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Mr. Squishy posted:The Indie guy works severed limbs in on the flimsiest pretexts. In fact, the driest cartoons are the Expres and the Mail, which says something about the purifying effect of macabre humour. Or something. Yeah but the context is completely different when you're actually depicting murderous bloody regimes, or going for surrealism. A lot of the Times stuff reminds me of things teenage boys draw because gratuitous violence and torture is awesome. Maybe because that's always basically The Joke. (I just realised it's not the usual guy either, maybe it's a Times trend?) I dunno, it just seems lazy and weird to me
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Betjeman posted:Spring finally arrives? I'd say "start of March" is fairly early for this kind of weather. Last year it snowed into April.
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Cloud Potato posted:Guardian:
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Betjeman posted:Spring finally arrives? I'd say "start of March" is fairly early for this kind of weather. Last year it snowed into April. An absolute inability to remember, connect or compare two or more events or to have any temporal or spacial awareness on any level is key to the Express mindset.
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on Gordon Brown and Scottish independence – Former Labour PM calls for Scotland to have right to set tax and welfare policies" Telegraph:  Labour in tax raid on pensions to help jobless Independent:  Times:  Express: 
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The fact that English cartoonists seem to think Gordon Brown is more respected in Scotland than Alex Salmond speaks volumes to their complete and utter loving ignorance on the subject. loving hell.
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Mr. Squishy posted:The Indie guy works severed limbs in on the flimsiest pretexts. In fact, the driest cartoons are the Expres and the Mail, which says something about the purifying effect of macabre humour. Or something. You were saying?  Not that I have a problem with politicians' heads on pikes, I just prefer it without the fascist nationalist overtones
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Coohoolin posted:The fact that English cartoonists seem to think Gordon Brown is more respected in Scotland than Alex Salmond speaks volumes to their complete and utter loving ignorance on the subject. loving hell. Just count yourself lucky they didn't put a kilt on him.
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I love the bag being labeled "Swag". Top-notch use of a label in a political cartoon.
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baka kaba posted:Not that I have a problem with politicians' heads on pikes, I just prefer it without the fascist nationalist overtones You probably shouldn't read the Express then.
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Puntification posted:You probably shouldn't read the Express then. That's just sound advice in general though Nice of Ed Balls to leave his swag bag at the bank! Maybe he was making a deposit
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baka kaba posted:That's just sound advice in general though 
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Cloud Potato posted:Independent: Not quite just a random "Jocks, hur" reference. 2013 was the first year since the 1930s without a reported sighting of Nessie.
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"Scotland is a foreign country and should be treated as such without ever letting it get independence" seems to be the consensus with the English commentators and some British tits born in Scotland.
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baka kaba posted:You were saying? Clear evidence that the entirety of British cartooning reads the thread. Also the Times draws a decent fat-cat. If only their editorial slant allowed them to do so more.
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Isn't a sword laid over a shield KGB iconography?
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Gonzo McFee posted:some British tits born in Scotland. So Brown isn't a true Scotsman?
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ReV VAdAUL posted:So Brown isn't a true Scotsman? He wasn't depicted wearing a kilt, so from what I understand of British paper caricature, no.
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on Boris Johnson's reaction to the death of Bob Crow – Mayor of London says he had been shocked to learn of the death of 'a fighter and a man of character'" After Gustave Doré. Telegraph:  Independent:  Times:  Yesterday's Mail: "Having promised to get bin collections back on a weekly basis. Eric Pickles has backed down."  quote:“I don’t understand all the fuss. I very rarely bin anything.” Mail:  quote:‘I’ll have the ham, lightly grilled, just a hint of Dijon mustard, two vine tomatoes, and by the way this orange juice is corked.’ Express: 
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail: Two references to Gustave Doré, but at least Bell put some effort in. Still not as good as the Thatcher one though.
