9 Replies to “Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill”

  1. Ah patriotism dressed in the flag, the last and probably first clothing of a scoundrel. Yes I know it is a misquote but in this case it is appropriate and a great deflection tactic by the right..

    1. The last refuge of a scoundrel, the first refuge of a fascist.

      I must say, looking at the events of the last week, I know where I’m placing my money.

  2. Great tweet over at Medialens in response to the Munchetty tweet.
    “When you’re a high-profile BBC figure, you’re obliged to tweet out an apology like this.
    But when have high-profile BBC figures ever apologised for platforming govt propaganda on Iraq, Libya, Syria, the NHS, ‘austerity’, militarism, the royal family? The list is endless.”
    https://twitter.com/medialens/status/1372848787140571138

    2. It’s a weird sort of apology that doesn’t apologise for the perp’s actions but only for the offence taken. But whatever – it was just a tweet from Nagger ffs.

      Iraq: I like those “on this day” tweets as a sort of running timeline reminder and otd in 2003 the ground war in Iraq was launched. No WMDs were ever found and no Brit politician has ever been fizzed for war crimes. No-one has owned up to killing David Kelly. Robin Cook? Hmmm … . Clare Short dropped out of sight. Mr Blur is a very rich man. No-one apologised for the million and a half deaths.

      Crimes get smaller in the rear-view mirror

  3. It’s a good day for certain elements of the media (and the public sadly) when they get to bash the BBC and a non-white women at the same time and even better when it’s ‘an attack on THE FLAG’. I bet quite a few journalists have had to have a good sit down with a cup of British tea to calm themselves.

  4. Great cartoon as usual and so true.
    Why do we need so many flags? Usually it is to send a message that “this” is the national policy and anyone who has a different opinion is either disloyal and/ or bordering on treachery. We saw all of this iin Nazi Germany when there were lots of swasitka flags flown everywhere.

  5. I did a google image search for Winston Churchill and in the only images I found in which he had a flag behind him it was the US flag when he went to the US to address Congress. Clearly by the standards of the current lot he wasn’t patriotic and should have considered living in a different country.

    1. Well Churchill was American, you know. That is why he sold us out to them in WW2. The only reason old Winston identified as English in the first place was that it was England that was a world power when he was young and America wasn’t. He always spoke about how he loved and envied America though.

      He poured the UK’s wealth away in an attempt to impress America, allowed the UK to be occupied by America, and generally was America’s lapdog throughout his political career. He talked a good game, granted, but when you take a closer look at him…

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