Cartoons by Dormouse

Dormouse – a protected woodland species originating in Europe, Asia and Africa and an adopted native of East Anglia and North West England. A character in Alice in Wonderland, very fond of tea. Also artist, writer and diarist of the post-Brexit years, living with Long Covid.

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MPs urgently downing drinks in the Strangers bar, some several pints in. One surrounded by empty glasses is wearing a basebal cap branded 'Build Baby Build'. A minister, a woman with a dark bob haircut, wearing a Gestapo-style black overcoat, is loomjng ominously in the backgroyd holding a bottle. Caption text says 'What we need is an AI focus group'.

A drawing of a salad bowl full of meaningless slogans on lettuce leaves, including "strength through fairness" " radical reforms", "working people", "turning in on ourselves", "delivering" something "further, faster", etc. inscription on the bowl says ' Word Salad. Low in moral fibre'

A jar filled almost to the top with coins, with a label that says 'F-word-free February Swear Jar

Dr Death walks past a group of people who shout things like 'fake plague' and 'no masks'

Man in a wheelchair being forced by a person holding a whip to use a foot pedal operated energy creator to light a lightbulb

Sunak Braverman and Anderson as circus artists in front of a circus tent

A dog whistling Suella Braverman leads the sack race, followed by Rishi Sunak in an eat-out-to-peg-out bag and conservatives in sacks following behind. The ghost of Boris Johnson hovers in the background, with the words 'let the bodies pile high'

A woman doing a nazi salute with a whistle in her mouth, holding a dog on a lead taht has a coat saying 'free Tommy' the dog cocks his leg up at the Cenotaph and the poppies on it.

A woman in red robe, with a wahing line of undies behind her, and a bra as facemask. The folder she holds says 'minister for Integrity'

David Cameron inbetween bonfires in bins

A jumble of conservative PMs in a trolley, in front of the Covid memorial wall

Man resembling Lee Anderson MP up for auction, 30 pence is bid

A pile of bags, with a few feet sticking out.

a large eel and children playing and falling on the ground in the slippery stuff around the eel. Caption: Pin the tail on the jellied eel.

mr men figures on a wall. Little Miss Guided in a UK flag costume, Me Cleverly isyellow ('safe just means what I choose it to mean), Dr Death is blue and holds a sickle, and a red Mr Gullible tries to hide behind the wall

Two people chatting, one sits by a laptop, the other on the desk . They say: 'Well, at least the Prime Minister and the Rwanda policy have something in common: Nobody voted for them.'

two people behind a shopping trolley. 'I'm sure this used to be 500g and 50p less? Yeah, but it's now the Healthy range and it's 30% lighter!

An ill child on the settee, and two peole with him watching a TV screen that states 'Measles- national incident' One of the women says 'That'll be all the lockdown immunity debt they keep telling us about... ' The other says: Lockdown was FOUR YEARS ago Maureen!'

A person in a hospital bed, and a man standing next to the bed with a rwriting board. He says 'So if you took out that tube Mrs Walker, you would be able to pick fruit remotely, YES?'

A person in bed with a cat on her chest, watching a laptop. 'A Brexit ferry firm with no boats, a Covid PPE firm with no PPE, What do you think they'll call the Rwanda-bound airline with no planes?

A drawing of a hospital Accident and Emergency department full of people waiting. A reporter is interviewing a lady sitting at the edge. Text says: "Well, I don't know what I think of Mr Sunak's NHS plan. I've been sat here since 10am yesterday, and I can't hear the TV from here."

A drawing of two men talking over beer and crisps in a pub. Text says: "THey are not cutting the Income Tax, Graham. They are cutting National Insurance. What pays for your healthcare and your pension."

A drawing of two canvassers with leaflets, one in red and the other in yellow, talking in the steet as a passing postman gives a thumbs up. Text reads: "About as exciting as a rainy Tuesday... But can you imagine FIVE more years of THAT?"

Drawing of an elderly man coming in drenched from the rain holding remains of a soaked-through newspaper with just a bit of The Daily... title left. In the background his wife is making a cup of tea. Text says; Theat flipping rain! Now how will I know who to blame for it?

Drawing of woman in her 50's talking to an older woman reading a newspaper with headline that reads Rishi Targets the Saga Vote... Text above and below them reads: Who does he call the Saga Generation? The WASPI women or the OAPs who were all meant to die in 2020 to cut the pension bill?

Picture of woman talking on her phone at a desk piled with Thank You Teacher cards, P45 and the Long Covid Handbook. In the background are Happy 18th Birthday decodations. Text says: Yes, Jack was just deciding between medical associate and teaching apprenticeship. Then he got Covid too.

An emaciated woman crying in bed, surrounded by papers. Another woman in sitting on the edge of her bed, talking. Text says: I am sorry they rejected your PIP, Sue, I really am. But at least there'll be Special Olympics in 2031

drawing of a woman pulling out a boys tooth using a string tied to a door handle. Text says ...by people who are, you know, not dentists...

Drawing of a woman rifling though boxes on a table talking to a woman sitting down and knitting. Text says 'I just can't find my cigarette paper! -Have you looked between Tory and Labour benefits rhetoric?'

