the scottish independence referendum

Les Pretend - classic Lib Dem

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JMW8yTccNAU/UAMRqMvfS8I/AAAAAAAAH8Q/9-X2Q-oS020/s640/zzap+063.jpg

"Ho Ho! That's the job for me - but I'd better disguise myself first" - Tony Blair, Dave Cameron, T May etc

walter the softy grew up to be jacob rees-mogg

(although i dunno how truly grown-up you can claim to be as an adult man who still has a nanny)

that doesn't work, jacob-rees mogg can't get enough of the ukip menace-types

more like rafael behr (except he sounds as if he's already a character in a different strip)

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/britishcomics/images/8/83/Finlayson.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150113130009

William Hague, earlier today

BIB

to get the thread back on track - remember that time gerard butler tried to fuck daphne broon?

https://www.sundaypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/01/Broons-New-Year.png

(looks suspiciously like ilx bete noir rory mcgrath tho tbh)

ok lol my sister just dropped in for a tea (hi odysseus, it was peppermint) and told me

a) STOP discussing the beano and brexit ffs, and
b) she is off to MAASTRICHT tomorrow :0

excellent call on babyface hague btw, nv, but this is me now signing off till the next gag strikes me as i have GROWN-UP WORK TO DO

tbh I originally had a suspicion that Brassneck looked like Jack Straw but the subsequent gis was disappointing

canonically jack straw is the demon headmaster iirc

and brassneck is fully automated luxury communist paul mason surely

YES I'M GOING NOW GOODBYE

lembit opik has more of a brassneck vibe to me

Gerard Butler, a good Gallowhill boy, GYT Ya Bass.

Baxendale said his comics were marxist, so maybe the Bash St Kids would all be adult SWP members.

they would be members of RISE

they would be in as many different parties as there are kids

(number of the members of Radical Independence Campaign which formed rise with the SSP were members of the SWP affiliated with central committee member Chris Bambery who left to form the International Social Group form which RIC originated)

i have seen chris bambery speak on the topic of scot nats

(shorter chris bambery: "snp = tartan tories lol")

it was a long time ago, and did not make me think it worth seeing him speak on other topics tbh

Re: Baxendale's Marxism - Yes, comic strips like The Swots and the Blots, The Jocks and the Geordies etc etc def restage the battle between DC Thomson management and their alienated workforce (ditto the conflict between Dennis and his nameless dominating Father, and Beryl and her nameless dominating Father, both drawn by the brilliant Davey Law - so many slipperings and punishments).

in beryl's case as much doting as dominating

i love davey law so much

Yeah, his drawing is just funnier than most other artists - so good on the little details of expression and posture. Baxendale's A Very Funny Business includes some wonderful original-size panel reproductions from Dennis where he points out Law's casual mastery of perspective, and the way he accurately (but cartoonishly) draws objects.

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still germane imo

lobey dosser the best scottish comic character imo

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61QHXfeaByL._SY367_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

i just googled scottish comic book characters and stumbled across an old blade supporting cast member called 'bible john' which seems a bit uh insensitive

This is excellent. And funny as well.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-nicola-sturgeon-scotland-indyref2-independence-europe-theresa-may-hypocrite-a7629686.html

Want to hear more about DC comics management vs workforce

James Butler excellent as usual (ie he agree with me): http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/opinion-perspectives/scotland-eyes-independence-can-nationalism-deliver-progressive-utopia

(even tho i faintly feel his "heaved" in the first sentence would be better as "hoven", tho apparently both are considered correct)

yeah that piece is excellent

https://vimeo.com/208529700

it's nice to hear somebody articulate the real arguments for a change

:)

tbf if i looked like jim traynor i'd prob hate scotland too

Sorry y'all there are more exciting things happening.

https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/BB-poster.jpg

belden vs milo, no less

The 1930s are back baby!

milo succeeding edward snowden would be a deeply surreal turn of events

no way milo wins. would be nice for piss pig grandad to win, he'll probably be locked up when he returns to the states after getting back from syria so the more international exposure of him the better i'd have thought

a year ago i'd be assured milo doesn't stand a chance but trump's in the white house and we're leaving the eu so who fucking knows anymore

there's always the possibility canadian transphobe jordan peterson takes it too

well i would say look at the recipients in recent times, not a single controversial right-wing figure

there's a decent sized tory rugger bugger constituency at glasgow but that definitely doesn't reflect a majority, and especially not of those involved with nerdy shit like student government and rectorship elections

Who's piss pig grandad?,

https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/10430/exclusive-anti-daesh-socialist-fighter-nominated-glasgow-university-rector

https://twitter.com/PissPigGranddad

fair play

Yep

he was on the chapo trap house podcast a few weeks ago gigglingly acknowledging that he's knowingly fighting alongside child soldiers