Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View
Reform the House of Lords | Nigel Farage
Labour Members Don’t Believe Ed Can Be PM | Rafael Behr
How China Bought Britain | London Loves Business
Why Dave Shouldn’t Check His Twitter | Buzzfeed
Young People Getting More Libertarian | ConHome
How to Write a Dan Hodges Column | Left Foot Forward
Politicians Made This Mess | Douglas Carswell
Magna Carta – Walking in King John’s Footsteps | Anna Raccoon
How to Stop Reckless Bankers | Guido Fawkes
Tories Double Younger Support | Guardian
Public Prefers Boris to Dave | Times
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
UKIP Official Policy Dept says:
Bloody foreigners, coming over here taking all our twitter followers
I am a Ferrari.
More like an ‘effin clapped out Trebant Gordon
Government Skint. Selling roads to pay for ongoing WAR. ha ha. People with Property dont have a chance or any investment
I’m a pretty straight kinda guy and the on-line poll told me that even I wasn’t stupid enough to try that one!
Thank heaven for George Osborne
We, the undersigned support the Chancellors proposed scrapping of all taxes for the wealthy London elite
signed
All NHS doctors
All Left Wing voters living in NW or SW London
All former Labour MPs
All Guardian correspondents (currently in Tuscany)
All executives at the Red Channel, White City & Broadcasting House
All Left Wing Mayoral candidates
All members of the Liberal Elite with second homes
All Left Wing members with Diner Club status
Of course I’ve got to sell the roads! Every year I give £12billion to my chums in the EU, and £11billion to ‘impoverished’ countries with nuclear weapons and space programmes.
After frittering all that away, there’s hardly going to be any left to spend on Britain, is there what what?
Toodle pip.
Do the foreign countries we give the Billions to, spend on British military kit so that the Directors of those businesses, Ex Politicians. make a fortune with their propped up shit bullet proof vests???
Just wondered.
Is it John Belushi from the blues brothers?
There are Ferraris at the bottom of my garden.
I think you’ll find that’s Chris Evans’s garden you’re thinking about.
LOL ( ish )
Hooray. best one yet
Just spotted Ed Miliband and that awful Rachael Reeves gladhanding in Morrisons, Camden Town. Has anyone else noticed the size of his feet?
So, a rich man tells the government to tax poor people and then spend part of the money raised on his hobby. Nothing odd about that, The wealthy have been enjoying subsidized operas at public expense for years. Why not get to play at feeding Africans? For amoral egotists like Geldof and most other celebs, its no stranger a fad than following some guru or washing your bowels out backwards.
Takes the word “hypocrite” to new heights.
Now come on, at least Geldof’s raised a couple of slags
Naah. That would probably b Malcolm Walker, the CEO of Iceland who got his shoppers to pay for his holiday jaunt with his son in the himalayas in the name of ‘charity’.
What is wrong with that? Boaz.
http://therantingkingpenguin.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/handycock-rides-gravy-train.html
Nothing to you, you crooked Bastard.
Just a thought – I get it that the socialists hate Thatcher, but why do they never accept that if it were not for their madcap economic disaster labour governments we would never have needed Thatcher to do what she had to do?
In effect, the Socialists put Thatcher into power – and they need to be reminded of it.
Mrs T (PBUH) Is hated mostly by the left for proving them wrong. Marxism is a religion and she killed their god.
In order for them to admit that Thatcher was their creation would need a mindset that recognised that socialism as espoused by the Labour Party had some innate flaw in it’s character and the selection of it’s Leaders.It could then move on, rectify its inadequacies and start building a coherent, modern, fiscally continent contender for government.Sadly history in the form of the last five Labour stints in charge only reinforces the truth that socialist labour government in this country is a fxxking nightmare for everybody, especially the working classes and Labour have learnt nothing.
Brown was a classical example of this in that he was tribal,spiteful,promoted far beyond his competence and managed a bullying clique that still haunts the corridors of power and is still well represented on the opposition front bench which gives me no confidence that they will ever learn any lesson that labels them as the failures they are.
I am no socialist but regard Thatcher’s “achievements” as a very mixed bag. Overall a pretty poor legacy.
Now with the memory of Bliar’s PFI’s (we will be in hock for centruries with no way out) we now have the suggestion that roads will be going the same way. FFS.
It really is getting desperate. Next they’ll be auctioning invitations to dinner at the Palace.
What a bunch of clueless oxygen thieves!
Haven’t the rich suffered enough ?
http://tinyurl.com/stamp-duty-avoidance
No
Bejesus sure-I’ve got the readies to “Feed the world”-I could that allright -but not wi my feckin money.
He needs all his money to keep his slutty daugthers
I don’t mind looking after them the odd time, if it helps out…
I’ll do bath nights. See if I can’t scrub them dirty whores clean.
I don’t mind looking after them the odd time, if it helps out…
I’ll do bath nights. See if I can’t scrub them dirty whores clean.
Give us your fcking money. I need it more than you.
But sir you already have all my money and you have spent money I do not have which I cannot give you.
