Best Political Cartoons

[starseeker]

To explain, it's about the Tory party, our current ruling party and conservative party, having a stupid row about gay marriage. The more traditionalist parts are against, but the party heads are for it.

No idea about the skeleton though.

[DiscoBerry]

[Material Defender]

If this child was Catholic or Liberal Protestant, he would have been given the Dunce Cap for that one.

[Sandafluffoid]

To explain, it's about the Tory party, our current ruling party and conservative party, having a stupid row about gay marriage. The more traditionalist parts are against, but the party heads are for it.

No idea about the skeleton though.

The way I interpreted it was Cameron being heckled by his own party (opposition to the bill is mostly coming from the far right of the party who seem not to realise public support for marriage equality is overwhelming). Storm in a cup because the issue is only an issue within the conservative party, and I believe fur cup because, as the giant cat in the second panel indicates, it is primarily caused by fat cats. The skeleton is, as far as I can tell from what it is reading meant to be a representative of the neo-conservative ideology in British politics? As for the Sloth with the olympic torch, I guess it is meant to be about how the olympics failed to boost our economy like the government hoped, although what it is doing here I don't know.

[Auggziliary]

To explain, it's about the Tory party, our current ruling party and conservative party, having a stupid row about gay marriage. The more traditionalist parts are against, but the party heads are for it.

No idea about the skeleton though.

The way I interpreted it was Cameron being heckled by his own party (opposition to the bill is mostly coming from the far right of the party who seem not to realise public support for marriage equality is overwhelming). Storm in a cup because the issue is only an issue within the conservative party, and I believe fur cup because, as the giant cat in the second panel indicates, it is primarily caused by fat cats. The skeleton is, as far as I can tell from what it is reading meant to be a representative of the neo-conservative ideology in British politics? As for the Sloth with the olympic torch, I guess it is meant to be about how the olympics failed to boost our economy like the government hoped, although what it is doing here I don't know.

What about the dragons looking at the fat cat?
I'm still seriously confused by this. I do like how well drawn it is though, and the lack of labels on everything.

[Osama bin Bambi]

Britain, what the fuck are you putting in your tea, and where can I get some?

[starseeker]

Thinking about it, the sloth is probably to do with the fact that the olympics was supposed to have young people be more active, but they're not. The whole 2 hours of PE a week thing also died.

[mellenORL]

Those are hadrosaurs (Britain's most common dinosaur fossils) in the background...implying these Tories in a fur cup are going the way of...

[Kit Walker]

I love that Mexico is in place of Hell. I find it hilarious for some reason. Also that Heaven and Mexico are located in the relative-but-ultimately-meaningless "up" and "down in relation to the ecliptic.

[Auggziliary]

I love that Mexico is in place of Hell. I find it hilarious for some reason. Also that Heaven and Mexico are located in the relative-but-ultimately-meaningless "up" and "down in relation to the ecliptic.

It's a very clever way to add in a "Dumb Creationists/conservatives think the world revolves around America" joke.

[dpareja]

I love that Mexico is in place of Hell. I find it hilarious for some reason. Also that Heaven and Mexico are located in the relative-but-ultimately-meaningless "up" and "down in relation to the ecliptic.

It's a very clever way to add in a "Dumb Creationists/conservatives think the world revolves around America" joke.

So if Mexico is Hell in that picture, what would that make Canada? 

[The Illusive Man]

To explain, it's about the Tory party, our current ruling party and conservative party, having a stupid row about gay marriage. The more traditionalist parts are against, but the party heads are for it.

No idea about the skeleton though.

The way I interpreted it was Cameron being heckled by his own party (opposition to the bill is mostly coming from the far right of the party who seem not to realise public support for marriage equality is overwhelming). Storm in a cup because the issue is only an issue within the conservative party, and I believe fur cup because, as the giant cat in the second panel indicates, it is primarily caused by fat cats. The skeleton is, as far as I can tell from what it is reading meant to be a representative of the neo-conservative ideology in British politics? As for the Sloth with the olympic torch, I guess it is meant to be about how the olympics failed to boost our economy like the government hoped, although what it is doing here I don't know.

I though that was a nail, as in "a want for a nail."

[chad sexington]

It's the Growth Sloth, as in economic growth - the Olympics was projected to bring huge benefits to the UK economy, yet strangely enough, they didn't materialise (hence the tiny torch).

[RavynousHunter]

Steve Bell's cartoons are confusing as fuck, but you gotta admit...that man's got some serious drawing skill.

[Julian]

That was by Martin Rowson, he and Steve Bell both contribute to the same series. (The fact that Cameron's been drawn as a shiny pink condom is very Steve Bell though) I tend to prefer Rowson.

I don't really follow the series, and the fur cup thing was a bit weird (obvious storm in a tea cup metaphor aside), but I still see it a bit like they're fleas on the sloth. It was a bit telling that the fat cats were walking away from the sloth too.

The keys(?) in the pail have got me beat. Not being able to read the labels doesn't help. The skeleton in the closet is that Tony Blair ("New" Labour, who was an appalling neocon moronic twat, who ironically headed up the left wing party), and he tried to modernise his party etc. Cameron's trying to bring the whole "New Labour" modernisation/detoxification of his party, but it always was a sham, and this is just pointing out their true colours.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2013/feb/03/gay-marriage-debate

the dinosaur is a triple-dip diplodocus...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2013/jan/25/martin-rowson-britain-gdp-cartoon

The Olympics always were going to be an anomaly and the tiny spike in GDP for that quarter was only ever going to turn the double dip recession into a triple dip one, and the death spiral from Osborne's policy has only just begun. He turned the recovery he inherited from Labour into a double dip recession, the triple-dip is as mentioned, and the worst of his policies haven't really been implemented yet. It's going to get really nasty indeed. Even the IMF, OECD and others think he's completely lost his marbles.

(Oh and there's a furry tea cup in the background there too.) --and the disappearing fat cats again.