A Christmas Cameron

A seasonal one to end the year. Scrooge Cameron is haunted by the ghosts of Jacob Brown, Christmas Boom and Christmas Bust, while Christmas Yet To Be hovvers menacingly over the crippled form of Tiny Economy. The sad reality is Scrooge saw the error of his ways, Cameron never will.

The Leadership Debacle

Ready.. Steady.. And they're not really bothered actually

Stormont Crisis? What Crisis?

Santa Brown

Merry Christmas

Free Market Economics 101

It's a simple model - the government takes our money and gives it to the fat cat bankers. The so-called supreme court inexplicably reverses a decision on bank charges (or perhaps it's not to hard to explain). The law then used the police to squash peaceful protest and everyone in the loops is happy, but as for the rest of us well..

Nero Brown

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/07/european-elections-manchester-liverpool

Whatever poor old Gordon does seems to be wrong and with Murdoch and his cronies outrageously smearing him at every turn it's no wonder Cameron and his cronies are looking so smug. All I'll say is Nu Labour are truly terrible, but an awful lot of people who have never experienced a Tory government in slash and burn mode have a very rude awakening coming.

Time for a Little Fiscal Stimulation

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I'm a Politician in the Westminster Jungle Get Me Out of Here!

This week's BBC editorial cartoon: The Brown Bounce and the Cameron Crunch

Gordon 'Saves' the World

The European "Union"

EDF Buy Out of British Energy: Yet More Free Market Folly

I have to say in these days of supposed concerns over the security of energy supply I find it incredible that no one should question the wisdom of selling a major essential service provider in effect to a foreign power i.e. the sale of British Energy to EDF - the nationalised French power organisation. Even as an avid Francophile I have to say it makes me a little uncomfortable to think of the leverage that this could give the French government when our two nations may have our occasional ideological differences. The thing I find most amazing about all of this is the British as a nation have so willingly been spoonfed and then swallowed the idea that free market market economics are the universal elixir that there should be no mention whatever voicing these concerns in the UK Press across their whole spectrum from the right to ultra right.

Conference Season Reveals Voters’ “Option”..

Let’s face it - whichever party we get in power they will put the fat cats, who caused the economic crisis and who pull their strings, before the people and the country.

"What I did in my summer hoildays" - Final Frame

“What I did on my summer holidays!” - BBC Poltics Show tv clip

My cartoons and John Culshaw’s impression of GB..

As you sew, so shall you reap

So the brave souls who want rid of Gordon Brown are finally crawling out from under their rocks. In the good old days, when the Labour Party was still a slightly left of centre party, they may not have had the greatest record in national elections, but they did at least they have loyalty and belief in what they stood for, and most crucially they gave people like me representation. New Labour and it's strident march to the right removed all of that as they adopted 'as the wind blows' policies. Now Gordon Brown, as one of the leading proud architects of New Labour, is suffering the side effects of creating a party with no ideals, nor aims, apart from amoral personal survival. So he now faces the the army of cockroaches creeping out of the crumbling cracks of the New Labour movement, intent on devouring themselves and the rest of the amoral shower who stole my party. New Labour disenfranchised me and millions of others when they simply continued the slash and burn polcies of the previous Tory government. For me the creation of the loathesome NICE (the government's manditory euthanasia orgnisation) sums up all the evils that we have all simply taken in our stride as far right politics become the norm for us all.

Let Them Eat Caviar

The staggering hypocrisy of the G8 leaders supposedly discussing global poverty and food shortages, while sitting down to eat 16 course meals of the most expensive and scarce foodstuffs. No wonder so many of us have lost all faith in our politicians. To emphasize the point I used four endangered species as the main courses (which upset my other half so much she couldn't look at it). I originally wanted to put 'let them eat McDonald's', to make the point that the globalisation agenda favoured by the more right wing nations at the table was indeed part of the problem, but unfortunately this was judged as too litigious. Personally I find it very worrying we can say almost anything we like (as cartoonists) about our elected political representatives who we have at least some power over, but we cannot make even the mildest of criticisms of the multinationals who we have absolutely no power over what so ever.

It's Another Fine Mess They've Gotten Us Into!

Gordon Brown and the Chancellor Alistair Darling seem to lurch from one disaster to the next/ leaving a trail of political mayhem, which translates into bad news for the rest of us, behind them. The really worrying thing about all of this is when we look to the alternative! No wonder so many of us don't see a reason to vote!

I SAY I SAY I SAY!

It would seem to some that New Labour really don't want to win the next election. If they do have any aspirations of victory why would they immediately announce another raft of privatisations (this time of the most sacred left wing cows), on the back of local election results that to anyone else would prove the true Labour core vote had finally had enough of New Labour's overtly right wing agenda and Toryising of policy?