A drawing of two men, sitting on the sofa with their lotttery tickets, talking. Text says 'But imagine if you actually won 10 million...' 'I could be as racist as I like'

A drawing of a red-faced man wearing a colander on his head talking to woman who working through a pile of election leaflets on a dining table. Text says 'They said it was a health and safety requirement for all Reform candidates now. In case the party drops us.'

Drawing of a man sitting at a table with two children, talking to a woman in nurse's uniform who is putting on her coat by the door. Text says 'Can you remind me, are we middle class lefties or a working class family?'

A picture of a man, litterpicking, and a woman dogwalker talking, as she puts a bag of dog litter in the bin. A yellow and brown river flows behind them. Text says 'So, no airline will fly them, and the houses got sold off. It's like this Rwanda thing is really all about not having a court to sue them over sewage'

A minister is talking to a reporter at a desk, above which are displayed posters for Dentistry, featuring the tooth fairy, Education, featuring an illustration of the proverb 'Spare the rod, spoil the child' and a warning poster with text 'Beware of the wind of change" featuring a face stuck in a gurning expression. Behind the minister is a barrel of rotten apples. His quote text says 'Why do they need healthcare? And apple a day keeps the doctor away!'

drawing of a bunch of people huddled around a Commons bench, one reading papers marked 'Top Secret, Final Rwanda Plan". Dialogue text above them says 'What does it say? What does it say?' 'We go on losing MPs until there are just enough if us left to fit into RIshi's helicopter and fly to Rwanda with 1.8 million each...'

An empty suit standing in a proclamation pose. Text says 'I shall heal the sick by declaring them healthy. I shall make Rwanda safe by declaring it safe. And just watch me turn sewage into water!'

Drawing of a male police call handler speaking on a head set while typing. Text says 'You can describe him to me, M'am. But we can't send anyone over. All our officers are busy with that woman's house sale from ten years ago.'

A drawing of an insulated glass mug with legs of a tiny suited figure sticking of brown liquid, with marker rwiting 'Raw Sewage' on it. Text says: 'This government is committed to assisted dying by Letting Covid rip, East out to Help Out, NHS waiting lists, Benefit Sanctions, Stopping GPs signing sick people off work, taking away PIP, In-work poverty, Victorian diseases, Demonising disabled people in the media'

Drawing of a family with a mum, dad, boy, girl and dog standing on top of the white cliffs of Dover, with S.O.S. written on the ground, waving out to sea with two small boats ahead. Text says 'HELP! We are stuck on this island with BAD PEOPLE. It's a matter of life and death!'

And empty suit standing at a podium, the wall behind him covered in logos 'CSJ The Centre for Social Injustice'. Speech text reads 'It is a moral imperative to take away your sick leave and personal independence payment so we can have public money for our provate jets, contracts for mates and bungs to Rwanda'

A drawing of two homeless men, one in a wheelchair, the other holding a tattered newspaper, talking in front of a boarded-up precinct, as a young mother is pushing a wheelchair into a mouldy flat. Text says 'Three thousand quid they give you, and free housing for five years, if you move to Rwanda, mate. Here, I'll read it to you...'

A drawing of Larry, the Number 10 cat, reclining on a union flag patterned cusion, surrounded by interview microphones. Text says 'It is easy to see the Prime Minister's problem. He is on the wrong side of the door.'

A drawing of people putting out blue bins.

'A blue recycling bin stamped with text 'Greater London Authority' with two legs wearing a pair of heeled loafers sticking out bits of junk mail. On the ground lies a squashed red MAGA cap.

A drawing of ten people, eight in pantomime horse costume and two riding, labelled Councillor 1 through to Councillor 10, heading in random directions

Shreds of a short-trousered suit with a blue tie hang from a hangig rail above a pair of men's leather Oxford shoes with laces tied tigether. A man in a grey suit with a blue tie and a woman in a blue dress stand either side of it, clapping. Text says 'Your attire, your Imperial Majesty, looks magnificent!'

A picture of two men, one standing with a worried expression, holding a folded newspaper, with a headline reading 'Reform might be about to wipe out the Tories' and another sitting, typing in front of a screen. Text says 'Perhaps we should have kept on being the Torygraph instead of trying to Reform?'

A drawing of an empty suit holding a burst bag of marbles, increasing numbers of which are now piled on the floor: one, marked with a letter H, dropping into a pile of 64 already there, 11 lying abandoned, 7 in an independent heap, 3 have rolled off to the left and two to the far right.

