the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

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Knowledge is knowing that 'Frankenstein' was the name of the doctor, not the 'monster'.
Wisdom is knowing that Dr Frankenstein is the monster.
Awareness is knowing that everybody who works for The Sun is a cunt.

— Tim Ireland (@bloggerheads) March 7, 2018

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/07/ousted-ukip-leader-henry-bolton-launches-new-political-party/

One Nation Under A Groove

Maggot Brain more like.

"There is a need for a truly professional political party that believes in Britain, that preserves our national identity, culture, heritage and confidence and talks our great nation up rather than down."

yes, now more than ever what we need is a truly professional political party, one led by *checks notes* uh a guy who got kicked out of ukip for shagging someone too openly racist for the uk's most racist party to tolerate

And who was prepared to chuck her to the kerb to stay on as leader until he got chucked, at which point he went back for her aww and showed a man of principles! As in 'I think there's one over there"

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Corbyn goes in on Saudi human rights at #PMQs. May accuses him of "mansplaining" after he says it's International Women's Day tmrw.

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) March 7, 2018

Sick burn

oh god it's even more cringeworthy than you'd imagine

.@jeremycorbyn: 'to mansplain - verb informal - explaining (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronising.' #PMQs #IWD2018 pic.twitter.com/dZQuPByChF

— Theresa May (@theresa_may) March 7, 2018

The Irony Lady (what with only 28% of her party's MPs being women)

Britain First jailed for nine months

You know who else was jailed for nine months

by the rate Britain First numpt is ageing, he'll be pushing a bunny-hatted Frank Field around in a pram, before he get's out/knock's out his political manifesto.

The EU has thrown down an ultimatum to Theresa May in Brexit talks, warning that it will not open discussions about trade or other issues until the Irish border question is solved.

Speaking in Dublin alongside the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, European Council president Donald Tusk said talks would be a case of “Ireland first” and that “the risk of destabilising the fragile peace process must be avoided at all costs”.

“We know today that the UK government rejects a customs and regulatory border down the Irish Sea, the EU single market, and the customs union,” the Council president said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-talks-irish-border-tusk-varadkar-northern-ireland-uk-solution-dup-a8246216.html

The proposed free school meal cuts to kids on UC will be forced to a Parliamentary vote now. Even the DUP are against this grotesque shit, so no majority.

"Labour’s shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has forced ministers to bring them to the floor of the Commons using an obscure parliamentary process known as “praying against” the regulations."

maybe this belongs on the bad cartoons thread but here is after all where we talked abt him already

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jesus wept, talk about making fuck all talent go a very long way. Might buy a copy of Private Eye one day, now I've got my first prescription reading glasses, might just be able to read that almost microfiche sized print that usually I can only make out on links like this.

private eye is also bad not good tbh, except sometimes on gossip from within the grown-up press

also holding rich men to ransom bcz yr the only popular commodity they have to hand isn't a negligeable talent

there's lots of shit unfunny humour, but streets of shame is v good.

Yes private eye is good not bad so long as someone tapes over I think virtually all of the cartoons

worst regular comic strip appearing in Private Eye as of december 2014

the term sub-matt was coined on the bad uk cartoons thread: prviate eye has devoted years to its full realisation

six hundred and fifty thousand pounds per annum

i find it helps to think abt how very very much the barclay twins must hate him

wish i had tried the crap that 'art attack' advised now.

Nabisco george the poet otm

"Private Eye" is good investigative journalism with some shitty cartoons thrown in. It's a shame they label themselves as a satirical mag when that's clearly not their main concern but hey.

Some of the individual panel cartoons in PE are OK, tho' generally they are not a patch on the ones in The New Yorker, or even (gulp) The Spectator. It's the regular comic strips that are so irredeemably poor.

