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NEW TORY FLAVOUR

I’ve been meaning to update this poster for a while to include the “NEW” Tory option available to voters. Particularly in the context of the Gorton and Denton by-election, which has proven just how much Labour and much of the UK’s political and media establishment would rather see the barely-disguised fascists of Reform win political power, than allow the Greens, or any other left wing alternative succeed in driving back the rise of the far-right in the UK.

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THEFT IS LEGAL

AI corporations are putting all their chips on railroading legislators around the world to prevent regulation of the industry long enough so they can figure out a way of making their businesses profitable, no matter what the cost to culture, society, the planet, or even to the precious economy they claim to love. Unfortunately most leaders are easily bamboozled about new technology and the utopian claims of tech-fantasist snake oil salesmen like Sam Altman and Elon Musk. OpenAI is not going to create a super intelligent god on earth, it’s going to basically make a new version of Google, another fucking advertising platform, and they’re going to destroy the internet and human culture in order to do so. As a proposition that doesn’t sound worth it, but if you frame it as an inevitable fourth industrial revolution that will solve every problem from cancer to global warming and provide unlimited amounts of everything you could ever want, then politicians start to lap it up.

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THE NATIONAL CREDIT CARD

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country." – Margaret Thatcher Rachel Reeves explains how to run your household budget in today’s Sun. It feels like every chancellor and prime minister in living memory has presented some version of this completely inaccurate and misleading comparison between balancing a household budget and running a national economy, and its never met with the derision it deserves by the media. On the contrary it is presented as sound, logical and relatable, despite being demonstratably wrong. As Avery Edison said on Twitter, “even pretending to believe these are relevant experiences should actually be disqualifying.” Anyone in government who refers to the “national credit card” being “maxed out” should, by law, either have to resign or take a compulsory economics course. I’ve been thinking about doing a sequel to the Mini Daily Mail for a while and I think this might be the start of it. I already have the front page ready to go. "If you have maxed out your credit card, if you put off dealing with the problem, the problem gets worse.” – David Cameron

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RED TORY IS A FEELING PATCH

I made some iron-on patches to update my Tory is a Feeling t-shirts to reflect the Tories currently in power. You can buy a patch by itself from my website shop but until Xmas and orders of these shirts gets one included for free. Link in bio! And to think we could have had President Sanders and Prime Minister Corbyn and yet these centrist neoliberal ghouls had to throw everything they could muster at stopping that from happening, and instead facilitated the rise of Johnson and Trump. 🥀

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UK GOVT SAYS I’M AN “EXTREMIST”

Novara has reported that John Woodcock AKA Lord Walney, the government’s nominally “independent” advisor on political extremism, sent a dossier to the home secretary, following allegations of abuse during the general election, which included my “Vote for Genocide” poster as an example of a “concerted campaign by extremists”. You can still download the poster for free from my website here.

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SO MANY FLAVOURS OF TORY TO CHOOSE FROM

Don’t forget to vote for your favourite flavour of Tory tomorrow! I’ll be voting Green in a solid Tory Red council so I’m not exactly expecting to budge the needle. But at the very least I’ll sleep soundly knowing my vote won’t be going to the Labour Right’s neoliberal, racist, war-hungry political project for the promotion of revolving-door briefcase dickheads who dream of nothing more than getting second jobs at privatised utilities firms or as advisors to gambling companies.