Me, Angelina Jolie, Sean Peenn, Tony Bl4ir, me and I all agree that governments need to take money from normal people to spend it on things which make us feel good.
As for me? I don’t like paying tax. Who does?
But do you like the way that hired thugs are tax deductible.
I get to fly business class around the World you know
So is it Nick Clegg and the mansion tax being satirised, or is it Bob Geldof’s “doing [extremely!] well by doing good, ” or both? Except that, as usual, at least one of the objects of the satire is drawn in such a way that it invites speculation as to who it is; tell me the drawing couldn’t be of Osborne– you lie if you say it doesn’t look at least as much like him as it does Clegg. Only, why would he be going after Geldof— HMM? Questions abound…
Now here’s the REAL question:
Guido, are there compromising photos of you in a safe-deposit box somewhere? Or did R & M save your life years back, and it’s a debt of gratitude?
Had you considered that Rick and Mark might be on the same pay-scale as the sub-eds are here?
only until local pay rates come in though
Let’s hope they’re not paid by the larf.
Classic case of not following news so doesn’t get joke. Bob Geldof own his house through an offshore company, Osborne is going to crack down on this device in the budget. Does this help?
Actually, my point was, why Gideon? Are they going to make HIM “bad copper” going after do-gooders who seem to be personally profiting as well, letting HIM get the bad publicity bound to ensue? (I should have made the “he” in that sentence upper-case.)
No. no, no no,no,no; you’ve missed the point entirely.
Rich and Mark have scaled the heights of political satire and have turned the genre around; ever keen to challenge and provoke, this never-ending stream of mediocre work is actually a telling perspective on the state of politics. Mediocre reflects mediocrity and is reflected in turn by mediocrity; dysfunctional begets dysfunctionality at a level which can only be properly reflected by the outworking within a medium that itself is not working. To say that ‘these are not funny’ is to offer the highest praise – to acknowledge the utter triumph of the cartoonist’s art.
And (and of course you’re ahead of me, I expect) that loss ofunction extends to the viewer. There is nothing for us to appreciate; we are drawn in by expectation only to turn away put off by the barriers to comprehension; returning to work harder we finally glimpse something – confused by the displayed work, we ask why the photo of the house in the background instead of drawing it? – which of course is the exact question we SHOULD be asking.
Our very political conceptual architecture is challenged. Our responses define their triumph; all the things we say of this work, the work says of politics itself and so the cartoon becomes a vessel into which we can safely transfer our otherwise inarticulable groanings, borne of long disappointment, with politics itself.
‘These are terrible’, you say week after week. And true critics everywhere nod sagely. they understand; they appreciate; they, truly, have been there and done that.
The only proper response to these drawings is to nod and observe that indeed, Rich and Marks have done it again.
You’re almost as bad as I sometimes am, with all that bollocks about meta-mediocrity. (Work on it, and you too can reach my level of pseudo-intellectuality.)
♫♪♫♪ I don’t like Budget Days ♫♪♫♪
Nice one.
I am glad that someone’s awake.
I dont like taxes
So use one of your tax deductible limos, that way you don’t have to listen to “I had that Bonio in the back the other week – what a c*nt he is, and no mistake”
Oh sorry, re-read “taxes”
Anyone for free eye tests?
You should’ve gone to Specsavers.
We’re all mouth, – judge us by our words.
Innit!
Make poverty history.
make history poverty
Make poverty geography.
Isn’t poverty economics?
Make poverty sociology – and then scrap the subject.
Colin Firth and Madonna?!
Have they exchanged bodily fluids? Or accountants?
i dont remember voting for this?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/19/david-cameron-sell-off-roads#start-of-comments
Well, Gordon already flogged all the family silver……
Yes
Any discussion of any decision ever by Gideon is automatically declared finished when some one invokes Mcruins name.
I know thems the rules but it does seem like an awfully handy get out of jail free card to hand out so freely to the guy in charge the public purse. Some kind of rational discussion / debate on the rights and wrongs of road privatisation might possibly be a good idea (although i guess unlikely to happen on here)
’twas merely an observation.
I agree with you – I’m mightily alarmed by this revelation, but I’ll have to leave you to push the discussion. (Have to go and earn a crust now so that Gideon has more dosh to piss away.)
Road privatisation? By permission of whom? I think you will find the owners of the said roads are not the government.
Yeah showbiz …. kick off the discussion instead of playing the “won’t get that on ‘ere” card and slagging off the resident posters.
Yes but this is the family “Tarmac”
I don’t remember voting for a party that promised us it would bankrupt the British economy.
Can it be bankrupted twice? (Err yes, silly question).
Today Mathew I’m going to be Transport Minister.
Sounded more like PFI on the radio this morning.
Sounds like more opportunities for croney capitalism and corruption.
That too, I was going to rant about that aspect too, but couldnt be bothered.
What about a tax on Tuscan second homes, Georgie?
How about no tax on any private property? The parasite class ste-al enough alre-ady.
