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.”
Harold Macmillan says:
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
A new low for the “cartoon”, I think.
Looks more like P@ul Ryan (on the right, I mean)
Assad
Elouise, Elouise !
Fair cop!
Perhaps the cartoonist was listening to Bring Back Communism trying desperately to support Obama and to diss Paul Ryan while trying to come up with a cartoon after a heavy weekend?
Dumbing down is now rife on all media.
Have a heart. At least ten seconds of thought went into this cartoon.
Absolutely. Anyway, doesn’t Boris know Sebastian likes rolling around getting hot and sweaty on a mat with William Hague?
Seb Ryan? (At least that doesn’t get m*dd*d, I suppose.)
William told me that they Tug each other around the mat
and if one is lucky , one knocks one out !
toodle pip !
Derserves a big crap.
Go Team Boris! Go Boris’ little swimmers!
Who wants egg on their face?
Double entendre, very good.
So many to chose from….
Approximately as funny as death
Death makes me laugh. And so did this cartoon
This is what we call real socialist humour, very funny indeed
Boris trying to wrest the gold medal from Red Ken for London Mayor fathering children competition. All very sad really.
King Edward VII had the same gross body as Boris but much better looking mistresses.
As to the cartoon pfft…as to the boris v camaroon thing. Well, at least boris knows he’s a buffoon.
Boris was definitely shaking it to the right last night.
last night’s show was the worst episode of Glee I have ever seen!
Oh! so just as they tried to kick UKIP in the balls, the Camorons LibLabCons are now kicking Boris in the balls, Camoron is finished get over it and get your removal vans on order for 2015.
Prepare for Eddie the Beagle.
He’s not all he’s puffed up to be. Cough
… which gets me thinking as to which dog closely resembles the last few PMs.
How about Blair the Poodle, Brown the Pit Bull (Shih Tzu was too obvious) and Cameron the Old English Sheepdog?
Not much English about Cameron. He’s more like a Skye terrier.
I would like to wish Team GB the very best of luck in the 2016 Olympics.
By then I will be Leader of The Opposition.
Good Morning.
You hope.
By then you will back fronting documentaries for the BBC and appearing on panel games
ARE A DISGRACE TO YOUR NOBLE FAMILY NAME!
Go NOW!
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interesting that Dave has stated that Boris is not the only big hitter in town… but maybe he meant big swimmer or even swinger.
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good that Boris travels well across cultures…..does the post of President of Europe await him. hahaha.
Spice Oeufs ?
I think Boris likes Picaninny Spice best of all.
It’s her watermelon smile wot does it for me every time…
In order to comply with the push to celebrate our multicultural heritage the Spice Girls have been required to change their names to Cardamom, Cumin, Fenugreek, Turmeric and Coriander.
no weed?
(musn’t use the ‘C’ word)
Curry?
Funny as woodworm in a cripple’s crutch.
So pretty hilarious then?
I’m legless with laughter.
Or even a fire in an orphanage ! what !
The Cabinet is unanimously backing the PCS Union in its long running dispute with JCP contact centres over staffing,conditions and pay.
Nenbers of the Cabonet will stand shoulder to shoulder with our comrades in todays strike.
Well we have to get votes by any means possible.
How did Assad get a gun through security ?
G4S = Guns for Shooters
Today I am mostly trying to get the franchise to sell choc-ices at Copacabana, 2016.
will the girls go Brazillian?
After the Olympics we shall be mainly involved in Pres.Obama’s re-election campaign and running down Britain…thank you
Look here,
It’s my part-time job to talk down the UK economy.
The sell off in the FTSE has started so well this morning.
We will have zero growth until 2015 chaps.
I started it! – I’m the genius behind it all – you’re just following – so don’t try to get the credit – geddit?
There’s no money left Thanks Gordon.
Oh come on. You’re not even trying any more.
Get a proper political cartoonist FFS, or better still just post a picture of some belly button fluff every Monday. It would be more funny and informative.
Last night they teased us with Bowie pictures and music, and then gave us Annie Lennox. Why? What’s Dracula got to do with anything?
At 6.45 this morning I read on the BBC news homepage that many employers are overstaffed and are expected to lay a lot more people off soon if the economy doesn’t pick up. Apparently they have been keeping the staff on in expectation that they might need them and didn’t want to loose the skill base, but hope has gone.
Just goes to show that:-
1. For all of our governments harping on about encouraging growth and the economy they are becoming unbelievable even amongst the corporate world.
2. Their policies have failed.
Still I am sure Europe, Labour, the unemployed, the disabled and the civil service mandarins will get the blame.
Oh and in the meantime, more unemployed means more welfare, and more strain on the nhs through depression and ill health, more divorces and loneliness, and sadly more crime. But hey ho our reduced police force will cope. So there will be more fear in communities.
And all because the Tories got it wrong.
