Merde-Hokel

 

Forget Sarkozy, baby, now we are in the Merde together

Usurio, I presume

 

Usurio of Lloyds at the Bankers' Cabal. Is that Lord HSBC beside him?

Beauty contest

 

Taro Aso emerging from the crypt to assume his seat in cabinet

In Japan the LDP have returned from the dead

 

Over in Great Britain, the unspeakably undead Michael Gove

These are the contestants, take your pick

Hate Speech Engine

Is it an idiot lord somehow transported from Restoration Blackadder

No, it's Geert Wilders (I'm not so sure actually) on an incendiary speaking tour - cause at home the Dutch know his party suck-,  carrying his weapon against Islam with him

He must be Obeid!

Heads will roll, down at ICAC. Former minister for mines -Ian MacDonald's head is spinning. No more brothels! no more LUNCH! Directly to gaol!

Down on Eddie Obeid's farm, some ministers were more equal than others.

"Let me do the talking" - he's as brazen as ever in the witness box - "all a misunderstanding - a little accountancy to avoid people's envy, that's all"

Valiant Prince Hal

 

 This guy never hides in a bunker. It's Prince Harry, in a Budgie the helicopter Christmas special

I'm a warrior, and a deep thinker - I'm into game theory. I think my brother might be jealous.

Not to mention, pretty good wiv me thumbs

 

 

check those lovely bombs

 

Over in Las Vegas, Harry is remembered at the strip billiards world championship

UK coalition - a marriage made in Heaven

 

"Do what I say Bitch": Dave Cameron and Nick "I'm teddible" Clegg have a lovers' tiff

 

No need for these gay bishops to live in sin. Tony Blair will make honest men of them

 

Jar of Clegg  - souvenir of 2012

 

Nick Clegg, doctor of divinity, opens up on his personal life:

"Some days when we're bored we have teddible rows, then we kiss and make up - what a love life!"

Lifestyle of a Welfare Queen

Jenny Macklin, fresh from Andrew Robb's hair transplant surgeon (is she the donor?) is now stealing Hairshirt Harry's standup material

$35 a day is for welfare queens

I could live on $5 a day

housing - got one thanks

transport - Comcar etc - $0 a day

food - plenty of that in this place

Communications  -got my ministerial mobile

$5 a day is plenty for toys for thekids

Wolfgang Schaeuble

Gentlemen don't pay taxes

Fresh on the heels of Bob Diamond's stunning string of performances at the Libor Club see the Barclay twins, proprietors of the London Daily Telegraph - the voice of the establishment - as a pair of dancing condoms  from the island of Sark

 

They are puttin' on the Ritz, At the Ritz!

Set in a British-administered tax haven on one of the lesser moons of Gallifrey, Gentlemen don't pay taxes, Gentlemen do wear ties is a comedy of manners, a light introduction to modern business mores

After me:

"We're not takin' the piss!
We're not bein' SARK-y"

Stop looking at my wife

Prince Willy says, stop looking at my wife, the future queen of England, Kate Middleton

 

Have you never seen a royal coupling?

Offshore vehicles for the unemployed

Ian Duncan-Smith, British minister for transferring public pension funds to crony corporations, and post-Soviet billionaire Rinat Akhmetov confer over the modest dinghy of the well-known(and much loved) unemployed football fan Roman Abramovich

Julie Bishop

While the other kids set fire to things with the Sun and a magnifying glass, young Julie practised her laser stare.

Making a meal of welfare recipients

At the cannibal court of King Dave Cameron, observe the unspeakable in full pursuit of the inedible

 

In the absence of traditional bloodsports like fox hunting, let us join Ian Duncan Smith and sharpen our teeth to Eat The Poor

 

We are revolting!

Eh, Pharaoh, mind the shoes

Mohamed Morsi assumes dictatorial powers in Egypt

Kim Jong Un fun fair

It's scary ride for the geriatric generals as Kim Jong Un guides the North Korean state towards totalitarian Disneyworld

4 stars and I lost my jaw

It's just the price you pay to command the greatest military known to man.

 

General John Allen

But what's with the uniforms? The US army can never make up their minds between the empire in Star Wars and the Wehrmacht.

Scipio Australis: don't tase me bro!

NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione defends police use of tasers. His face betrays a miserable disdain

confessional

 

  

Hairshirt Harry, get your hard hat on! The Tony Abbott superman transforms in the confessional booth. "Bless me Father, for I have sinned"

He confesses to his guru

Cardinal George Pell - Well keep it between ourselves

Quietly transfer the offenders, close ranks and defend the Church. 

Damien Oliver: Always a Winner

If you know the horse you're riding could run like a dud, why not back another?

What the hell, it's Melbourne Cup day (and Damien Oliver's horse didn't win)