Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View
How Mervyn King Lost Bank Battle War | WSJ
BBC Corporation Tax Horror Story | IEA
Sally Bercow Judgement in Full | Mr Justice Tugendhat
Commies Blame Capitalism For Terror Attack | The Commentator
Lord Black v Press Regulation | Guardian
Osborne’s Complacency | FT
DWP’s Welfare Failings | Isabel Hardman
Get Used to Coalitions | David Aaronovitch
Woolwich a Showcase in the Banality of Evil | Fraser Nelson
The Enemy Within | Max Hastings
Muslim Led Military-Style Free School Needed | Toby Young
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Bill Quango MP says:
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Our flagship proposal going into the 2015 General Election is to legalise gay marriage.
Nothing else matters.
Sorry fella, cartoon is about Millionaireband, put yer specs on.
Is it David
The question is, how did he become a millionaire on just an MP’s salary, which incidentally, is paid for out of public money.
Read “A” on the cartoon if it is correct
So, was daddy Miliband in business by any chance?
Sorry that should be B, so where did his daddy get the money, I thought he was supposed to have fled the advance of the Nazis
No he had a job before politics, unlike Osborne.
The answer is none of these – after earning 100kpa for 10 years which is just spending/saving money, as his home, transport, food, drinks, entertainment, holiday travel, duckpond etc. are all supplied to an MP FOC, either from the taxpayer, or as freebees to influence his decisions.
Yes, he has that ‘common’ touch – my life is a lot like that!
Another Liebor troll strikes again. Must have stayed up all night
Shoot them
Indeed we are all poofs now in the Conservative led coalition.
Pardon?
I always believed the Limp Dims were the cross gender set.
I think they are every where, cons, liebore, and the limp ones, still as far as I am concerned, as long as they keep to themselves and do not interfere anywhere else let them be, but I get fed up off those newly outed, going on about how they are homosexual, remember when Stephen Fry was outed. One of the greatest conquerors of the ancient world was either way, did not stop him being a great general
My father, Adolphe, taught my stabbed brother David and I that some are more equal than others.
How is it that Ed was wrong to stand against Dave, but Dave wasn’t wrong to stand against Ed? Oh, I know, Ed won.
He wasn’t wrong to stand against David, but perhaps the acrimony had more to do with that minor detail of union vote rigging.
You ignorant plebs – everybody knows that there are no lefty millionaires.
We are intensely relaxed about people becoming filthy rich.
…particularly when the taxpayer is footing the bill.
Surely option ‘A’ should be ‘Tax-free inheritance’.
Sheltered?
What’s the cat’s name?
But he is a millionaire for the right reasons.
And he cares about the poor, he really does.
Incidentally, this is a rare event indeed – an R&M cartoon that displays a trace of wit.
I too would care about the poor if I was a seminal reason for making them so.
The difference being that I would like to think that I would try and help them whereas Ed is simply looking for a vote.
Rubbermouth ed and his comrades don’t care about the poor, they only care about the IDEA of the poor.
You are not alleging he has had an idea? Are you?
I suppose as much as anyone who has been to Oxbridge, Cat
Ed not only cares about the poor he also cares about
ClimaxClimate Change. That’s why he was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, so he could screw energy supply in the UK and make more poor people through higher bills!Ed’s cunning plan is ‘more poor people’ = ‘more NuLabour votes’.
Then when old poor people start dying from the cold he’ll blame Thatcher!
See, he’s smart. He also knows most old people will vote against NuLabour because they can remember what the country was like before NuLabour started their population replacement plan.
So he’ll also blame the rich old people for:
- being rich
- voting against NuLabour
- not dying!
Then let him give some of his property portfolio to the young unemployed who need homes.
Or would he prefer that someone else should subsidise that? Like hardworking middle class Tory families. They know how to manage their finances so they’ll have a bit to spare for those that don’t.
Smogs millionaires do not not usually do that unless theey have a tax rebate for doing it
…an R&M cartoon that displays a trace of wit.
Oh dear! I had better go back and look at it again more closely.
I wouldnt be here today as a multi-millionaire if it wasnt for my comprehensive education
My fellow Venezuelans. Thank you for voting for me again in your billions. Once again, we had a 4000% turnout, and I have won another 6 year term. Now I will release all your relatives as promised.
He will shoot them
Not if I get them first.
Has Mr Cameron congratulated him?
He really likes applauding political shysters. He thinks nothing of giving a standing ovation to people like Phoney Tony B£iar. With judgement like that we are all doomed.
Hu’s going to pay for the bullets?
Everybody given the choice its a no brainer…..just like an EU in/out referendum!
Everybody wants it except the minority that are themselves better off “in” another no brainer…
Its simple Dave, Stage an “in/out” referendum or, lose next general election…
Yet another no brainer..
Hallelujah! Brother Hugo has won! A bucket of ryse and peà to celebrate as me wind me body in a bogle bogle!
Shoot her
No,too quick. Why not 30 years in the Gulag.
Not enough rice!
Probably she was into ensuring vote rigging by the loonly left was not disclosed.
54% to 45% means ONLY 1% spoilt papers?
Dear constituents,
I am pleased to announce free and fair elections in Venezuela. I am out here fact finding. I shall return to you, my Blackburn brothers and sisters in a week or so. Our imperialist smashing and god fearing project has gone global. Next stop Cuba.
Cheers, George
You must be heartbroken over the extradition of your buddy Abu Hamza.
He was stitched up. As you know.
They sent a seriously ill brother to the biggest terror state in the world! We in Venezuela are plotting the end of you crusaders. Blackburn was just the start.