Epitaph read:
“Meant well, forgot some basic history lessons, damaged the social fabric of our nation. Dave and his cronies still get his future honours for his “success” though so all is ok.”
Mind you at least Dave is on the moderate wing of the dark extremism.
Dave, turn on the flipping light switch mate. You can say it, “I got it wrong, we have failed, our policies are doing more harm than good.”
“Still I am sure Europe, Labour, the unemployed, the disabled and the civil service mandarins will get the blame”.
Yes it is just pure coincidence that growth is stalling in Europe, the USA, Japan, China and every major country as well. Clearly this is also the fault of Cameron.
Growth is stalling in Europe for precisely the same reson – Austerity.
Growth is stalling in the USA as their export markets have dried up.
Growth is stalling in China beacuse of the natural cycle and recent high peaks.
Japan and other countries I dont know.
Cameron and teh Tories made a jusgemental decision on how to tackle the problems facing this nation. The results speak for themselves.
Dont get me wrong UKIP, I am sure that they meant well, and I am sure that they might be a bit baffled as to why things have not worked as expected. But it really is rather simple as i have explained many times.
There are plenty of things that could be done to stimulate growth innovation and jobs in this Island of ours, though I do accept that some of them are impossible due to the EU regulations, and in that respect I do sympathise with you.
But you simply cannot turn a nation on its head, changing everything at once, and expect positive results, especially in a cautious nation like Britain.
Dont get me wrong I would have loved it if Dave could have turned our nation around, for change is necessary, but our government has forgotten some basic lessons from history (maginalising minorities has never been a good idea), the importance of caution and a seeming lack of understanding of the law of unintended consequences.
Also UKIP, our government is regularly on telly blaming others. Do you think that they would have credited others if their policies had worked?
Nice technique. The sympathetic velvet glove around the damning iron fist. Labour must be schooling their trolls in Goebbels.
I am an ex tory party member remember. Not sure if I ever have consiously voted labour.
Quite right. We should simply borrow more money and hand it out to public sector workers who will stimulate the economy by bidding up house pr*ices. Just like they did from 1997 – 2008. This period represented a real, booming economy.
I simply cannot see anything wrong with this strategy. The only problem occurred in 2007/8 because the banks lent too much money to folk who could never afford to pay it all back so if we simply print money and hand it to public sector workers then the banks will eventually get paid back (because we can print infinite amounts of money) and house pr*ices will remain astronomically unaffordable and all will be well with the economy again.
No you touch hearts to revitalise a nation, it really is as simple as that.
‘Touch hearts?’
Utter fucking bollocks.
No it does work, touch a mans heart and he will follow it
Then we should be ‘touching the voter’s hearts’ by explaining 24-7 how Labour arse-fucked the economy and so, as a result, we need to make these ‘cuts’. With a heavy heart you understand.
If you can learn the skill of touching peoples heart then go for it – I am confident that you will find it very successful. There was lots of it at the olympics.
‘Touching hearts’ = ‘Triumph of the Will’ style propaganda then.
No jgm2 it means exactly what it says. Gentle, inspiration. Can achieve wonders.
Thnk of it (a bit) like the olympics “inspiring a generation”.
It could be meaningless pr or it really could make a difference.
I know form first hand experience how beautifully effective it can be.
Prefer it if the government stopped touching my wallet.
jgm2 is stealing my ideas. But this was only part of my grand strategy to make all Englishmen grass eaters, fill the country with Moslem immigrants, and bring the country to its economic knees so that Labour would remain in power for ever and ever and ever.
Stewart laughs with an evil Cackle
Go and join the other deluded individuals at LabourList.
You’ll be less lonley there.
Lonely? Wrote a book about that. Even sold a few copies.
Listening to the other mans point of view is rarely time wasted. Without such all encomasing thought terrible mistakes can be made.
Besides we both want the same thing, a revitalised Britain, I am just conscious of how current policies are (hopefully unintentionally) breaking Britain, not working, and could easily lead to rise of extremism, as has happened before in European history.
If Guido wants me to leave he just needs to ask.
At least I stood up to say “hold on you might be doing harm.” Better than keeping stum and simply watching it happen.
If you think Dave or anyone can replenish a treasury and turn an economy around in the space of two years after it has been repeatedly pillaged for 13 years you are a bigger fucking moron than your comment suggests.
Nice to see that personal insults rule the day.
I have covered this before. He might have done it over 15 years, but what he has done in 2 years has been too much to fast for the social fabric of this nation, one of the most cautious and conservative (small c) on this planet.
Gee we will be having another tory MP inciting “revenge” soon – back to the stoneage boys. whatever happened to an evolved nation?
We don’t have 15 years. We have five years at most before the same imbeciles get elected and have another go at creating a booming economy through the medium of borrowed and squandered cash.
It may suprise you bt I do sympathise with the olitical time constraints.