*BREAKING NEWS*
A new charter for the BBC is to be announced:
Clause 1 will be that the above mentioned BBC will at all times act as opposition to the Conservative party, their adherents and any associate bodies.
All Conservative policy, without exception shall be shown in a negative light and, with the use of Marxist socialist waffle shall be shown to be wrong and dangerous to the unrich people of the United Kingdom.
How is this new …?
It changes the topic from the hypocricy of people like Geldorf. That’s what people often do when they don’t Ooooooh look over there – a man with two faces.
Vehicle licence taxes and fuel taxes do not go just towards roads they go into central government funds, so why should all of the TV licence tax go to the BBC? The start of clipping the Marxist BBC’s wings is to take the licence tax into central funding and only give the BBC a portion of it. This is then reduced annually of course until the elite darlings of the British Backside Corp join the real world where budgetary control is considered of some importance. Only then will they understand how politicians from all sides have, and still are, wrecking this country. The BBC is a financial and political dinosaur whose extinction event is overdue.
CAMERON : We understand people are struggling to make ends meet and we fully understand that every penny counts !
Thats why i intend To Butt Fuck every last one of you low life poor people and get your sorry arses off the roads , By selling them off to some of my richest friends so we rich people can keep delays down to a minimum
Peasants !
I did know that.
Piers Morgan and a tramp?
It would not surprise me if Bono has done the same.
I’ve just dropped my guts all over teddy
It was the right thing to do.
So this morning I hear that the government want to get private companies to invest in roads, and they get a slice of road tax.
Sounds like PFI to me.
People have been able to buy expensive properties and avoid
paying stamp duty quite legally now for years.
If the Socialists and Osborne felt strongly about this they could have done more before now.
In the grand scheme of things the money involved will be what Dave calls a ‘pin prick’.
It will not lead to improved services higher employment or reduced taxation for the majority of people who pay daily for the political jamboree we have.
This is all an irelevance and distraction from the real issues.
shhh, dont mention the Islamic terrorism in France
No he’s not a terrorist
he’s a “Scooter enthusiast” with a gun
who also shot dead two French soldiers last week !
Used to be “plumber” I used to laugh at how much effort aljabeebya would go to in order to not have to use the words Islamist terrorist.
I’ll bet you 50¢ it was just a nutter.
Er, A “nutter” who targets jewish school-children and French soldiers, and then has an escape plan.
Most rock stars blab socialist doctrine because their fans are mainly low intellect consuming zombies, who have little idea of the extent that record companies manipulate their auditory sensibilites by pumping endless money into getting trashy music played on radio stations. I would mind less if Geldof could actually sing, though nobody doubts his spotless track record in the exposition White Rap. Only he could have improved the sales of Focus stores in Northern Ireland (or should that be Fock-Us).
Remember for all his working class hero guff, John Lennon voted Tory. It is also of note that he wrote his “sugar coated” ode to marxism “Imagine” shortly before he went into tax exile in the United States. Thats the real reason he left the UK.
Always nice to start the day by looking at work from people less fortunate than yourself !
this mornings offering of Tom Hanks and Iggy Pop , although i haven’t a fucking clue what it’s about
I’m sure the more intellectual of you will be able to explain it ????
Thats not iggy pop, he’s wearing a shirt.
Isnt Iggy Pop that bloke who advertises Car Insurance ?
I Don’t Like Mondays.
p.s. bearing in mind ‘Give us the fucking money’ is a Geldof quote, the cartoon is witty and to the point.
Credit where credit is due; a good effort this week by Rich & Mark.
Shhh, we don’t tell tit and tat they have produced a decent cartoon, think of the future, what would we complain about?.
yesterday listening to lBC I think, said its a wheeze carried out by the arseholes in the British Buggery Club
Don’t be taken in Guido. The reason Osborne said he would tighten up on this rich man’s tax avoidance scam is to launch chaff to deflect away from the fact that he is abolishing the 50p tax. Osborne like all chancellors before is a devious twat.
The 50p tax rate doesn’t raise any additional revenue. It was pure class envy by the Marxist mong, Brown.
You remember Brown, don’t you? The Marxist mong who DOUBLED income tax for the lowest-paid workers. You remember him?
AlBBC view.
Spending money you earned BAD
Bureaucrats spending money you earned GOOD (often to harm the Earner)!
Actually it only raises half of what it was intended to – meaning it’s the rest of us that has to find the shortfall.
There you are Gordon – there’s your foot…take aim…fire
Pope Gregory VII and Thomas Cranmer.
Meanwhile nimble little manoeuvre by the Israeli Government spokesman
on Humphreys this morning engineering a massive time delay on interview.
Completely wrong footed the Arabist who had to listen to his opponent
actually talk without interruption. Haha bloody ha.
At the second Gulf Intelligence Food Security Forum held on March 16 in the United Arab Emirates, self-proclaimed global citizen “sir” Bob Geldof told his audience in so many words they should stop having children or nature would do it for them.
Ruch an Mark are using old jokes.
Get your tents off my f***ing lawn!