Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View
Activists Should Ignore the Sneerers | Jacob Rees-Mogg
NHS Can Kill Tories | James Kirkup
Dave Lets Labour Take Credit For Gay Marriage | FT
UKIP Set to Out-Poll Tories | Telegraph
UKIP Spokesperson Slaps Down BBC | The Commentator
Tobin Distanced Himself From Robin Hood Tax Protesters | FT
Tories Must Move on From Gay Marriage | Ben Brogan
Has the Right Split Irrevocably? | Iain Martin
Dave’s Woes Stem From 2010 | Janan Ganesh
Cameron Has Trashed His Own Brand | Rachel Sylvester
Secret of Farage’s Success | Prospect
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Lord Tebbit has his say on ‘aggressive homosexuals’:
“Why shouldn’t a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn’t two elderly sisters living together marry each other? I quite fancy my brother!”
Harold Macmillan says:
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
Brilliant, gets better every week.
Simon Hughes gives his full support for Lansley.
Simon Hughes should try getting decent treatment from the incompetents who ‘work’ in the NHS in the east part of London. The death rates from late and undiagnosed but treatable conditions like cancer in Waltham Forest are a national scandal. The kind of twats who oppose the serious reforms which are needed are in serious need of a visit to the morgue to find out how their shameful posturing is costing lives.
To Late, To Late.
Greece troops will have to pull out of Afghanistan. WOW. The 40billion Euro’s Wasted on the Olympics. WOW.
Will British Troops have to be pulled out of Afghanistan. Will the 60 Billion and the shutting of the capital by the Olympics finish the British economy off??
Politicians wont STOP spending our Money and getting us into more DEBT.
Local authorities purchase more Tickets for the London Games so they can send their Public Sector leaders on a Freebee.
Some quack in the Lancet is claiming that NHS productivity has been wonderful over the past 10 years because more borrowed money was thrown at it by liebor.
AND their evidence? People think so, wow very rigorous research.
They have certainly kept the crematoriums going. you get a 45 minute slot and you’re out.
Well ask yourself why are private lobbing firms lobbing the government for these changes. Good of the public I dont think so.
I wonder who funded him as the BBC are all over this news like a rash.
On the Toady Programme someone on the Telegraph actuall put the BBC in the same stable as the Guardian and the Independent.
JH did his usual semi-explosive denial but at last someone has stated the bleeding obvious that the BBC is totally left wing.
The private lobbing firms are all in Athens, lobbing rocks at the Greek parliament.
All GPs are PRIVATE partnerships but most are afraid of competition.
Liberal Democrats
Yellow on the outside, yellow on the inside
” The death rates from late and undiagnosed but treatable conditions like cancer in Waltham Forest are a national scandal.”
er, you evidently do not appreciate that ” late and undiagnosed” cancer is often too late. Hardly a scandal. Rather, a fact of late presentation and corresponding death soon after – after chemotherapy, radiotherapy, operation and palliative care- all of which are done excellently and at least as good as anywhere else in the world and mainly a bloody site better.
Get your facts correct, twat.
Is that the camp manager from Hi-de-Hi?
Jeffrey Fairbrother had a better grasp of how to run a complex organisation than Simin Hughes has ever shown.
I think your answer is in the question
the votes from the norwegian jury…. 1/10…
clearly satire is not thier forte!
Masters of the single entendre.
You find that remotely funny ?
Oh dear !
I am a paid contributor to this site, Guido has trebled my rate for this thread.
3 x 0 = 0
LimpDem Evan Harris does not support the coalition’s NHS plans.
Which one’s Peter
CushionCushing ?Who’s that holding the pillow?
Apart from that, not bad at all!
Normally all characters get a name-tag in these cartoons. That said, the overall concept is much improved on many previous efforts. Although it probably didn’t need an verbiage after ‘I’ve brought you an extra pillow..’ I think any grown-up could join up the dots.
What is the pumpkin for?
I thought it was a yellow rock till I read, with labouring eyeballs, the captions. Loath as I am to criticise an eager creative (“Rich & Mark” is one bloke), I advise him to think of another career.
