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Modus Trollens posted:I genuinely hope they make a statue bigger than Big Ben
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: I like how blatant this is, yes the miners strike and the poll tax are why she's going to heaven, gently caress you poors!
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Apr 18, 2013 08:17
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Fluo posted:Ahahahaha gently caress you daily mail. Honestly, I think a lot of people did exactly that. They probably had popcorn and spent the whole time laughing, though.
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Apr 18, 2013 15:44
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Look at the size of the woman in that Mac cartoon. Now look at the size of the nightie on the bed. Now look at the size of the man.
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Apr 18, 2013 15:52
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Looks like the real Mac is back from his safari hunting trip or whatever he gets up to.
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Jedit posted:No, it's just another lovely Boston Marathon cartoon that has nothing to do with Thatcher. It's a clear and distinct image that evocatively conveys an idea. It's not exactly Steve Bell but as simple 'a bad thing happened' cartoons go I'd say it does everything necessary. That it has nothing to do with Thatcher was exactly my point: Adams has specifically chosen, unlike every other right wing cartoonist, not to glorify Thatcher (at least for one day).
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Guardian: I think it's based on Picasso's Weeping woman:  Independent:  Telegraph:  Express:  No Daily Mail as yet.
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Apr 19, 2013 00:28
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Would but that had been her actual funeral.
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Kegluneq posted:That's the worst Big Ben I've ever seen. And Thatcher looks like she's cringing. Good job! Do you mean to say Big Ben isn't just a pile of pillars with a blue wealth distribution curve at the top?
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Apr 19, 2013 15:38
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Cloud Potato posted:Guardian: That is amazing!  Guardian:  Martin Rowson on the deaths of Margaret Thatcher and Storm Thorgerson. Having mourned the death of Thatcher last week, this week Britain mourned the loss of British artist Storm Thorgerson. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22210378  Telegraph:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22202694 quote:Pupils in England should spend more hours at school each day and have shorter holidays, the Education Secretary Michael Gove has argued. 
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Apr 20, 2013 07:24
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Does anyone actually like Michael Gove? I am pretty sure it's just David Cameron and Gove's mother at this point. It must be really crap to be education secretary if you can't actually enter a place of education without being in fear of someone throwing something at you or punching you. I mean, could you imagine Gove walking across a university campus anywhere in Britain? He would end up in a blopdy heap with a birkenstock poking out of his arse.
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Apr 20, 2013 10:31
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It's really hard to tell if that cartoon is meant to be supportive of Gove or not. I mean he's basically a gurning monster (in the role of the disciplinarian father for some reason), but the child is representing a Union and is therefore evil, so ??? I'm at a complete loss as to how he and Osborne remain in their positions. It's incredibly hard to think of how either could fail more emphatically in their given roles. (Sarcasm! Obviously because Cameron is an idiot desperate not to lose further face.)
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Jesus how I wish the British government was just a sitcom and not for real.Letter to a Fat Man with a Big Beard posted:Dear Santa Bell, Steve Bell is the real Santa Clause, yeah? My mum isn't lying to me again? GuestBob fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Apr 20, 2013 |
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GuestBob posted:Does anyone actually like Michael Gove? I am pretty sure it's just David Cameron and Gove's mother at this point. You're assuming he gives a gently caress though. He gets to do whatever he likes, even if everyone with any knowledge on the subject is shouting that he's wrong and causing terrible damage. He probably sees the hostility as further proof that he's right and taking firm, decisive steps that are absolutely necessary. I think hubris sums it up
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GuestBob posted:Does anyone actually like Michael Gove? I am pretty sure it's just David Cameron and Gove's mother at this point. Isn't Gove considered to be some kind of perfect proto-Tory regularly touted as the next leader of the party? Makes sense because he is horrific in every respect that we expect a Tory to be like.
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Aye, the love him because he's a scheming, vicious, cruel fucker who not only has seen the evidence that he's wrong but has decided that the evidence against him is why he must push forward.