A female figure wearing a pantomine costume decorated with text 'War on woke. Your country needs you. ...ON SENSE' and wearing un uptirned paintbuket on her hand standing on a ladder in the clouds with a paint roller, trying to pain over the rainbow coloured Northern Lights

A drawing of an elderly lady in an armchair talking to an empty matching one next to her as they sit in front of the TV. Text says 'Oh, the poor little man! I hope he gets hung out to dry'

A group of Tory politicians huddling together looking agitated. Text reads 'Outrageous! Some entitled creep deciding for the rest of us what to do'

A drawing of an empty suit landed on his pride in a puddle, having slipped on a pile of loose marbles that are now rolling all over the place. In the foreground, a dormouse stands on a piece of paper, inkpen at the ready

A drawing of short trousered suit hung out to dry in the pouting rain. A bag of marbles is falling off the drying rack, shedding marbles. Two marbles are falling towards a pile of 74 already on the ground, 11 are rolling around in a puddlle, 5 lie on an independent heap, 3 have rolled off to the left and 2 have rolled off to the far right.

An empty suit speaking to a circle of empty chairs draped in high-vizibility jackets.

Drawing of a wet short-trousered suit lying in a puddle with a pile of marbles and Larry the Cat knocking the marbles one by one into a drain.

Alt text: A woman with a teenage boy is opening the front door to two large men in military uniform, one of them reading from a clipboard. Text says 'We have it here that young Liam is old enough to serve as a Tory MP'

Drawing of a miniature empty suit, dripping water, its shoelaces tied together, goose-stepping under people's feet. Text says 'I am coming for your kids!'

A drawing of three rats on a sinking ship named 'Integrity' carrying a dead cat, whose tappy stripes spell 'National Service', while the rest of the rats jump off the ship it into the sea

A girl at a desk on a laptop talking to a man standing, holding a pile of books. Text says: ' "Rip-off degrees?" -He means P.P.E. This is what you study if you want to rip off the country'

A tiny empty suit is standing on top of a litter bin, dripping water, proclaiming. Text above says 'Pensioners! I will make you 28 pence richer' Two older ladies, one walking a dog, are walking away, chatting. Text says: 'A tuppenny short of Lee Anderson, isn't he'

Drawing of a senior female Conservative dressed in blue shown speaking on the TV with segment of subtitle text that says 'and we are cutting taxes and'. In front of it, a female figure in a nightdress is slumped on the bed, her hands turning blue and dropping a mug of hot drink and a mobile phone with a call id 'GP' on its screen. Text above it says 'You are caller number 67 in the queue...

An empty short-trousered suit with shoelaces tied together stands speechifying in a puddle. Text says 'Me. Me, me, me, me, me. Me. Me. Mm-e-e-e-e!'

A drawing of a lady vicar hanging garlic inside a front door, with a basket of wooden stakes set next to her, and an elderly gentleman bringing up large bottles of holy water. Text says 'It's never so much about who you vote in. It's about who you keep out'.

Cartoon of a boat with letters 'SUN...K' painted on it, split in half and sinking into a sea of sewage, while rats are jumping off it and trying to swim away. A single suited hand is rising from the toxic waters. Text says 'We will stop you seeing your GP. We will force you to work when you are sick. We will punish you when you don't get better. Vote for us!'

An able bodied and disabled man talking on a sofa, next to a sleeping cat. Text says 'Thing is, I already work the hours I CAN work. They can tell me to apply for more jobs, but unless they magically cure me... you know...'

Alt text: "Drawing of a senior female Conservative dressed in blue shown speaking on the TV with a segment of subtitle text that says 'and we are cutting taxes and..' In front of it, a female figure in a nightdress is slumped on the bed, her hands turning blue and dropping a mug of hot drink and a mobile phone with a call id 'GP' on its screen. Text above it says 'You are caller number 67 in the queue...'

Drawing of London's Royal Albert Hall against a blue sky. Text says 'And we now go over to theRoyal Albert Hall, where the Prime Minister is performing a solo Sky Lament on the world's most miniature violin'

A white and tabby cat sitting in a blue litter tray lined with newspaper. Sections of newspaper text read 'The' '...graph' 'While lesser mortals... stayed at home... Princess Cathe... ALLISON PEARSON' 'More than 380,000 cancer patients have faced two-months waits since 2015'

Drawing of a man wearinga blue shirt and khaki green trousers falling off a chair and dropping a mug of coffee in front of a TV set. The TV screen shows a news reporter in the street talking into a microphone under a red banner saying 'Breaking News' Headline text below it says 'Reform UK candidate is NOT accused of racism'

A drawing of four angry-looking red-faced men stuck walking in a circle in a revolving door, the top sections of which are marked with text 'Reform, Conservatives, Reform, Conservatives' In the blue painted wall behind it is a locked fire door with a sign above it that says 'NO EXIT'

A cartoon of a young man talking to a band of politicians, one holding a guitar keyboard, one playing a miniature violin and two singing, while passers-by walk behind them with fingers stuck in ears or wearing headphones, one throwing a record in the bin. Text says 'And , like, nobody even appreciates out superb record!' Singing lyric text says around the singers says !I'm just a rich boy, Nobody loves me! He is just a rich bou from a ricj family...' Text behind a passer-by says 'I'd pay you to shut up!'

A young woman with short hair, dressed in a pink top and blue cardigan with a blue rosette, holding a rose gold mobile phone and an election leaflet with a slogan starting with 'Tough on Youth...' is talking to a standing man of whom are shown a part of a shirt and an arm holding a stack of blue election leaflets. Quote text above the woman says 'Sorry Jules, HQ just told us to stop campaigning. But could you be a darling and get us some orage paint?'