I think it’s Jeremy Thorpe. Liberals had a better class of scandal back then.
Why is the speech bubble wording all in lower case? Was it written by a schoolkid on a mobile?
Probably. Via Twitter.
Good effort. Meant well, tried hard. Now all they need to do is learn how to do Capital Letters
Our NHS is the envy of the world (just like our fantastic Plodservice). A magnificent black hole that swallows ever increasing amounts of taxpayers money. Self indulgent obese, and/or drug riddled smokers are entitled to lots of pointless treatment before their inevitable early deaths. Plus everyone can receive counselling for the psychological stress caused by the possibleamputation of benefits. Vote Hughes. Vote Labdum.
that good hey?
You missed out alcoholic.
>obese
>drug riddled
>smokers
Keep up the good work of demonising them, but don’t be surprised if you’re next on the Puritans’ little list, you mindless, illiberal twat.
Must agree about the NHS, though, if only because it gives people like you the right to sit in judgement on others’ lifestyles.
I think Screwed Taxpayer’s blood pressure is a little high, actually.
I’m not judging them. They can do what they like in a free society, but they shouldn’t expect everybody else to pay for treating the results of their own stupidity.
By the way — What proportion of GDP do you think the Government should spend on the NHS? 10% 20% ? 40% ? You need to declare a figure unless you’re living in Liebour Libdum Fairyland, where every item on the PC wishlist grows on a nice covenient tree.
+1
Perhaps Lansley wants assisted suicide in this country. Talk about politicians’ ulterior motives.
For everyone else but not himself
Simply relying on the NHS to treat you in some parts of the country is tantamount to suicide.
+1
I like to live every day as if it were my last. So I sleep in a second hand ex-NHS bed with shit and blood on the floor.
LOL
Please could you stop re-posting her twitters on here. I find reminders of her continued existence almost as depressing as her Imbecile husband.
Another day when I won’t be bothering to go work.
Thank you, raised a smile here after being reminded of his wife’s tweets.
I’m relieved you inserted the letter “w” in the last word!
Typical. Labour claiming credit for the positive benefits of ‘climate change’.
It was the Siberian wind from a former Communist country that caused the freeing temperatures. Cold War mark II.
Keep it up, Hoon. Let’s get a new conspiracy theory started.
He’s more likely than most to get hypothermia if he persists in parading around in his underpants on the internet.
It is actually quite troubling to think that there is somebody on the planet prepared to have sex with the Fife mentalist
Please! Some people are about to have breakfast.
Breakfast can be a two stage affair.
Down and then up.
+1000
Come on jgm2, McBust’s continued existence is a source of joy, at least it is for me. The man was lauded as a genius by the idiotic media for years, he really believed he had abolished boom and bust and could keep printing funny money forever.
Now I suspect that every single morning he feels sad. He is regarded as a laughing stock, he doesn’t dare show his face in Parliament, nobody gives a damn what he thinks, his economic reputation is in tatters, he is regarded by all as an absolutely terrible PM and Chancellor, a complete failure and a bad human being with no scruples – this is just desserts and I want him to have to endure those humiliating emotions everyday; given how New Labour ruined my country it’s the least that should happen.
The Busts have certainly gone Boom and it looks like The NHS is going to pick up the tab.
I actually recognised both characters, well done, getting better. Looking at the Lansley character reminds me of that old musichall monolog “E tha does look queer”
Just when you think Skid and Mark can’t get any worse….
why Chris Huhne in the bed?
Is the other one Simon Hughnes?
If so he should be biting that pillow, not giving it to Chris ‘the liar’ Hughne.
I will always love poo
Saving all the world for you
Where do broken nokias go?
I want to audit the quarterly budget deficit forecasts with somebody who loves me.
“I brought you something to bite on.”
