The language of diplomacy ain’t what it used to be.
Follow us on Twitter
Category Archives: Cartoons
Urgent witness appeal: were you in Westminster around 12:30pm yesterday?
Though cartoonist and animator Beau Bo D’Or has – alas – closed down his blog, the satire lives on. Follow him on Twitter for irregular photoshop genius. Indeed, with yesterday’s act of unspeakable savagery in SW1A only one man can help:
With 18,000 fewer police it’s reassuring to have Quincy on board.
Nick Clegg sends a gift for Florence Rose Endellion
It’s fantastic to see Beau Bo D’Or (@BeauBodOr) is back and in rude health with the creation below. Eschewing baby toys for a more practical gift, a well placed source tells Scrapbook that a bumper pack of “Cleggies” was dispatched to the Camerons via courier this morning.
Vince Cable wet wipes were also included.
In praise of Beau Bo D'Or
Cartoonist cum graphic artist cum video creative Beau Bo D’Or produces some of the most ingenious and skilfully executed visual satire full stop and the best on the British blogosphere by a country mile. It was therefore with some sadness that Scrapbook read he is taking a short break from blogging, which has been light recently owing to a health problem.
It was the stop-gap ‘best of’ post announcing his hiatus that drew this blogger’s attention to a year-old video given new relevance with the news of the now impending fraud trials of four parliamentarians. Cleverly linking the sarcastic materialism of Renton’s “choose life” monologue in Trainspotting to MPs’ expense claims might well be worth spending an hour photoshopping Peter Viggers’ head onto a film poster:
Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics.
But what BBDO produced was truly remarkable, superimposing the faces of MPs onto footage from the film frame-by-frame. Unsurprisingly, “it took ages”:
Should you still need convincing to follow @beaubodor check out Lord Ashcroft won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Get well soon.
Their ad isn't working
Firstly, sorry for being a very bad blogger. With one thing or another this hasn’t been updated in too long and in the afternoon when fewer people are paying attention. Scrapbook’s New Election Resolution™ is to post every weekday morning at some point between 9 and 10am (best intentions blah blah).
Stay tuned for some Tory PPC action tomorrow. But in the meantime check out these beauties from Beau Bo D’Or:
With a difficult-to-reproduce tombstone font effect and the absence of a badly airbrushed Tory frontbencher, CCHQ are making lefties work that much harder to spoof their latest advert. This, however, is a work of total genius:
To join in the fun play with the template from MyDavidCameron.com.
Apparently an automated version is in the works.
We is all in dis ting together, yeah?
Expect a veritable torrent of poster spoofs (from all sides) in between now and May. mydavidcameron.com have set the bar very high with their mixture of home-grown and reader submitted material. Here are Scrapbook’s choice picks:
Those of a creative bent can try their hand with this template (the font is Franklin Gothic Demi).
More over at mydavidcameron.com!
The Labour Party, January 2010
Another Goya painting, A Procession of the Flagellants, is probably a better metaphor but the above evokes well the appropriate emotional response to senseless cannibalism.*
Normal breezy humour and taking the p*ss out of Tories will be back tomorrow.
*For something less hysterical check out Alex Smith’s sage advice over at LabourList:
These revelations – no matter how harsh – should be lessons for the party as it prepares for an election that cannot be called off. They shouldn’t be allowed to distract from the important tasks, and will be forgotten as quickly as this week’s other events.
#Lolplot (or Lolcats meets general Hoonery)
Politicos whose brows furrowed at the twists and turns of yesterday’s abortive coup should permit themselves a laugh today courtesy of Liberal Conspiracy. A hilarious combination of Lolcats (say what?) and political incompetence spawned Lolplot, available to view here with more here. Here are two of the best:
You don’t seriously expect this blog to watch from the sidelines? Here is Scrapbook’s effort:
For a regular doses check out Lolitics, where u can haz birmingham politics.