Neasdenburg Rally closing address
This week’s set of If… cartoon strips by Steve Bell drew to a close today:
I don’t know if he’ll have changed anyone’s mind about voting for Boris, but he’s certainly kept those of us who already weren’t voting for him entertained all week.
April 11th, 2008 at 01.18
It will be interesting to see how the Evening Standard fill their front page each day once Boris is Mayor.
April 11th, 2008 at 07.09
These cartoons are offensive to Jews and in extremely bad taste. Is this the level to which the Kennites feel they need to descend?
April 11th, 2008 at 07.58
Boris has been offensive to pretty much anyone he’s turned his column on in the past. I don’t see that this piece of tongue-in-cheek humour is anything like as offensive. It’s also quite tedious when one person claims to speak for all Jews. I should imagine that there are plenty of Jews - Nicky Gavron perhaps? - who were please by these cartoons.
April 11th, 2008 at 17.41
They are offensive to Jews, to Boris Johnson and to the Evening Standard. Substitute some Arabic and some Imams and these cartoons would provoke death threats.
April 11th, 2008 at 19.04
Surely the target of the cartoons is Boris and the Nazis? Not quite sure how anybody could spin them as being offensive to Jews. Unless seeing an imaginary Boris referring to Jewish people is offensive of course.
April 11th, 2008 at 21.41
Making a joke out of Nazism is completely offensive. So is “Judens … All unite Behind Boris” . And ‘Neasdenburg Rally’. Do you need it spelled out? I challenge anyone to find this funny. The bottom line is that the Left hates it when the masses threaten to oppose what it thinks is good for them - like re-electing Livingstone. A bad taste set of cartoons for a bad taste soon-to-be-yesterday’s Mayor.
April 12th, 2008 at 00.21
Better throw out my copy of ‘Allo ‘Allo then.