Pen drawing of an empty short-trousers suit with a blue tie, trying to walk with its shoelaces tied together, reaching out after someone out of the picture, who has dropped a some ten and twently pound notes that are flottering to the ground. Text says 'HOLD ON, just place the whole lot on me losing'

Drawing of a brown-haired man in a grey pinstripe suite, white shirt and pink tie talking on a mobile phone, credit card in hand. Text says 'WHat odds can you give us on a Reform double agent running this Tory election campaign?'

An ink drawing of hands trapping a tiny empty men's suit with a blue tie under a glass and sliding a sheet of paper underneath it

Drawing of a slimy shouty thing in a flat cap oozing green slime off a lectern that is marked with an arrow on a blue background pointing right, bearing an inscription 'PUB BORES FOR PATRIOTISM' Text around it says 'If you elect me, I will work hard for Kremlin-on-Sea'

Drawing of a person with a nasal oxygen cannula strapped into a chair with three straps labelled with words 'THREE PART SLOGAN' in Conservative party campaign colours. Above the person is a note with their name 'Welfare State' and text 'Do Not Resuscitate'. A blood transfusion tube injected into their arm turnst into a large dispenser from which a two pence coin drops into an envelope with text 'off National Insurance' In the background, a large pile of PPE is burning, going up into a smike cloud, marked with text '£1.4 billion'

A drawing of ill and injured people sitting in the A & E waiting room, an elderly man in a suit among them now a skeleton, with a detached skull lying in its lap. The TV monitor on the wall is showing the Prime Minister above a strapline with text 'Work makes you fre...' Text above the image says 'If you just stay alive long enough to vote for me, I will bribe you with tax cuts taken out of your disability benefits...'

A drawing of two women chatting, one of them putting on lipstick looking out, as into a mirror. Dialogue text says '- Wonder which couldty is safe for refugees fleeing a culture war? -We'll need a bigger boat.'

A girl in an orange dress sitting at a table chatting to a girl in a red crop top and green trousers, standing by the door, wheeling out a bin. Dialogue text says '-What bin is it today? -Doean't matter, it's BLUE'

Ink pen drawing of a leaking barrel containing rotten matter. A circular label on it has a fat arrow pointing right and text that says 'A FEW BAD APPLES'

A drawing of four people painting over a blue wall in red, yellow and green

Drawing of Larry the Downing Street Cat wearing a union flar bow tie digging and kicking away the last of loose marbles

A man sits on the bed brushing the hair of a woman who sits in bed, reading a newspaper. He says: "But they'd promised us change?" She replies "maybe they meant 'spare change' darling. Spare change.

A drawing of two men in T-shirts, one holding a brick, having dropped another brick on his foot, the other resting a foot on an upturned grown wheelie bin as he talks on a mobile phone. Text says 'No mate, we went to Stockport by mistake, and now all the trains back are cancelled'

A drawing of a large cookery book on a wooden bookstand with two apples, a pepper mill and an oil bottle in the foreground. Text on the illustrated book cover says 'The Complete HUNT's BOOK COOKERY. Includes favourites like Porkie Pies, Millionaire's Shortchange and Black Hole Gateau

A drawing of two women talking at the shop counter as a shopkeeper works the till. They are looking outside through the shop door where two men are passing by, one carrying an armful of bottles and cans. Dialogue text says; '- They aren't rioters, Bea, they are freedom fighters. - Yes, I can see them liberating some booze...'

Drawing of the UK chancellor pushing disabled people into a pit in the shape of £20 billion, and a yellow road leveller truck branded DWP rolls over them. In the foreground, a government advisor is reading a report on a clipboard with text that says 'REPORT long term sick must be made to seek work'. In the background, the work and pensions secretary is holding a banner with text that reads 'WORK MAKES YOU FREE'

A woman gardening, and the man lies in a garden chair woth the paper over his face. Paper says 'Tarmac melts in Bolton' The txt above them is 'it's all that hot air from the Tory leadership contest blowing up here, you know..

A sticking plaster over a big crack in the wall

cartoon showing a beahded overweight man dancing, seen from the back, and the head with a crown on laying on the floor. Text in the picture is 'let them buy kettles!'

A cartoon of a bas bottle with crushed people on the left and fat cats on the right

Liz Truss burning papers in a large bin.

the queen seen from the back, walking North over the country towards a rainbow

Queen Elizabeth walking over a silhouette of the country towards a rainbow seen from behind

two men standing by the body of a dead horse that is covered with a blanket. One of the men looks pensive, the other us using an umbrella to poke the horse, like a fencer would use a fence when fighting

picture of chaotic crowd in the back, and a womanin blue dress, upside down wth het head in the sand in the front

shows a woman sat on a settee, remote in her hand, with the cat next to her, and a man disappearing behind a door

several different hats going into a toilet bowl

Shows Elon Musk's head, with a grim expression on the face and a few blue feathers around the mouth

Shows and open fridge door and Boris Johnson stepping out of it with a crwon on his head

Shows a mother trying to hold back two young boys, and another young boy standing by a fancy dress show with a 50% Halloween sale. A man stands on the stairs outside the shop door, dressed in a clowns costume, saying "We're all out of Smarmy Sunaks, but you could have a Suella de Vil..."

