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Each government has been a challenge, each leader sillier and more ruinous than
the last. But even cartoonists crave a bit of boring earnestness sometimes
For the past five weeks people have repeatedly said to me, “You must be really
busy!” I’ve had to explain that elections aren’t like that; in fact, from the
point of view of cartoonists, they’re boring. The only real fun comes when the
wheels fall off the party machines and their careful choreography collapses into
farce. But in this election even the Tories’ serial weapons-grade balls-ups are
becoming a bore, serving merely to remind me of the universal truth that reality
will always, always be weirder than anything satire could think up in a million
years.
That said, in the empty hours of this interminable death watch while we’ve
waited for the Tory tumbril finally to trundle to the guillotine, I’ve been
reflecting on the past 14 years, and how the worst government of my lifetime has
been succeeded five times by one that was even worse.
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