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You see he makes the tough decisions and sticks to his convictions and refuses to be swayed by public opinion. They probably hope he'll rise to power and criminalise the Unions once and for all.
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I kind of hope that the stuff his Spads are doing explodes all over him and the direct accountability instituted after Damien McBride means he has to step down. Hope, not expect.
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Anyone set to profit from the move towards an increasingly privatised education sector would probably think quite highly of him too.
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Talking of education policy, its now to patronize poor families. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22204507 quote:Bright pupils from poor homes who achieve top GCSE scores will receive congratulation letters from ministers, under a plan announced on Thursday.
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Apr 20, 2013 19:11
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Despite everything we have done to gently caress your life up, well done. Here is a letter, join our party so we can hold you up as examples of 'down to earth, working not shirking' young people who believe in our ideology.
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Apr 20, 2013 19:37
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Fluo posted:Talking of education policy, its now to patronize poor families. First 'congrats' letter sent to dead or expelled kid in 10....9.... Bonus points for "you have your whole life ahead of you" in it in some way or form.
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Observer: Chris Riddell on the chancellor's tear-stained week Sunday Telegraph:  Independent on Sunday: 
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What the heck is this doing thrown in there.
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Gun laws are going to kill people? 
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Cloud Potato posted:Independent on Sunday: Suddenly it feels like this is the big Political Cartoons thread.
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I think the Onion's cartoon from last week bears posting here:
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So that IoS cartoon is a parody, right? The whole "gun control laws represented as a gun" thing really confuses the message. Not that it's stopped dozens of US cartoonists.
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I'm pretty sure "Gun laws" here means "lax gun laws" and not gun control.
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It helps if you take it literally- US gun laws are responsible for a ridiculous number of deaths, mainly by virtue of being flimsy to the point of non-existence.
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I think it's meant to be a parody of US cartoons - the ordinary people are sat staring at the news, terrified of all the terrible things and perceived dangers in the world outside... but the real threat to them is tighter regulation of gun ownership. (The big push to bring in tighter gun control after all the recent shootings and massacres was defeated this week.) Basically it's a Kelly, especially if the threat of having stronger gun laws is represented by an actual gun aimed at them. Make it black and white, have Kelly in the corner saying 'guns don't kill people - lawmakers do' and you'd be there
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Crane Fist posted:It helps if you take it literally- US gun laws are responsible for a ridiculous number of deaths, mainly by virtue of being flimsy to the point of non-existence. I think its this, Gun Laws in America at the moment are completely weak. So rather then whats to come (tighter. if America is lucky) its talking about the now, like there is a "top 10 famous US school shooting videos" now. Which is a bad sign of gun control at the moment. The problem is it can be read both ways so it a badly done cartoon if you can confuse it with a tea party type cartoon. As I'm pretty sure 99% of the UK are happy to not have guns going the round, the only types are Free Man of The Land liberation types. Even people in the armed forces that I know are happy there is very tight gun control in the UK. Thing is if you didn't know it was posted in a centre left UK newspaper, it'd come off as a Republican tea party cartoon.  Edit: Generally its poe's law. Fluo fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Apr 21, 2013 |
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Guardian: "The Sunday Times's annual naming of Britain's wealthiest residents coincided with the running of the London Marathon." Telegraph:  Express: 
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Cloud Potato posted:Guardian: Is that Gove leading the pack in the distance? And what's with the red rag thing on the ground?
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Niric posted:Is that Gove leading the pack in the distance? And what's with the red rag thing on the ground? Not sure about Gove, but the red thing is a letter A, symbolic of the UK losing their AAA status with another financial ratings company.
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Cloud Potato posted:Guardian: I love how wherever the Tories go, they're haunted by the spectre of a giant fur cup waiting for them.
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Independent: Referencing footballer Luis Suarez biting an opponent. But the team colours are the wrong way around!  If...: 
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Cloud Potato posted:But the team colours are the wrong way around!
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Guavanaut posted:Conservatism dismembering an economy they accuse of being socialist?  Of course he'd be wearing Tory blue. These cartoons are too clever for me.
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