A robin with a circular body, dancing merrily and holding a glass in one hand and a popper in the other.

wprking class people on the right with banners saying 'save our NHS' 'claps don't pay bills' 'heat or eat?' and a posh clothed chap dancing in the middle of the picture. The chap opens a box that releases a ghost, who shouts Bah Humbug. On the left bags of money and a fat cat on top of them.

cartoon of Sunak dancing, and the text 'Come with me, and you'll be in a world of pure imagination... and you'll see that we're halving inflation... around him. In the background banners saying thigns like teachers Strike, Rail workers strike, support postal workers strike, claps don't pay bills, NHS, Border force strike, wages not words. On the top right of the picture a flying pie with wings.

mountains of smelly hot dirt at the back, named PPE Fraud; Public sector contracts, tax havens, Brexit. left before the haven a red Hoover called Rishi. Rishi oover hoovers up everything on the bottom right: NHS, disabled people with oxygen mask or in wheelchair, school children, sport, PIP

top: I don't think we CAN stop them, you know.... Left of the picture blue water and two small boats with people in them, leaving the shore. To the right the cliffs of Dover, with a sign saying 'Ypu are now leaving the United Kingdom' Two Borderforce staff are watching the leaving boats, one is running after them shouting 'Wait for me!'

woman on the left in pink sweater, talking on a mobile phone, saying "No, Frank's leg is still broken, we strapped it up. Yes, it's called VIRTUAL WARDS now..." On the right a balding man with glasses in stipy socks and green trousers, reading a newspaper that says 'no more NHS waiting lists' as headline. The man has a broom strapped to his right leg, attached with a teatowel.

cartoons on empty Sunak promises numbers 2-5. For alt-text per cartoon please go to the page and click on each cartoon seperately

top right a clock with the hands at 12 past 10. bottom right a row of children sitting behind each other in class struggling to finish an assignment. On the left the text: 12 years of Tory government, X £40bn/year Brexit loss of tax revenue, X £400m/week Brexit loss of growth, – average of £25-35bn/year x(tax evasion + tax avoidance), – NHS staff losses/year (40,000 nurses + 20,000 doctors), X 200,000 Covid deaths, + 2-3m post Covid disabilities, + 500,000 now too ill to work, - £15,000 person wage stagnation, +£6bn/2years Brexit food cost rise, +£900/year energy bill rise x 5 promises worth 0 each = ...

In the middle the sea, and a sinking head with the writing 'The good ship integrity' on the forehead. to the left Boris and a mate, blowing on the head. To the right a woman with blond hair putting a bra on te forehead with the letters PPE on it. Underneath in the water in big letters 'sleaze' . The water is dirty. banknotes are flaoting around. A small Sunak-like person stands on the forehead, pointing with his left hand and saying 'Budget better!' on the shore on the right a group of people holding banners, with slogans like 'NHS SOS' 'Claps don't pay bills' 'Suppourt teachers' 'Ambulance needs you'. They all are kept back by a low wall, sayinf 'Fair pay for nurse'

On the left a man in a suit, with a whip behind his back. He is looking at a man in a wheelchair who is moving foor pedals to power up a lightbulb standing on a large battery empowerd by cogs. The word on the battery is 'growth'

Zahawi sitting writing on a sheet of paper, the text starts 'Dear Prime Minister, thank you for your kind words.. Above the person, the text Scoopy-Doo and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you On the bottom of the picture it says 'Meddling Press'

A man and a dog on the sofa. The man shouts 'make us a cuppa love, Fiona's Antique Views Roadshow is on!'

A collage of four posters. Top left: Today- masks are so then a dinosaur drawing, and under it 'MP votes against 'authoritarian' mak mandate. Top right a dinosaur at a podium, 'authoritarian' and Let's criminalise Protest Bill. Bottom left a dinosaur being filmed- text: No, you missed a spot, right a bit, right buttock, that's it.. And bottom right: Today -Just in- and a sign of 2 foot distance between people

A large prehistoric-looking animal chewing on a person. The porint on the animal is 1922 Torysaurus Rex. The text next to the animal says 'learn to live with Covid'

A museum setting, a Dinosaur skeleton on the left and a schoolclass on the right, with the attendant pointing to the skeleton and saying 'This one we affectionately call Sir Graham'. The sign by the skeleton says 'Torysaurus Rex'

Match Of The Day setting with a football for chair, and three turnips as commentators

A row of people walking toward the Covid memorial wall on the right of the picture, They all wear facemasks. Above them a flag saying 'herd immunity' in the grass under the people a coffin with 'RIP 2020', and banners saying Lessons will be learnt and Covid-19 public enquiry. Right bottom im the grass a tombe stone saying RIP 2021 and someone is crushed under it who holds a sign saying NHS 2022. The row of people goes toewards a wall with more people and covid virus particles. Above them banners saying 'Brexit' and other slogans that are only partly visible.

a person with their head in the sand, virus particles floating above them and next to them a sign saying - stay alert, make sure the virus does not see you

A pink cake with a pair of handcuffs on it, as well as a golden spoon and other ornate gold.

