Steve Bell is the talentless twat who scribbles childish “cartoons” in the Guardian. Not only are the drawings dire in themselves (the average five-year old could do better), the points he makes are so clumsy they are as subtle as a jack-hammer used for brain surgery. Today’s terrible example is probably the lowest he has sunk of late, though.
I don’t like David Cameron (understatement, much?). His failings are legion, but an Adolf Hitler, he ain’t. Not even close. And, frankly, irritating though I find it when someone shouts “Godwin,” in this case, they would have a point. Bell has gone directly to the Nazi analogy without any attempt at nuance, subtlety, or, for that matter, clever humour – ‘cos, yeah, immigration controls is exactly like gassing millions of Jews in concentration camps, FFS! But then, clever and Steve Bell are not usually applicable in the same sentence. Still, I expect the Islington set are clapping like deranged sea-lions at his wit. Well, half of it he has, anyway…
What a fucking bell-end that twat is…
Steve Bell’s recurrent anti-Semitism is another reason to hold him in utter contempt.
Excellent choice of adjectives. Couldn’t have put it better myself.
Bell’s main claim to fame was depicting Major tucking his shirt into Aertex underpants some 20 years ago – much to the amusement of the tittering Guardian readers.
That wasn’t particularly funny, and I can’t think of anything he’s done since that is funny.
Alternative humour?
Alternative to humour, more like.
Likewise his childish repetition of Cameron with a condom on his head or GWB depicted as an ape. No, it wasn’t funny the first time, by the umpteenth time is is even less funny if that is at all possible.
My first encounter with Bell’s oeuvre was as a student in the early 80s, when the assorted members of University Left, many of them the product of impeccably Labour households, would chuckle smugly at the Guardian cartoons every morning.
As far as I could see, it was a massive national manifestation of the Emperor’s New Clothes; who would risk admitting publicly that he found the cartoons unfunny and thus exposing himself as politically unaware or – far worse – a Tory sympathiser?
I was not aware of Mr Bell’s oeuvre and I don’t think I will be rushing to discover more of his works.
I have seen better drawings done by elephants and frankly I am rather picky with my art.
For example anyone who reckons anything in the Turner Prize winners enclosure is art needs stripping and given a rub down with sand paper.
So maybe thats why Mr Bell’s work has passed me by as I am an aficionado of good humour and decent art neither of which seem to be in Mr Bell’s remit.
Just read what the Marxist goons are writing under Bell’s oh so witty cartoon. That the left lack any sense of perspective and any real understanding of history, is proved by virtually every post. Bet they went to one of Britain’s indoctrination centres of Marcusan education. Dave suggests foreigners who come here shouldn’t have immediate access to state benefits for a while – well yes Bell and assorted dribbling Trotsky fanciers, that certainly equates with putting Jews on sealed trains and gassing them. Utter tossers.
Farage should take anyone who smears him as a racist to court for slander/libel. That would teach them.
Like Keith above, this is the first time I’ve seen one of his cartoons and hopefully it will be the last.
The last time he sank this low was when he decided to have a go at Wootton Bassett
https://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2011/03/22/weapons-grade-bell-end/
I hadn’t seen the Wootton Bassett ‘cartoon’ before: would it be an unacceptable oversimplification if I wrote “Steve Bell is a twat”?
I would have thought all Guardian readsers were great fans and supporters of Hitler.
After all they love Jews SOOOO much.
Well, the one thing you can rely upon is the internal contradiction of the socialist and his ability to carry out the mental somersaults necessary to live with them.
A post entitled ‘Bell End’ immediately following one about Circumcision – was that intentional!