Category: Satirical Cartoon

Some vaguely recognisable faces, Debra Davis, Kid Jenson, that fella off Heart FM (although they are all wearing City TV badges so we know who they are) are queuing outside a Job Centre.

There’s a TV crew filming them, they have ‘Benefits St’ on their hi-vis tabards.

Heart FM chappie is saying: “At least we finally get to make a programme.”

The back room of a pub, it’s packed to bursting with people in smart suits and dresses. They aren’t sad but the room is somber. A sign on the door says “Bob Jones’s Wake”, a discarded newspaper has the headline “Bob Jones Police Commissioner Dies”.

One chap nearest us is saying: “where were all these lot on election day?”

A schoolgirl is stretching to reach the books in the Library of Birmingham. She is standing in front of a shelf marked “Great American Novels”. The shelves start too high up the walls, well above her head.

In the foreground some men in suits are talking. One holds a newspaper with the headline “Gove’s New Booklist”. He is saying “looks like we can cancel the step-ladders, then”.

A man in a jumper sits in a large armchair in a very traditionally decorated large semi-detached house. He’s reading the Evening Mail, he has it open on his lap and we can read the headline ‘Poor Ukip performance in Birmingham’.

His wife is carrying one cup of tea — in a cup and saucer — towards him.

He says: “it seems Birmingham decided it already had enough fruitcakes and loonies on the council.”

Then everyone retweets it as it “nails it”.

Councillor John Lines (he looks like a fat Jimmy Greaves) is in his old Lord Mayor’s uniform — he’s holding up a Tory election leaflet that says ‘No more garden tax’ and is berating a group of dustmen. The dustmen are dressed like the dad in My Fair Lady except they have some Nazi uniform bits (maybe one has a cap, another an armband).

“But you dressed us up like this.” one of the binmen is saying.

Sneaking past towards the Birmingham Council House, which is draped in a banner that says ‘Local and EU Elections Today’ — are some actual Nazis, with BNP, UKIP rosettes on riding a wheelie bin. Farage is pushing the bin and grinning — while slurping from a pint obviously.

A local newspaper reporter ‘Press’ card in the brim of his trilby hat is watching Lines and writing. He has a copy of the Evening Mail with the headline ‘Council binmen like the Gestapo‘.

A Tory fat cat who probably looks a lot like Cameron, in stockings and suspenders bends around a pole in a lap dancing club. In the crowd are Mike Whitby and Albert Bore, with conference-style name tags on so we know who they are. Mike is egging Albert on to slip a £1M note into the dancers suspenders, where there are already lots of them.

On the floor is an Evening Mail with the headline ‘Council £1.5M on Tory Conference‘, and something about a free pasty.