“He was stitched up. Ass, you know?“ [Corrected]
I had heard that sometimes happens in the USA!
… Still, there’s no accounting for taste.
Good Morning Fellow Gayers Everywhere
I am delighted to announce that the FTSE is tanking rather nicely ahead of my half baked speech to Conference.
I shall not be mentioning the cost to the taxpayer of £40million wasted as a result of Ministerial incompetence over the rail franchise.
Thank you so much.
BBC Radio 5 is pushing its pro-Labour agenda yet again. Where is the supposed neutral approach from a national broadcaster? Certainly not on BBC Radio 5. Nicky Campbell (insert swear words)!
It’s not just evil BBC kiddy fiddlers and knob merchants that should be investigated. Leveson, take note.
Should the Beeb be the mouthpiece of of the Con. party? It’s strange but my old man used say that about the Beeb (being liebore biased ) and only watched ITV,his brother only watched the Beeb they were opposite sides of the political spectrum
Campbell has posters of Red Ed in his bedroom.
So he can polish his own knob?
Toady programme at it as usual. Fancy sending a dyed in the wool Marxist like Jimmy the Red Naughty to Birmingham for the Conservative forum?
At least they know he is the enemy.
The Tories should say nothing to the BBC!
Then tell all the other news channels and newspapers that they can’t talk to any of the BBC because of all the investigations they know the police are going to have to start into BBC fiddling, and they can’t be sure which of the BBC are implicated:
- kiddies abused,
- tax evasion,
- party political bias,
- EU political bias (with bribery),
- wasting public money,
- climate scam corruption,
- generally naff ‘comedy’,
- etc
Radio 5 Labour will be re-doubling their efforts this week in order to counter any positive effect which the Conservative Conference might have on the party’s image.
It started with the Steven Nolan show paper review last night, where the presenter actually joined in with the Marxist bishop they regularly have on, even shouting at a caller who dared to question (both of) their relentless criticism of the government.
The impartial BBC. Unbelievable. They do it because they know no-one has the balls to stop them.
Certainly not me, my continued employment as Chairman is my Number One Priority. Everything else is of a secondary nature, and as for principles – well, they went straight out of the window the moment I was appointed (not that my predecessor had any either).
I stopped listening to Stephen Nolan a while ago. The Bishop is particularly awful, he never has an original comment to make just stock in trade lefty/ po faced clergy soundbites. He is particularly uncharitable in his remarks for a man of the cloth as well.
We appear to have a number of Labour trolls here this morning. Presumably they have had their benefits cut and are having a last lashing out.
Cat will you stop using gayer language (polari) to troll to walk about (looking for trade)
Who are you calling cant, cant?
Meeeow
I,m over 65 so my benefits are as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. Add them to my state and occupational pensions and I’m only a couple of thou short of the average yearly wage.
Careful Guido somebody might be asking how much you are worth, how much you earn and how much the wife earns and whether your income from the Daily Star is paid gross. Personally, before you attack dogs start, I could not give a toss how much you earn as far as I am concerned that’s up to you and HMRC. Everyone has a history and there will be people that remember you from school or when you were at Hull (explain to your fans where that is) be careful out there.
Ignoratio elenchi?
ig·no·ra·ti·o e·len·chi
[ig-nuh-rey-shee-oh i-leng-kahy, -kee] Show IPA
noun Logic .
the fallacy of offering proof irrelevant to the proposition in question.
Just thought I would post a translation for thos as ignorant of Latin as myself
Yeah but “Guido” isn’t standing for election and criticising his opponents for being millionaires and glossing over the fact that he is a millionaire as well that’s the difference…Miliband is a total and utter hypocrite…..ultimately that is what will screw him with the electorate ! Not being straight on his financial position whilst attacking Cameron for being “posh”(so is Miliband)and being a millionaire(so is Miliband)
True most of the front benches are millionaires or multimillionaires or carryon as if they are. If they aren’t when they come into government (talking about both major parties) they seem to end up as millionaires when they leave.
Exactly.
Guido is ahead.
Some paid to Eire some to France. Simps
Does Dirty Des pay well, being a Red Sea Pedestrian and all that.
No wonder his brother hates him
steals his job , and now trying to steal his £40,000 bonus !
I think Labour have shot themselves in the foot with this campaign about the Cabinet’s personal wealth, it now gives the media carte blanche to go into the personal finances of the Shadow Cabinet and show what hypocrites they are. I think a cartoon should be created with all the Labour millionaires and also the Union bosses. Well Done Guido.
Let me deal with it and I can assure they won’t be shot in the feet.
God no, not the feet. That would probably (Oxford PPE) double the number of bullets required!
Dont worry; come the next general election, they will be publishing their tax returns.
But unfortunatley this will not stop them putting property and income through their wives and family.
So as it happens, we will find that none of them are millionaires. not even Osborne.
I thought all my dealings with the Inland Revenue were subject to confidentiality .
If anyone looks at my records on line when they have no reason to do so it is all logged .
That is what I was told anyway .
No problem up here. Most people don’t know anything about tax as they do not pay it.
It would be hilarious if a mansion tax was to be brought in on properties over £1 million.
What would Ed do when it came to the vote in House of Commons, knowing it would hit him personally. LOL
If that’s Ed how come the straight mouth?
As this cartoon is actually quite witty and poignant, can we assume that Rich & Mark are away on holiday and someone else is standing in (albeit abetted by a five year old with crayons)?
Wee Dougie Alexander used by Miliband as a backbone.
Do you mean ‘spine’ or ‘emergency Justine stand-in’?
(We have recently found it necessary to ask all our on-air ‘talent’ to be more specific about such usage.)