time. Callaghan was always seen addressing his cabinet of Muppets.
In those days we read these in the real dead tree press rather than on the internet so fortuitously it was not interupted by Scargill’s power cuts.
That bitch Thatcher gave us all a big bang and look at the mess we are all in together now.
I almost feel sorry for the Lefties. Plasticine Ed looks like what would be the love child of Polly Toynbee and Michael Foot.
Girls, girls! FWIW it’s the first R&M to make me laugh. Maybe it’s just Monday, but the hoon’s gone and the huhne’s gone. Is there are another hoon in the House somewhere?
yeah, another 644 of the fuckers.
649 I’m afraid, smoggie.
“the hoon’s gone and the huhne’s gone. Is there are another hoon in the House somewhere?”
Yes Maximus,there is;his successor is commited to continuing with his predecessors policy & targets for useless & expensive wind turbines.
I don’t want to be a party pooper but it is Plasticine, not Plasticene
Maybe Ed should get a dog…
Yes, plasticine people can get on and off bandwagon very easily, can’t they ?
The Aardman of politics.
You also missed out can also be reshaped by others.
Made of putty, once molded it stays set in its ways for ever.
If David can shaft his own brother, what do you think he’ll do with us?
Much, much worse. If you think tax is bad now wait until Dedward Miliband gets his way.
Not even Ryan Giggs would stoop so low as to shaft his own brother.
My mum will be the next leader. Dad says so.
You can trust us, Ed. We’re right behind you.
Watch out Teddy he is behind you!
Where
BEHIND YOU!
There’s no one behind behind me
HE’S BEHIND YOU!!
So, Sir Stuart Bell.
How is that super-injunction thingy going for you?
Ding-dong
I vote he’s stripped of his knighthood.
this morning I will do a big shit then ponder what to do with the rest of the day
I suggest after you do the shit you change your pants.
why has Gordy got the wrong pair of trousers?
No need to get out of bed and do your job then.
Yeah. Sit in your own shit, Gordon. We’ve had to for the last 14 years!
Much as I detest brown, these ‘poo’ posts are tedious and unfunny.
Just let me get within a mile of his arse and he’s mine…
You sound like a nith boy
For once, the characters portrayed in the cartoon look exactly like who they’re supposed to look like. Rich & Mark must be slipping– see here: Part of the fun is to try to figure out who the cartoon is of! We’ll have no more of this easy nonsense!
Still no decent jokes though. Can’t help wondering if English is their second language and something gets lost in translation.
One is top class, hugely successful, loved by millions, well know, great brand recognition, and talented he other is Ed M.
“.. and we all know nuLabor policies are full of holes like Swiss cheese Gromit.”
Malleable, just like his look-alike but much more intelligent. I mean Wallace of course, he wouldn’t take instructions from the unions.
Aardman should do a plasticine Milliband figure and put it alongside Wallace to prove er… “something”
and a plasticine dog called blinky
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr yop
Judging by David’s appearance on TV this morning I am the only Miliband with any talent
What is it about labour that it can only choose leaders like the donkey jacket one, kinnochio, gordy & militwit, who are excessively arrogant, breathtakingly self serving & eminently comical? Oh and not to forget economically incontinent.
It must be that superior intelligence that those leftwing oxford dons said labour people have over tories. ++++Laugh+++++
All party leaders have to be wierd, its in the job description. No, scrub that, all of them.
Just thinking of a fairly sensible one of the current crop. Pickles.
I quite like the way Gov is handling education. Quiet revolution and all that.
tsk ‘Gove’
I have a lot of respact for Gove. He has moved politics out of education and is bringing education back into schools.
Top man.
He might even be the first to bring about the long-awaited parade of bleeding stumps. And an edifying spectacle it will be of the indoctrinators of the nation’s innocents.
yebbut, funny lips and a posh aberdeen accent. he’d be better off with no hair and a peculiar yorkshire accent.
Moscow Central want someone in place that they can control.
My niece is applying for a University place and she has read the Browne Report from cover to cover.
She has asked all the questions raised by Browne about teaching hours qualifications of teaching staff library facilities and employment enjoyed today by graduates over the last three years.
suffice it to say she is not getting very far.
I am very tempted to give her an IPad and £27k and tell her to start her own business
I know several university students, taking different subjects, who have only 4-6 hours of lectures a week.