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DEMOCRACY

I love democracy me. All those years of urgent screeching by centrists and liberals about being ‘politically homeless’ and they finally got what they wanted, the left crushed out of political life, and all three major parties offering nothing more than moderately different flavours of the exact the same thing: neoliberalism, crackdowns, more cops, fewer nurses, ongoing-austerity and constant boot-licked fealty to the worst and cruellest opinions bellowed out daily by the Mail and Sun. But this is, at the heart of it, what neoliberalism and the post-WW2 ‘Washington Consensus’ is about. Defanging democracy, removing the big questions from the public altogether. No ideology except the dominant ideology. The plebs can’t vote for the wrong thing if it’s never allowed on the ballot. That’s a big part of the reason Brexit was such a shock and why so many people voted against their own best interests because, outside of Scotland and N.Ireland, we hadn’t been offered a decision that could actually really change anything for decades. I know a few people, like my Dad, who voted Leave precisely because of that, because fuck every living prime minister who all lined up telling him to vote Remain. It’s hard not to sympathise with that sentiment. It’s also grim to think where we might end up down the line if the centrist plan to make sure that politics stays like this forever pans out. They can try and hold the gas in, but there will be burps, like Brexit, that shake the foundations of society and maybe bring the entire thing down on top of us. So thanks to politics getting back to normal you can have your Tory party with added lemon or with no added sugar, but whatever you choose, or don’t choose, you’re still getting 2 litres of carbonated […]

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CLIENT JOURNALISM

I had to leave some of the most obsequious client journalists out of this or else I’d be painting hacks for the rest of my life. This idea came from my hobby of adding examples of client journalism to the subtitles of a screenshot of Ri Chun-hee, the famous North Korean news presenter. BONUS CONTENT: Tom Harper, client journalist at The Sunday Times explaining what his job is.

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AFTERMATH

Photo: Tomas Dekeyser The election was clearly a proxy referendum on Brexit. The simple messaging of getting Brexit “done”, with the entire media establishment lined up to attack Labour and Corbyn, and years of extreme-centrist and blue-Labour wrecking actions, including the farce of the engineered antisemitism “crisis”, have led to a situation where we have an actual racist with racist policies as Prime Minister for the next 5 years. We lost because of Brexit. The left-wing policies in the Labour manifesto were, and remain, popular with voters. But the extreme centrists in Labour and the media want to pretend this was a rejection of compassionate, left-wing policies. If anything it was a rejection of Labour’s policy of a 2nd referendum on Brexit, which centrists now forget they had demanded. Ironically the same people who said Labour were unelectable because of the racism of 0.01% of its members are now advocating Labour become more racist in order to be more electable. The voters rejected Labour’s 2nd referendum at this election, they also rejected the centrism of the Liberal Democrats. Anyone arguing that a more “moderate” leader would have defeated Tory Brexit-hysteria have to explain the failure of the Lib Dems first, and the explicit swing from Labour to the Brexit party. The fact is that any Labour leader to the left of Blair would have also been monstered by the press. That they were able to demonise a kind, vegan, lifelong anti-racist campaigner as “literally Hitler” shows the power and cynicism at play against us. For the sake of the marginalised, the sick, and poverty stricken in this country, for the sake of the environment, for the sake of the thousands of innocents UK bombs obliterate overseas, we cannot allow neoliberal pro-war centrists like Jess Phillips and Tom Watson to wrestle […]

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YEMEN

These posters I drew have started appearing on the underground thanks to Special Patrol Group. They were inspired by Jeremy Hunt talking about us sending aid to Yemen to deal with the consequences of the bombs we sold to drop on Yemen.A lot of the weapons we sold to Saudi Arabia were made by MBDA, which is a missile company co-owned by Airbus and BAE Systems.As well as the thousands killed in the US/UK backed war in Yemen, the naval blockade by Saudi Arabia is causing a famine the UN has described as the deadliest in decades, and that 8 million people are “right on the brink of famine”. The US has dispatched ships to reinforce the blockade.The Saudis rely on UK and US support for the bombing campaign, we have military personnel over there picking targets, processing intelligence, refuelling and rearming planes. The British military has also been training Saudi troops to fight in Yemen and teaching battlefield tactics to Saudi officers.The UK sending £4 million of aid is pointless while we still support and encourage the causes of that famine. We need to end our support for this war and put and end to the blockade immediately. 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪 #Subvertising #ArmsTrade #Military

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