A policeman with his arm wide and mouth open, speaking to a woman who is handcuffed. He says "There were legitimate concers that an officer would be spooked by a rape alarm and bolt..."

cartoon shows a puppet theatre on the left, with the sign 'the 30p Lee & Cruella show' It looks out on a village surrounded by a red wall (The Watford Gap). writing on the ground is 'where the wildlings are' and people are saying thigs like ;kids just need a good caning' 'starve those disbled shirkers' 'bring back hanging' 'bread and circusses' 'torpedo the boats' and 'we want war on woke'

A clergyman places a crown on the rules head. The clergyman says 'The illegal immigration bill is morally unacceptable' The rules says 'Yes, it's appalling'

A selection of food items 'Ye olde happy British fish', 'fresh pollocks', 'boatsman pickle', 'stuffed irchins', reduction of workman rights', 'something very fishy' . No free schoolmeal vouchers accepted.

A hand (whose owner wear a suit) putting a jar of 'class priviledge' on a shelf. other jars contain: selfishness, nepotism, greed, prejudice, poverty, preserve of the rich, injustice, conservative victorian values, ignorance, private profit, bigotry, corruption...

A mast ship titled "The Good Ship Integrity" is sinking as it sails into a wave that bears the text "Live With Covid" and drips with virus. The ship is leaking sewage and features a figurehead shaped like Suella Braverman, a backfiring cannon titled Gerrymander, a washing machine laundering money and three masts: one fill of bras labelled PPE, one with Rishi Sunak clinging to a giant union flag umbrella, and one with brown shirts for sails, featuring the National Conservative slogan: Faith, Family, Flag. The Flag carries an acronym Nat C.

A person walking a tightrope between a red and a blue wall.

A Roald Dahl style scene with a school mistress holding a young girl up by a braid of her hair

brown coloured water and more brown discharge coming from a pipe. An arm and had stick out of the fluid see. Text above: I'll win the next election and stay on as PM!

a vulture morphing out of a brown splodge

A round teapot on feet, spouting slurry on both sides and with a blond woman's head coming from the top. A woman with two small chalidren stand by, dripping with muck. Text: We get it. We get the dividends, you pay the bill'. text on the teapot is Water UK

A festive party with people dancing and celebrating on dead bodies, next to a tomb stone that say 226,196 dead of Covid.

A little dormouse holding a pen, in front of a cup of coffee

cartoon drawings of Idle jack the Kipper, King Brat shouting witch hunt!, Captain Quintessential 'Brexit is served', Alderman's Freeport, Dame Aimless Priti Evil, Dodge the Hairdresser, and Larry the cat. Text in the middle: What Dickington! the pantomime paved with honours.

A woman's legs, she wears blue dress and blue heeled shoes. Walking away from us over a red carpet with dark blue lines to the sides. She leaves a few crumpled bits of paper behind on the floor, that read 'right to protest'.

Boris ascending to Heaven as a large balloon, with his adoring fanclub cheering him on

A man's head, looking unhappy, carved out of stone, in a brown surrounding. There is a resemblance to a former prime minister, which is of course pure coincidence. text under the rock: Erudite (in geol.) fossilised rock of obscure organic origin. occasionally excavated from Westminster sewers (Ref daily mail, 16th June 2023)

A church scene with a clergyman preaching to the people sitting on the benches, and a person in a wheelchair sat at the end of the curch with the chair turned away from the altar

A man sitting by a computer, typing away. Text above him: ,They went to the sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to the sea..' On the door on the right: 'There was an old man of Vienna, Who lived upon tincture of Senna'. On the left 'Linden's list of Google gaming - Must mention 1/ Fridge 2/ wine 3/ Cheese 4/ Bus 5/ Titanic , With a dead tabby cat with it's legs in the air under the picture. Underneath it all: 'There once was a man with a column, A topic of which was quite solemn, But he couldn't steer clear, Of old Edward Lear, Or plagiarisms, as we call'em.

cartoon of Trump ripping up a voting ballot paper

a trolley full of Downing Street personalities in front of a wall covered in red hearts

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cartoon of Boris Johnson, holding a large botthe of champagne with the label 'bamboozled', wearing a santa outfit, saying 'but I got all the big calls right', standing on a fallen gravestone that says 'RIP we had a good innings'

Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol was published 180 years ago today on 19th December 1843. Here is a dormouse cartoon of Ebenezer Sunak being visited by the ghost of Jacob Rees-Marley.

A flying trump with a cape that says MAGAm wearing a nappy and a Superman shierd on his chest, Bullets are bouncing off his chest

Liz Truss dropping a bucket load of red, white and blue onto a red couch. Sunak put his hands in front of his eyes.

shelves full of wine bottles with one pint-sized British bottle in the middle. Reduced from £11 per 750ml (normal sized bottle) to £10.99 for the pint bottle (568ml)

A black and white drawing of flooded Britain with Covid particles in the air, children collapsed on a school bank and someone pushing a person in the wheelchair. The person pushing the chair holds a banner that says 'work sets you free' On the right a tombstone saying RIP 1/4 million people.

