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Thread #164605   Message #3972236
Posted By: Steve Shaw
19-Jan-19 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: Brexit #2
Subject: RE: Brexit #2
Incidentally, parodying and ridiculing politicos is a time-honoured thing. I recall John Major depicted with underpants outside his top pants and John Gummer as a carbuncle on Maggie Thatcher's nose. Steve Bell exaggerated George Osborne's nose-cleft out of all proportion and Tony Blair was a stary-eyed maniac, but only via one eye. John Redwood was the alien with no nipples and Gordon Brown became a gross caricature of himself with all his grumpy features exaggerated. Dubya had a mouth like a trumpet mouthpiece and Trump is bright orange, etc etc. All that is part of the game. But guess what. Sexism and racism absolutely aren't.