I wonder if Matt is the best-paid newspaper cartoonist in the world, or if a British cartoonist before him has ever had such 'power' over editors and owners (maybe Giles at his peak? Or even Vicky, during the war years?)

i'm sure if said this before on ilx but i'd probably pay more for an edition of private eye in which the cartoons and 'satire' were excised altogether

matt, but every caption replaced with "christ what a racket"

I can see why his lordship's recent birthday party so was well attended now. Lovely guy, damn these contrarian norms that think otherwise, such a humble guy who earns 100 times more than you for drawing a cock than you earn for 50000 words. Btw attendance isn't optional people.

lmao @ this shit lazy doodler being the best thing in the paper, the guy that keeps the circulation above water. Tragically, it's almost certainly true.

.@Telegraph lol your readership is dying and the cartoonist who can only draw the same three people with overbites is your MVP

anyone still doubting the political smarts of the corb team, just remind them he cheerfully dunked on matt before all this went public: this is why medway is now in play

btew it totally owns that all the identical ppl in every identical matt cartoon have cock and balls for a face, banksy retire binch

here's me drawing cock and balls for free like a fuckin chump while matt makes a cool two-thirds of a mil each year doing the same thing in the pages of sir bufton-tufton's favoured monocle-popper, smdh

.@Telegraph lol your readership is dying and the cartoonist who can only draw the same three people with overbites is your MVP

They should probably also give a hefty raise to the crossword bloke and the dudes who write about cricket as well b/c they're pretty much the only things people buy it for these days.

If the brothers weren't so clearly attached to having a platform to foghorn fascism into the public discourse, I'd suggest they relaunch the Telegraph as an upmarket sports paper.

the barclays are in that rare class of rich weirdoes where if they appeared in fiction you'd think them a bit too much of a departure from reality to be believable

is there a decent bio of them out there anywhere or have they litigated away any decent exposés?

the ranter is good on the proliferation of rich weirdos: http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2017/11/19/the-theory-of-the-eccentric-billionaire-and-why-politicians-got-so-awful/

mathematical proof of who is the greatest artist of all time

Just did some quick sums and I reckon Matt is paid more for every single cartoon he draws than van Gogh was for the one painting he sold in his life, hahahahaha.

— Dan Howdon (@danielhowdon) March 9, 2018

Lol that's so dumb.

I'm pretty sure the Baha Men made more money off one song than Johann Sebastian Bach made in his entire career.

I'm genuinely curious how long it takes Matt to draw a cartoon on average, and what his hourly rate works out at. (iirc he actually submits six cartoons in sketch form each day and the Telegraph editors choose the best one which Matt then inks? do the other cartoons just go in the bin or is there a Matt archive being maintained? will there be some kind of Beatles Anthology style release of the rejected Matt cartoons?)

xp I agree it's stupid, but not more stupid than Matt's salary

dude he has delivered 65,700 cock-and-ball tableaux, if anything he is underpaid for this monument to subversive effrontery

SENSATION, except 65,700 scribbled pencilworks of cock and balls by matt

It's a bit "Stanley Matthews used to get the bus alongside fans, play in the FA Cup final and by Monday he was back working at the lathe in the factory..."

this was apparently the average day for the late David Austin when he was the Guardian's pocket cartoonist (though presumably he was being payed less than £650,000 a year)

For nearly thirty years Austin shared a studio with Nick Newman and Kipper Williams, above a shop off London's Tottenham Court Road, to which he walked each day from his home in Highbury. Austin worked meticulously in spiral-bound workbooks to produce up to nine rough ideas each day, and in the afternoon walked over to The Guardian office.

As two of his Guardian colleagues recalled in 2005: "He came into the main building in Farringon Road, Clerkenwell, each afternoon at 4pm, read through the letters to be published the next morning, began identifying his possible themes, and went to the editorial conference at 5pm. Then he scowled, stuck in his ear plugs - defiantly not an office-dweller, he did not like noise - scrawled sketches across complete pages of his notebook, and produced a set of nine little boxes containing drafts of his ideas. The duty editor chose one, the letters editor another, and David polished off the finished product. By 6.30, he was gone." As one of the paper's editorial staff recalled, "the difficult bit was not picking two to adorn the newspaper, but having to discard at least three or four others which would also have been sure to give pleasure."