I just think that it would have been better to implement change at a rate society coudl easily cope with, which would have, I would have thought, increased reelection chances substantially.
I can only assume that they were counting on a natural economic rebound to make it all work.
It might have increased reelection chances although I doubt it since the bedwetters would be chirping form the side-lines about how the ‘recovery’ wasn’t happening quickly enough no matter how much money the T*ries printed and squandered in an attempt to keep the Maximum Imbecile’s Potemkin economy on the road.
But even if they did get re-elected as a result of borrowing and squandering ‘enough’ then that still wouldn’t address the fucking problem. Which is that we are living waaaaaaay beyond our means. We need to cut now. And we need to cut hard and the T*ries need to be more forcefuil about explaining it to the electorate.
There is no money left. Labour squandered it all trying to buy the 2010 (and the 2005) election.
At a governmental/banking level, money is simply something that gets generated on computer screens.
Now dont get me wrong the last thing you want is hyperinflation or severe currency issues or plunging asset prices etc, but it is no more of a straighjacket that you make it at that economic level.
Global leaders are finding that the vurrent economic construct is failing them, so perhaps they need to give serious consideration to thinking outside the box, and redefining the construct to deal with our chnging times.
That would work.
Where I have my own reservations is human nature, for greed, egos etc would interfere and that is when this could easily go askew.
Which is why wise leaders are required.
‘redefining the construct to deal with our chnging times.
That would work.’
No it wouldn’t.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. We know that living within our means will work. There is no need to ‘redefine the construct’ whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean.
Live within our means.
It’s a simple message. So simple that I think even Labour voters could be made to understand it.
jmg2
So should we abolish fractional reserve banking?
Think (hard) about it.
Funny for a claimed Tory you don’t half sound like Owen Jones ? but then you wouldn’t consciously know that if the conditioning was right would you !
Mind I actually thought the false flag ‘I’m a Tory ‘ then going on to spout Labour tag lines was a bit old school but nice to see you still trying it !
Aye. ‘Too far too fast’.
Too slow, too shallow more like.
They should have cut hard on Day One. It would be over with by now and the benefits would be showing already. Instead of which it is death by a thousand cuts.
It’s like folk who are trying to sell their house but, obviously, since their house is so special then it really should sell for the maximum pr*ice ever achieved for a similar house plus a little bit. 200K (say). Then, when the economy has turned they wonder why the can’t sell it. So they eventually, reluctantly, knock a couple of thousand quid off. But it still doesn’t sell. And so on and so on. Three years later they still haven’t sold. ‘How could this be possible?’, they ask themselves. ‘My house is the most special house ever and one just like it sold five years ago for 200K but I can’t sell mine now for 150K.’
Because, you thick c*unts, your house was never worth200K.
So it is with the economy. We could never afford the one million extra bedwetters, box-tickers and bastards hired by the Maximum Imbecile and so the sooner we face reality and fire the c*unts the sooner we can get back to a situation we can afford.
I was a tory paty member. I resigned when the tories rioted at a YC conference 20 odd years ago now (it was reported as a riot on telly) since then I have floated, settling on Lib Dems. Though as Cleggs office will tell you I give them earache as well.
I sent my resignation to Maggis Thatcher in disgust at the behaviour of the YCs, I got a reply. And to think some of those rioters could be in our government today.
STewart – you relly have lost the plot – you seem to be living in an economic bubble of your own self impotence – while you preach to all and sundry of what you think is the right line to follow. Some advice – Please try to think outside of the box such that all will be healed in the tribalism of rowing with one party or the other. They’re only there to sway the masses into on or the other controlling them -like herded scared little sheep. That’s what governments do these days they spin. And then people like you Stewart – sell on their spinning.
You’ve been had Stewart. You are just another spinning monkey.
It has got to be Boris.
In the cartoon (even R&M can’t balls that one up.)
In real life.
And in no 10. The only man who can do it, on either side.
Do what exactly ?
What ever the it that is desired of him.
Boris has what it takes, if you know what I mean. (Swoon)
Dance like the oldest swinger in town.
Oh dear.
Who said the Olympics never makes any money ?
So Bozo wheres my 3 million quids bonus then
I recognise Chris Tarrent – who’s the other one?
nice rack
O/T but did anyone spot Militwit’s solecism in the Sunday Telegraph when he wrote about the Olympic legacy. He referred to Ennis, Rutherford and Mo. I think he meant Ennis, Rutherford and Farah. If he couldn’t remember the bloke’s name he should have looked at the dozens of pictures in the media with “Mo” crossing the winning line with a big label pinned to the front of his shirt with the word”FARAH” written on it.
Apart from that the article was a load of twaddle with the background noises of politicians jumping on to a bandwagon.
The MSM always has a large pool of political freight-hoppers on tap.
Novices at weblog. How could i ensure nobody safeguards my best background images and even text message?