Slowly crawling out of my rut and putting pen and paint on paper again.
I LOVE DEMOCRACY ME
All those years of urgent screeching by centrists about being ‘politically homeless’ and they finally got what they wanted, the left crushed out of political life, and all three major parties offering nothing more than moderately different flavours of the exact the same thing: neoliberalism, crackdowns, more cops, fewer nurses, ongoing-austerity and constant boot-licked fealty to the worst and cruellest opinions bellowed out daily by the Mail and Sun.
But this is, at the heart of it, what neoliberalism and the post-WW2 ‘Washington Consensus’ is about. Defanging democracy, making it palatable to capital and removing the big questions from the public altogether. No ideology except the dominant ideology. The plebs can’t vote for the wrong thing if it’s never allowed on the ballot.
That’s a big part of the reason Brexit was such a shock and why so many people voted against their own best interests because, outside of Scotland and N.Ireland, we hadn’t been offered a decision that could actually really change anything for decades.
I know a few people, like my Dad, who voted Leave precisely because of that, because fuck every living prime minister who all lined up telling him to vote Remain. It’s hard not to sympathise with that sentiment. It’s also grim to think where we might end up down the line if the centrist plan to make sure that poitics stays like this forever pans out. They can try and hold the gas in, but there will be burps, like Brexit, and Trump, that shake the foundations of society and maybe bring the entire thing down on top of us.
So thanks to politics getting back to normal you can have your Tory party with added lemon or with no added sugar, but whatever you choose, or don’t choose, you’re still getting 2 litres of carbonated full-fat Tory.
Prints of this available in my shop
GOD WILL NOT SAVE THE KING
Finally got the proper version of these God Will Not Save the King commemorative coins in time for the coronation. All the preorders went out already, but if anyone else wants one you can order here.
Still got some of the misprinted coins with a beheaded king on one side and ‘God Will Not Save the Queen’ on the other, they’re on a special coronation discount and available from the link above.
THE BIG ONE – 21ST-24TH APRIL
For the last few weeks I’ve been in the process of designing another Shell/Hell-based vehicle for an activist group who will be attending The Big One, a four day mass protest outside Westminster from 21st-24th April demanding urgent action on global warming.
The aim is to get 100,000 people to the protest, so I guess I’ll see you there!
COPS
The ACAB stickers I designed in 2021 are still getting about. Also available as an enamel badge, an embroidered patch and on t-shirts, including a new black tee version. All profits from the stickers and badges go towards the brilliant folk at Netpol: The Police Monitoring Network.
The ACAB stickers I designed in 2021 are still getting about. Also available as an enamel badge, an embroidered patch and on t-shirts, including a new black tee version. All profits from the stickers and badges go towards the brilliant folk at Netpol: The Police Monitoring Network.
DIGITAL BILLBOARD ENERGY EFFICIENCY STICKERS
Following on from the smaller stickers I made for double-sided digital ad spaces I made some extra large energy efficiency stickers for digital billboards. Obviously these are for research purposes only and I could never endorse anyone sticking these on digital billboards, but if you do see any stuck up in public please send me a photo (also for research purposes, I just love research!). Available here
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