If you like your politics without substance or policies then Wavy Davy Cameron is for you. And if the Crewe and Nantwich by-election is anything to go by you’ll have a lot of company, as so many people voted for the party with no policies. That’s UK politics for you.
The unfathomable despotic regime in Burma continues to allow its people to suffer and die while simply paying lip service and patting heads on the state controlled media. All this as the regime’s closest ally suffers unimaginable death and devastation from the massive Sichuan earthquake. But whereas the Chinese military appear to be doing all they can the Burmese junta appear to have adopted a ‘let them eat cake’ attitude for the 21st Century and their people continue to die and unless attitudes change dramatically things can only get worse. The text element of this cartoon my understandibly confuse people not familiar with Cockney rhyming slang where ‘china’ is shorthand for friend i.e. china plate - mate.
The polls continue to nose-dive for New Labour and Gordon Brown. The much vaunted ‘re-launch’ of the party provided me with the idea to use the iconic image of the first US astronauts from the classic 80s film ‘The Right Stuff’. My title ‘The Brown Stuff’ of course has the obvious duality in meaning, because they really are in messy stuff right now and surely the only way is up? They really need to get their act together to win back their core vote, who have obviously finally had enough of their brand of right wing politics with only meaningless platitudes offered as crumbs to their left-leaning core support. Whether they can turn this state of affairs around I’m not sure they even know how or where to begin.
Another bad week for Gordon. New Labour routed at the polls and rumours rife of a leadership challenge. New Labour having much more in common with the Conservative Party than old Labour, they are almost certain to stick the knife in the PM’s back if fortunes do not turn around quickly.
It’s that time again.. Hobson’s Choice politics - when you can get any political party to represent you that you would like.. As long as it’s right wing.
Ken, Boris and Brian were all on the show this week, bickering away as though that is what people wanted to hear from the leading candidates for Mayor of London. But while it was very entertaining I’m not sure that’s what people were really looking to them to do. As a footnote: I was a bit disturbed to see that them turn up in the same colour suits as I’d painted them in - even though I completed the piece the day before.
The Politics Show has returned after the Easter break and this cartoon hopefully reflects the present economic worries of the nation which continues to carry the fat cats who continue to cream of the profits from banking where rates are lowered for them but raised for the rest of us, and ever greater price hikes from the privatised utilities and food giants - but we’ll keep on paying and they’ll keep on getting richer because that’s the British way.
