Design your own David Cameron poster

[Dunenewt]

Hopefully there will be a Gordon Brown one soon.

http://www.andybarefoot.com/politics/cameron.php

[Kiyouta]

Heh. Now there's a face I'd love to slap.

Poor Gordon :( When this guy takes office, we're gonna regret it sooner or later...

[Dunenewt]

You've got to be kidding, right?  He'll do a much better job than the current no hopers.

[SandChigger]

Saw him interviewed on CNNj Monday morning, from Davos.

Didn't sound a total git. For a politician.

[Dunenewt]

This picture sums up the current Government:

[Khan]

And this sums up the future one:

[Kiyouta]

SNAP ;D

[Edric O]

All true Tories know the Eton Voting Song:

Joy voting weather

Vote for us if you please

You're not so clever

You can't afford the fees

So we all stick together

With the rest of you on your knees

So we all stick together

With the rest of you on your knees

David is frightfully clever

Boris a bumbling fool

But we'll stick together

Just like we did at school

Birds of a feather

We're the biggest fish in the pool

No traces ever

Of whatever we smoked at school

[Kiyouta]

There are others, but they are more, *ahem*, explicit... :O

[SandChigger]

Toodlepip.  :D

Haven't heard/seen that in a while.

[Kiyouta]

LOL. Someone in the town where I live has graffitied our local David Cameron poster by giving him a Hitler mustache and nose ring. I was cycling so didn't get a picture... sorry!

[Edric O]

Best one yet:

[Khan]

That one's terrifying!

[Andrew]

Is that supposed to be Margaret Thatcher? (I dunno about UK politics).

But it looks good.

[nemafakei]

Yes, it's the Margaret Thatcher puppet from Spitting Image.

[Dante]

We really need more satire of that calibre these days.

[Khan]

There's always private eye. And Have I Got News For You.

[Kiyouta]

So just Ian Hislop? :(

[Anathema]

And this sums up the future one:

Hehe.

Blair was just as bad, though- IIRC the previous lord chancellor whatshisname was his flatmate from his college days, and I'm guessing he's not the only one.

As for Thatcher, I'm not sure I would have voted for her if I were a contemporary Brit...but some of the stuff she's now reviled for was necessary and would never have happened under a labour government. For example, she banned the closed shop practice. Before that, unions forced employers to hire only unionised workers. This is even more galling if you realize that part of your mandatory union fees would, in most cases, be funneled to the Labour party in election time.

That said, I don't like either Labour or the Tories much. I'd probably vote Lib Dem, even if they don't stand a chance in my constituency.

[Dante]

Found an interesting article recently about political posters as they are now compared to as they were. I'm inclined to follow the logic, given that practically anything said by a politician these days is uninspiring and insipid.

[Edric O]

As for Thatcher, I'm not sure I would have voted for her if I were a contemporary Brit...but some of the stuff she's now reviled for was necessary and would never have happened under a labour government. For example, she banned the closed shop practice. Before that, unions forced employers to hire only unionised workers.

And what exactly was wrong with that? Closed shops are the best safeguard against union-busting employers. They ensure high wages and may even reduce capitalist exploitation to a tolerable level.

Besides, banning any kind of agreement between employers and unions is a use of state power to restrict freedom of contract. And I thought you liberals supported freedom of contract as a matter of principle. Or is it ok for the state to intervene in the economy as long as it's on the side of the capitalists?

This is even more galling if you realize that part of your mandatory union fees would, in most cases, be funneled to the Labour party in election time.

And part of the mandatory "fee" that you pay to your boss - the value he extracts from you in order to make a profit - is often funneled to the Tory party.

That said, I don't like either Labour or the Tories much. I'd probably vote Lib Dem, even if they don't stand a chance in my constituency.

Ever the loyal liberal. :)

[Dunenewt]

Lib Dems aren't really liberal in the continental meaning of it though.

[nampigai]

[Dunenewt]

I don't see anything?

Edit - Do now!

[nemafakei]

"Lib Dems aren't really liberal in the continental meaning of it though."

Depends. They're certainly more like the D66 than the VVD in Dutch terms. Mind, they're often happy to push privatisation when they can't score political points off opposing it. On the other hand, even the Orange Book wing aren't the rabid free-marketeers you get in the continental liberal parties, and there is still a clear social-democratic strand to their politics, which is sadly being brushed aside by the present leadership. That's a mistake that'll cost them, I feel.