TOON TUESDAY #111

Barring a miracle, Andy Burnham will be PM a week today, so no prizes for guessing what dominates this week's cartoons (again).  Somewhat disgracefully, not one mainstream cartoonist sought to address the assassination of Ann Widdecombe.

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Matt Pritchett for The Sunday Telegraph

Stanley McMurtry for The Mail on Sunday

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Pete Songi on X

Peter Brookes for The Times

Morten Morland for The Sunday Times

TOON TUESDAY #110

It's all about the handover of power this week, as Burnham's coronation draws closer.  Starmer's defence review u-turn is widely seen as an unwelcome farewell gift to his successor, creating a budget headache upon arrival.  There's a ghost from New Labour past, as David Miliband makes an appearance.  Rumours are growing that the older Miliband could be returning from his US-based mass migration efforts to take up a position in Burnham's Cabinet.  Of couse he would have to re-enter the Commons, with one unnamed MP quoted in The Independent as saying he would be prepared to vacate his seat to make way for Miliband.  It all sounds rather familiar doesn't it?

Miliband - like Burnham - is a sponsored 'Young Global Leader' of the World Economic Forum.  We look set to be governed by more of the same, which is not necessarily a bad thing.  They will continue along the same totalitarian path that Starmer set us on and that will breed resentment.

Speaking of resentment, perhaps Patrick Blower should have a quiet word in Graeme Bandeira's ear about his Coronation Street cartoon, that is eerily similar to one of Blower's that was published in The Telegraph the previous week...

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Ella Baron for The Guardian

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Morten Morland for The Times

Chris Riddell for The Observer

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph

Graeme Bandeira for The Northern Agenda

Morten Morland has produced an intricate montage of political mayhem, albeit at odds with the lovely weather we've been having recently.  His wintry piece is available as a jigsaw puzzle here.  President Trump is one of the central characters, with Putin whispering in his ear as Zelenskyy controls a drone firing a snowball in his opponent's direction.  Don Jnr, Musk, Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Carney, Macron, Merz, Xi, Modi, Kim Jong Un, Netanyahu and the Iranian Mullahs are all in there, while the Pope watches on.  There are plenty of British figures too.  The King watches the chaos ensue, as a teary Rachel Reeves prepares to stab Camilla in the back with a sharp stake.  Farage, Lowe, Mandelson, Jenrick, Badenoch, Burnham, Lammy, Mahmood, Miliband, McSweeney and Starmer are all there, while Rayner takes shelter in one of her multiple homes.  There's even some rough and tumble as Corbyn and Sultana fight it out over their shitshow communist party!

TOON TUESDAY #109

It's all about Andy this week (as he likes it).  There has been a bit of a football theme recently, but this week tennis takes centre stage (or court) with Wimbledon under way.  There's also a welcome return for Peter Brookes' famous depiction of Ed Miliband as Wallace.  Miliband has been mooted as a potential Chancellor of the Exchequer under Burnham.  Gawd help us!

It's fair to say that some cartoonists have yet to get to grips with depicting Burnham.  The usually excellent Ben Jennings has drawn a particularly woeful interpretation, while Brighty's rendering has a whiff of Gordon Brown about it...

Steve Bright for The Sun

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Graeme Bandeira for The Northern Agenda

Morten Morland for The Times

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Morten Morland for The Times

Ella Baron for The Guardian

Nick Newman for The Sunday Times

Morten Morland for The Times

Peter Brookes for The Times

Morten Morland for The Sunday Times

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegrpah

Morten Morland for The Times

Nick Newman for The Sunday Times

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Denzo on X

MEME MONDAY #89

It was momentous week as the inevitable finally caught up with Keir Starmer.  Yes, the week kicked off with the biggest resignation in British politics since the end of Liz Truss's fifty days in the big job.  Both were cut down by their own MPs, with a replacement readily lined up to be crowned PM without so much as a leadership contest.  Burnham's own coronation may not be confirmed just yet, but the likelihood of a challenge is diminishing.

Karl has taken his foot off the gas since returning from a short break and there were no Facebook Stories published last week.  That is set to change this week, but memes may still be few and far between for a wee while.  We do have day jobs and families, and if it weren't for the regular donations of Colleen Evans there is every chance we would have wound this campaign up by now.  Thanks Colleen, you are our rock.

Mon 22 Jun - 98 shares

Mon 22 Jun - 65 shares

Mon 22 Jun - 124 shares

Tue 23 Jun - 12 shares

Tue 23 Jun - 80 shares.  This post generated lots of debate,
with 1.1 million views and over three thousand comments.
The results (as it stands at the time of writing) are:
Leave, no regrets = 16,463
Remain, no regrets = 6,535
Leave, now Remain = 740
Remain, now Leave = 394

Wed 24 Jun - 204 shares.  Most MPs, but Burnham's decapitation of
the dire Starmer will save a few (as will Rupert Lowe)

Thu 25 Jun - 606 shares

Thu 25 Jun - 831 shares

Fri 26 Jun - 7 shares

Sat 27 Jun - 231 shares.  Rumours abound Burnham will call an autumn
election, which could have disastrous consequences and lead to a rainbow
coalition of leftist Hell

Sun 28 Jun - 23 shares.  If you're not on X, supporting Elon and the
proliferation of free speech - you are part of the problem

Sun 28 Jun - 14 shares.  One shy of a thousand, if only there was such a
number to call in this ongoing emergency!

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MEME MONDAY #85

Karl is currently away and the memes have begun to dry up, hence dwindling returns.  Richey will try his hand over the next day or two, but in the meantime here are the handful that were published last week...

Mon 25 May - 76 shares

Mon 25 May - 8 shares

Mon 25 May - 62 shares.  Judging by the comments, this show is still
fondly remembered more than 40 years on, albeit sadly now a relic of a
more homogeneous past

Wed 27 May - 316 shares

Wed 27 May - 23 shares

Thu 28 May - 394 shares.  Scotland is a land in which legends continue to
be born and this lad follows in the footsteps of the wee lassie who famously
brandished an axe and a knife to ward off migrant deviants only last year

Thu 29 May - 58 shares.  The usual suspects were bussed into Wigan from
the south of England to protest against the election of  more than two dozen
Reform councillors in the recent local elections.  These anti-democratic
fascists are also flocking to the nearby Makerfield constituency to try and
stop Reform from unseating Labour there and - by design or by proxy -
support Burnham's attempt to wrest control of the party from Starmer

Sat 30 May - 5 shares

Just two Facebook Stories were published last week on account of Karl's holiday...

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