Congrats to cartoonist Steve Bell who won the award for political cartoon of the year for a cartoon that sums up better than words ever can the situation Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have got the economy into (link below) as they are stranded in a river of brown, smelly stuff.

Not only does the cartoon bring home the realities of attempts to get us out of the financial crisis by restarting the borrow and spend cycle that got us into it, it reminds us of the fundamental truth contained in the words allegedly spoken by “Lord” Fatty Falconer to Tony blair a few years ago.

“We’re fucked, I’m fucked, you’re fucked, we’re all fucked. Legend has it that Blair asked how fucked we were to which Fatty replied, “We’re fucking fucked,” but this has never been confirmed.

Falconer’s assessment would still be right had it been made about the financial meltdown and not the debacle in Iraq. Worse still, not only are we fucked, with the value of the pound in freefall most of us are not able to even afford to take a few days break in Furngirola before topping ourselves or filing for bankruptcy. Having said that, fatsally and I have noticed a certain chirpiness in our Dear Old Mum’s demeanour recently. her generation thrive on adversity of course and are looking forward to digging for victory and doing The Lambeth Walk at the bus stop.

With the seriousness of the situation in mind our editorial meeting this morning decided it is time Boggart Blog stopped dicking about and went in for some serious political analysis. With Labour up shit creek and Cameron’s Clowns loking increasingly less attractive, after watching the TV drama The Devil’s Whore we decided to campaign for a hung parliament.

Oliver Cromwell’s idea of a tortured and beheaded parliament would be much more satisfying but with so many politically correct namby – pambies around these days to protest at the perceived persecution of any minority hanging the buggers is probably as far as we can push it.

Cartoon: Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling: Up Shit Creek