Just like Rowson, Gerald Scarfe, one of Britain's most well known of political satirists and cartoonists, has produced a wealth of Blair themed illustrators, displaying him as a big eared bigoted lunatic and depicting him in a crude fashion. This work infuriates me in a way, I simply don't understand the reason behind this work, why we as readers of the Guardian and the Independant, demand to see cartoons. Politicians, and especially world leaders, are not for our pathetic entertainment and instead have serious and important responsibilities over our country. They're simply not here to be mocked (only in good reason?). All this is a continuation of the Spitting Image example, which forces out old fashioned and typically British views on the people above us. I could get overly passionate about this but I'll refrain.
Anyway, here's Scarfe's work:
Fabulous lol
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