Drawing of a vessel made of a leaking colander with a sail that says 'work sets you free'. It is sailing into a big Covid wave.

A picture of Suella Braverman shouting at Saint Peter who is holding the keys to the gates of heaven that rise behind him surrounded by angels

A group of cross-party ultra-conservative politicians, with tin foil hats and without, huddled around a laptop, composing an urgent letter. Text reads 'Dear Health Secretary, There have been all these excess deaths, and we can't figure out why, since 2020. So either it's the vaccines, or the elephants have bolted and its turtles all the way down. We demand to know!'

A woman talking to a man on the sofa, who is reading a copy of The Godfather. Text says 'And then he said the mob was trying to tear as apart. - That's unusually honest of him'

A drawing of two businessmen standing in front of a foodbank stocked with foodstuff, packs nappies and boxes of essentials. Text says 'These food banks are now so popular, we should be buying shares'

A giant evil-looking plant with a tooth-filled mouth and venus trap tendrils rising out of a pot.

A man kneeling on a cushion before the king, who is knighting him with a sword while asking a question. Text says 'Remind you, are you the one being knighted for your money or for your misogyny?'

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Drawing of an ill woman in a hospital bed hooked up to machines and an IV drip. A male assessor in a blue suit and a red tie stands next to her, taking notes on a clipboard. Text says 'So, Mrs Walker, about your duty to work...'

Crazy cat lady: a woman with long dark hair sitting in a pink armchair with a red mug of coffee and a green book, surrounded by eight cats in various poses, and a paw protruding from under the armchair to grab some of her knitting

1. Island of Strangers. Cartoon by dormouse

2. Dish of the day, by dormouse

3. Bored of Peace - by dormouse

4. Welcome to February

February
Swear jar

5. Plague year

6. Your country needs you

7. Soon to be homeless tent

8. The sack race

9. hate march

10. Ministerial Portfolio

11. Patron saint of lost causes

Patron saint of lost causes

12. The trolley scaled

13. EnTicement

14. let the bodies pile high

15. Jellied Eel

16. RwandaBill - The Humpty-Dumpty-Principle

17. 1- Nobody's PM

18. 2- Healthy price raises

19. 3- Lockdown immunity

20. 4- PIP assessments

21. 5- Empty decisions

22. 6- A&E

23. 7- Cuts for the people

24. 8- Wet weather

25. 9- Weather warning

26. 12- Saga vote

27. 13 - Demijobs

28. 14. Disability Action Plan

29. 15- Not dentists

30. 18- Cigarette paper

31. 19- the national lottery

32. 21- Colander beanie

33. 22- Middle class lefties

34. 23- Dog muck

35. 23- Dept for oldfashioned beliefs

36. A Cunning Plan

37. Miracles

38. 24- Putting women first

39. Doctor Death.

40. Mayday!

41. 42. 25- Rwanda deal

43. Larry the Cat on the PM's problem

44. 26- blue bin day

45. Sadiq Khan, May the Fourth be with you!

46. Reform Horsemen of the Apocalypse

47. Shreds of dignity

48. Taking a dive

49. 50. The Minister for Common Sense

51. 27- The Speech

52. 28- The Tories are revolting

53. The loose marbles win

54. 76 Conservative MPs no longer standing, 5 sitting as independents, 11 sacked or resigned, 3 have gone over to Labour and 2 to Reform & Renew.

55. All vacant

56. 29 Dear Larry finds a pile of loose marbles in his street- and batters them all into the drain.

After Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom capping today's toll, from the start of Rushi Sunak's reign, as at 8:45pm tomight, 78 Tory MPs are not standing for General Election 5 sitting as independents, 11 sacked or resigned, 3 have gone over to Labour and 2 to Reform & Renew.

57. National Service

58. The Great Dictator

59. The Dead Cat

60. Politics, Philosophy and Economics

61. 62. 30 Cutting taxes and all that

63. Sorry-not-sorry

64. FPTP

65. The Conservatives

66. Benefits reform

67. Cutting taxes

68. 69. Lesser mortals

70. Breaking News

71. Revolving Door

72. Superb Record

73. Desperate times

74. 75. Betting odds

76. First Past The Post

77. Shame

78. 79. Up in Smoke

80. Accident and Emergency

81. Culture War

82. Bad Eggs

83. Blue Bin Day

84. Rotten Barrel

85. Will of the people, 2024

86. The Last of Loose Marbles

87. Promised

88. Patriots

89.

90.