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Typically I am one to spit at whiners whining about imagined racism but that kid in the Mail cartoon, fuckin' hell might as well give him a waddymelon to go with those lips.
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Cloud Potato posted:Independent: Cliff Racer posted:Typically I am one to spit at whiners whining about imagined racism but that kid in the Mail cartoon, fuckin' hell might as well give him a waddymelon to go with those lips.
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Guardian: "Steve Bell on Prince Charles's 'black spider memos' – The court of appeal has rebuffed the attorney general's decision to veto the publication of Prince Charles's 'black spider memos'." Telegraph:  Labour makes no sense on Europe, says David Cameron Independent:  Times:  Mail: "Ed Miliband seems to have ruled out a referendum on the EU if he gets into government."  quote:”This letter to Miliband about a referendum. Do you want all the effing, blinding and beheading threats left in?” Express: 
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Cloud Potato posted:Independent: I really like this one.
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Cloud Potato posted:Guardian: loving Prince Charles. Ughh!!
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Fluo posted:loving Prince Charles. Ughh!! This came off dirtier than you expected  What's arse backwards about not committing to a particular policy? I don't get the problem.
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Cloud Potato posted:Mail: The Shiekh of Wales... e: it's a bit arse-backwards to construct a policy with the sole intention of spinning it two different ways to two different markets.
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mfcrocker posted:This came off dirtier than you expected He committed to a policy, no referendum on current EU involvement, in/out referendum if the EU wants to expand it's powers in the UK. Apparently this is too complex for conservatives to understand. Either that or they're trying to manufacture a talking point out of nothing.
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Mr. Squishy posted:e: it's a bit arse-backwards to construct a policy with the sole intention of spinning it two different ways to two different markets. I guess, although more likely Strawman posted:they're trying to manufacture a talking point out of nothing.
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It's telling how bad the tories are that people are willing to believe in the sincerity of New Labour.
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I didn't know Prince Charles wanted a referendum on the EU. At least I presume that's what Mac is implying.
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Mr. Squishy posted:It's telling how bad the tories are that people are willing to believe in the sincerity of New Labour. Ahahahaha no they're all scum
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Quincey posted:I didn't know Prince Charles wanted a referendum on the EU. At least I presume that's what Mac is implying.
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Uhm, aren't dentists self-employed? My mate, and all of his colleagues I have met are, and also very, very well paid, and just get NHS payments towards treatment and the patient has to divvy up the rest, no matter their situation, and thats if the Dentist is even taking NHS patients.
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As far as I know my dentist (who is loving amazing  ) is the practice's resident NHS dentist and all the others are private, and that she's basically employed by the NHS. That's the impression I've got anyway, from chatting it up. Treatment isn't free on the NHS, but it's still fixed pricing, and you don't have to pay if you meet some of the usual criteria (under 18, some students, on JSA etc.)There's no way angry pinstripe man has gone anything but private, though
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Trickjaw posted:Uhm, aren't dentists self-employed? My mate, and all of his colleagues I have met are, and also very, very well paid, and just get NHS payments towards treatment and the patient has to divvy up the rest, no matter their situation, and thats if the Dentist is even taking NHS patients. I think technically they are all private even those that do NHS services; the NHS offers to pay them a fixed amount to take on a quota of however many patients, and as baka kaba posted if the patient is over 18 etc. it's only subsidised rather than NHS funded. I was told once by someone Bevan was too exhausted after forcing the doctors in line to do the same job with the dentists unfortunately.
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mfcrocker posted:This came off dirtier than you expected Oh I was going ughh at Prince Charles black spider memos because for years he has been sending them to whoever the prime minister is lobbying for things such as homeopathy. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...hy-8723145.html http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/13/prince-charity-lobbied-government-homeopathy http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/dec/26/prince-charles-black-spider-veto quote:[...]The tribunal's decision comes amid continuing criticism that the prince has been interfering behind the scenes in the affairs of government and trying to persuade ministers to change official policies.
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