Now that we FibDems have succeeded in getting our hands on the levers of power, the electorate can see just what brilliant politicians we the under-signed make:-
Incapable Vince
Chris Hoon
Sarah Teathered
Slime Hughes
Ginger Rodent
We have always been full of wrong’uns
The Conservative Party is riddled with cushions
That idiot is another reason that Camoron should keep the Libshites far far away from the reigns of power
We have the UKIP to blame for that. Well done Farage, hope you’re proud.
Nope, you have Cameron’s craven cowardice before the EU to blame for that. Who are Eurosceptic conservatives supposed to vote for to get Eurosceptic policies?
Cameron’s blue labour won’t give us the polices we want, so blame Cameron’s cowardice for chasing so many good tories over to UKIP!
They are supposed to be grown-up enough to vote Conservative, in the interests of the country as a whole, even though the party leadership does not agree with their individual views in every particular.
So Sir William, we have to believe and vote in the interests of this country while camoron and all politicians sell it on to the highest bidder, no I haven’t voted UKIP, but I now believe is our only hope, any new political groups will be our only hope.
Thankfully you are in the tiny minority. You might as well vote Labour.
That’s a disgusting thing to say.
Sir William, do they seriously expect people to put party before country and vote FOR policies which are the opposite of what they want?
What the fuck happened to tories understanding supply and demand?
When a political party supplies me with the policies I demand, Then they will get my vote. The tories offer me the same basic policies that labour pushed, and I will NOT vote for them.
I cannot vote for Eurosceptic policies, or climate realism policies or necessary immigration policies or small government policies or low tax policies by voting conservative. I CAN vote for all those policies by voting UKIP! That is the only way I can put my country first. I am NOT putting my country first by imposing yet more labour policies to be implemented by tories instead of labour.
So why the fuck should we vote conservative, if by so doing, we put our country last, behind Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain et al?
FUCK THAT! I am putting my country first and voting UKIP!
Oh f.ck @47
Yes Waad it was a toys out the pram gesture and now, now that the damage is done, they have even more to cry about. They don’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell so what was their point except to prove how selfish they are?
What a fantastic argument smoggie, until those ghastly facts get in the way that is.
UKIP offered to stand down every candidate in return for a referendum. Cameron said not a chance and as usual, his “brilliant” tactics drove him into the arms of the Lib-Dim twats.
If anyone is to blame Cameron should look in the mirror, for it is he.
Smoggie, Cameron was offered a deal by UKIP which would have secured him a full majority. Cameron turned that deal down. Cameron would rather put the interests of the unelected EU elitists ahead of the interests of his own country or his own party. Cameron would rather see labour win an election than put the interests of this country first
Cameron’s betrayal of the people of this country, in supine servitude to his EU masters, is the reason we have a coalition, not the good patriots of UKIP. UKIP have nothing to feel guilty about. After all UKIP were the only, national, non-socialist, party in the election standing up FOR the UK and the people of the UK.
All Cameron’s own work. He didn’t need to give the Lib Dems a national profile by agreeing to a live national debate. Blair was miles ahead and batted away Major’s requests for a national debate.
A national debate was a gamble for the Maximum Imbecile that benefitted the Lib Dems.
Not one scrap of decency remains in Coalition or Labour.
UKIP have stolen it all.
UKIP have as much relevance as the Monster Raving Looney Party. And similarly they are a bunch of nonentities led by a single charismatic leader. When Farage goes the way of Lord Sutch, what will the rest of them do?
Reach for the grease paint I shouldn’t wonder.
I do wish that Farridge would lose his own brand of “charisma” and just make serious arguments without any showboating or bullshit.
He’d do everyone a favour if he did that.
Oh, and he should pay attention to Basil Fawlty’s advice.
I don’t know whether that is ironic or apposite.
Do tell me, what party has incre*ased it’s share of the vote at every general election and also is the second biggest party representing the UK in the EU parliament?
Poujade, Poujade
Not really. they didnt get enough votes to swing many (any?) seats.
I do have a seat in mind where a 2000 labour majority and 2000 for UKIP happened, one can’t be certain that all 2000 would have gone to the conservatives.
Difference in UKIP is that they have a leader.
Not a liar.
Don’t be naive.