And they are expected to pay vast sums for the privilege.
Aardman could do a biting political satire… ” the wrong donkey jacket”
It’s YOU !!
Or the Grand Day Out when the Bifty frae Kirkcaldy is let out on day release from the loony bin?
I have a link to a study saying conservatives have low IQs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/intelligence-study-links-prejudice_n_1237796.html?ref=fb&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009&src=sp&comm_ref=false
A survey last year in the UK showed that more students obtained better exam results in Conservative constituencies than Labour and Liberal ones.
You pay the money and get the result you want.
Yep, we do have low IQ’s. We let the Labour Party gain control of the economy for 13 years.
I really, really don’t get it.
Neither does militwit .That’s his problem.
I know we have to bother John Terry to stand trial for racism, but do we really have to rush into it. Why bother with waiting until July, just leave it up to Terry to decide when he feels he is available.
Why is Capello backing Terry again. Is it acceptable for Italians to behave as Terry, or did Capello receive a bung from Chelsea to make Terry the captain of England?
Maybe Gerrard could be capatian of England. He has experience of hitting first in self defence, and getting away with it.
Cynics may say it’s all about money.
Fuck off and take your bloody stupid football with you, this is a political blog – so by definition it is also sport-free.
Anon you clearly are new to this Blog otherwise you would know sport is discussed regularly here. Please take your free speech censorship thought processes to Comment is Free in the Guardian.
To be fair to capello he is merely saying terry is innocent until proven guilty. Cappelo does not feel able to take action as to do so would prejudice terry. Capello said “this is not sports justice it is official justice” and I think he is right in saying that he cannot strip the captaincy because of an accusation. If anyone has fucked up it is the court in not hearing the case as soon as possible – it does not take 4 months to organise a trial for a public order offence (maximum punishment £2500).
We live in strange times when an italian football manager is one of the few people defending the presumption of innocence.
Good point!
LAAADDDIIESS AND GENNELLLMENNN,
LLETTTSSS PPPLLLAAYYY DDDARRRTS.
Geddit
by extension, dont mention the welsh dirty play and only being sin-binned when he should have been sent off.
Spartacus O’Reilly I presume.
Suggest you learn about rugby, bloody micks
BUT what about that photo of Balls getting hit in the balls. Is that political, sport or comeuppance?
Looking at Guido’s cartoons is a bit like supporting a non-league football club. You don’t expect much and, usually, you’re not disappointed, but when they do put the ball in the net once in a while you feel part of it in a way you never could at a top Premiership ground.
Couldn’t say. It’s never happened.
Tell me when they produce a funny one.
Fucking hilarious. not.
Well Wallace & Grommit are quite funny. militwit alas is unamusing to say the least.
He makes me laugh fit to boom and bust.
Sally…stop showing off!
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Not the finest of cartoons in a long and pitiful history of such offerings, is it Guido? And Wallace and Grommit must be feeling pretty pissed off this morning after being likened to the idiotic and totally inadequate leader of the opposition.
Indeed. Wallace is a well-known small business man who has worked in window cleaning, baking and pest control. He is an enthusiastic inventor and engineer and did not seek public funding for his successful moonshot. He has assisted the police in solving crimes on several occassions and has not sought any reward for this, unlike that show-off Sherlock bloke.
Whereas Ed Miliband used his dad’s money and contact book to glide in to an elite university and do a couple of pretendy jobs which were of no use to the public.
We’d be better off with the plasticine bloke who is by far the more original thinker and economically literate candidate, even if he’s sometimes a wee bit easy to fool by sticking a rubber glove on your head.
I am n_n_n_ot Mr. Bean
LAbour had 13 years to improve the nhs and didn’t do it. Their notable success was in the employment, at great expense to us, of thousands of nhs managers who still, today spend their lives pushing paperclips,
That’s an insult to all us hardworking nurses – except the blue-eyed Finnish ones.
If you were the head of a hospital trust which presided over a large number of deaths, would you expect to be promoted to head the NHS Quality Commission?
Did he check your head for bumps?
Oh Sarah yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
He’s always been the heat electric turtle to me
The cartoon is not signed. Won’t get much on Antiques Roadshow, Boo Hoo
Quite funny.
More cheese Harriet?
Plasticine. Shite & Mark can’t spell as well as failing in the humour department.