91. 92. The £20bn budget black hole

93. Fighting tooth and claw - Image by Dormouse

Fighting tooth and claw

94. Text in hieroglyphics reads "If you don't know your arse from your elbow, don't show it, man!" - image by Dormouse

Cabinet Jacob Rees-Mogg

95. Hot-air cartoon by Dormouse

96. Pot and Kettle - cartoon by Dormouse

A pot and a kettle arguing

97. Sticking plaster - cartoon by Dormouse

A sticking plaster over a big crack in the wall

98. Final-flourish. cartoon by Dormouse

99. Blood and gas. Cartoon by Dormouse

100. When there is nothing left to heat with. Cartoon by Dormouse

101. Rest in Peace. Drawing by Dormouse

102. Rest in Peace. Picture by Dormouse

103. Rest in Peace

an old lady walking over the map of Great Britain towards a rainbow

104. Flogging the dead horse. Cartoon by Dormouse

105. Departure. Cartoon by Dormouse

106. A little turbulence. Cartoon by dormouse

107. Be quick.. Cartoon by dormouse

108. Throwing the hats in the ring (leadership election). Cartoon by dormouse

109. Spitting_feathers. cartoon by dormouse

110. Back from the cold. cartoon by dormouse

111. Halloween costumes. picture by dormouse

112. Round Robin. cartoon by dormouse

113. Ghost of Christmas present. cartoon by dormouse

114. promise 1- Halving inflation: Pure Imagination. cartoon by dormouse

115. promise 3- reducing debt. cartoon by dormouse

116. promise 5- stop the small boats. Cartoon by dormouse

117. promise 4 Cutting NHS waiting lists. cartoon by dormouse

118. promises 2-5. cartoons by dormouse

119. promise 2- growing the economy cartoon by dormouse

120. Good Ship Integrity. Cartoon by dormouse

121. Britain Needs You. cartoon by dormouse

122. Scoopy Doo. cartoon by dormouse

123. Antique Views Roadshow. cartoon by Dormouse

124. Tory freedoms? Cartoon by Dormouse

125. Learn to live with Covid- the Torysaurus, Cartoon by Dormouse

126. Sir Graham. Cartoon by Dormouse

127. We could use turnips... Cartoon by Dormouse

128. Long Covid. cartoon by dormouse

129. Stay alert - cartoon by Dormouse, used with permission

a person with their head in the sand, virus particles floating above them and next to them a sign saying - stay alert, make sure the virus does not see you

130. The Handcuffs of Overreach. Cartoon by dormouse, used with permission

131. Public Order. cartoon by dormouse, with permission

132. Red Wall as seen from Tufton Street. cartoon by dormouse, with permission

Red Wall as seen from Tufton Street. cartoon by dormouse, with permission

133. The Church and The Crown. cartoon by dormouse

134. Conservative Masterchef. cartoon by dormouse

Conservative Masterchef. cartoon by dormouse

135. Conservatives conserving. cartoon by dormouse

Conservatives conserving. cartoon by dormouse

136. Mayday! We have a hull breach. cartoon by dormouse

Mayday! We have a hull breach. cartoon by dormouse

137. social conservatism. The Tightrope. cartoon by dormouse

social conservatism. The Tightrope. cartoon by dormouse

138. Social Mobility Tsar. cartoon by dormouse

Social Mobility Tsar. cartoon by dormouse

139. Why, it's all going swimmingly. cartoon by dormouse.

140. Vulture culture. cartoon by dormouse

Vulture culture. cartoon by dormouse

141. Turnip Sandwich. cartoon by dormouse

cartoon by dormouse

142. Water U pay. cartoon by dormouse

Water U pay. cartoon by dormouse

143. Rishi on a dishy. cartoon by dormouse

Rishi on a dishy. cartoon by dormouse

144. Millions live with Long Covid. cartoon by dormouse

145. Dormouse doodling. cartoon by dormouse

146. Honours Panto. cartoon by dormouse

147. Motion of Regret. cartoon by dormouse, with permission

148. Ipso- as useful as a chocolate teapot in dealing with press complaints and protecting the vulnerable in the press. Cartoon by dormouse, with permission.

149. cartoon by dormouse

150. Erudite- the new columnist in a national daily newspaper. Cartoon by dormouse.

151. cartoon by dormouse, with permission

152. After a while I realised that I'd probably read too much into Boris Johnson's Saturday Mail column, and that he'd actually just rewritten Edward Lear's "The Jumblies" in prose. By dormouse, with permission

153. cartoon by dormouse, used with permission

154. A trolley full of Downing Street

A trolley full of Downing Street Covid Inquiry witnesses rolling past the Covid Memorial Wall image by Dormouse. permission to use

155. A woke-a-naut carrying a death spaniel, a turnip latte, a copy of the Guardian and a plate of tofu - cartoon by Dormouse, used with permission

156. British Grate. cartoon by dormouse

157. bamboozled - cartoon by Dormouse

cartoon of Boris Johnson, holding a large botthe of champagne with the label 'bamboozled', wearing a santa outfit, saying 'but I got all the big calls right', standing on a fallen gravestone that says 'RIP we had a good innings'

158. Ebenezer Sunak being visited by the ghost of Jacob Rees-Marley

Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol was published 180 years ago today on 19th December 1843. Here is a dormouse cartoon of Ebenezer Sunak being visited by the ghost of Jacob Rees-Marley.