He lies.
I could have just said UKIP have a leader, that’s the real difference.
Er…Cameron doesn’t have a majority. And it’s ‘reins’
i am the nicest person i know
Whatever.
You need to get out more.
Or stay in more.
What’s Quentin Tarantino’s interest in the NHS?
He wants to kill bill.
I thought Camoron had already sold the NHS to a yank company?..
One doesn’t expect loyalty from LibDems, of course. It’s not in their genes. However, this is an important test of whether today’s Tories are a better lot than those who ratted on the leadership in John Major’s day. Have they, when times get tough, the guts and integrity to support Lansley?
They would be happier in eternal opposition, sniping from the sidelines, where no hard decesions are necessary and nothing need ever be delivered.
Like the UKIP.
Except UKIP aren’t happy, just right and ready. It always takes longer to get voters without lies.
Absolute shit !
Anyway , most Tories usually bite pillows
Yup. Absolutely riddled with them.
Morning sir!
Bit cold for the hill walking journeys of discovery.
A few beers with some Malt chasers might be in order…
Mornin mate , Just the beers for me pal
don’t do much of the hard stuff
but still doing the hill walks though !
Sorry to hear that.
I still enjoy the hard stuff.
I also enjoy the odd spirit…
Yet again it’s the opposition, both colours, that are put performing the government of propoganda.
They are taking the line that the NHS is this perfect body and to make the slightest change to try and improve value for money is ‘Privatisation’ , the ultimate work to strike terror into everyone who value our wonderful NHS.
The government MUST explain what they are doing and why but they have no chance of being heard on the BBBC.
Result? More billions thrown away on managers and more deaths from shoddy nursing.
Lib-dems are not in opposition.
East Enders just won’t be the same without Whitney.
simonhughes – the man who would be next leader of the libdems.
If cleggie hasn’t left the libdems completely annihilated by the time this coalition is over and simon hughes then gets the leadership, he’ll finish the job easy!
He’s odious on a par with gordon and prezza.
I wish to inform the House that they won’t even let me have a pillow in case I pull it to pieces and do a jobby on it.
best cartoon yet…brilliant.
Get better soon
We all know that the NHS Bill is a raft of measures to sail off into the night with …
GREEK TURKEYS VOTE FOR “CHRISTMAS”!
Greeks love the Euro so much that they have voted for Merkozy’s austerity, happily moving into shanty towns on beaches.
Austerity works?
Works well. Enraged citizens set fire to buildings, cause general mayhem — extra work for police and firemen, although they were in short supply last night. Missed some overtime. Or is it always overtime in Greece?
Not long now for the Greek troughers
Bad
Dangerous
Don’t stop til you borrow enough
Inhuman Nature
Mong in the Mirror
Beat Me
Wanna be farting something
Blame it on the Tory
I just can’t stop throwing phones at you
+ 1
Testing.
Being of a certain age I remember the Beeching Rail cuts in the 60′s, another half arsed “quick fix” money saving scheme that gave us the shambles we have today on road and rail.
In the end the actual savings were minimal “do to unforeseen circumstances” or in other words the Government got its sums and concepts badly wrong.
See the poor fool with scorched and bandaged fingers wobble back to the fire!
Reminds me of John Prescotts “Transport 2010″.
In 2000 he had £180 billion to spend on transport and with that money he achieved very very little.
Ten years of transport policy wasted.
Agreed, the predictable result…a few got rich while the majority suffered….
The same problem they are having in Greece just now.
First Labour nationalised the raiways. Then Beeching ripped many up. Now we’ve got the farce of different train companies and Network Rail. We Victorians knew how to, and did it all properly with private finance. Never mind that young whippersnapper Dave will soon get the HS2 white elephant built with 30bn pounds (probably to be nearer 100bn) of taxpayers’ money.
That Liberal pillow has been used before :-
“Scott also made out that he had been an unwilling partner in the affair in the 1960s, being subjected by Thorpe to sex acts that infamously caused him to ‘bite a pillow’”
Another poor effort at satire.