Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for March 14, 2024

surprise surprise!

Andy has a kindred spirit in the cell next door.

A crooked politician? NO, tell me it ain’t so!!

Andy almost spends as much time behind bars than he does in bars (pubs)

I guess there’s as much corruption in English politics as in American.

It’s good to have an accessible Member of Parliament.

I’m sorry! American politics. I apologised in advance!

If only.

Closer to the truth than comfortable.

What is an MP? Asking for an American.

Time to find a new MP.

One of our past Presidents was asked what rouges & thieves he had met with lately. “The Cabinet,” came the reply.

Saw that one coming.

A politician actually in jail? C’mon….!

This Andy Capp strip reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes strip in which Calvin was complaining about the lack of role models in modern society. “Political leaders? We’re lucky when they don’t land in jail!”

HAHAHAHAHA !!! Just where ALL defense lawyers belong.

I’m not sure why Andy’s ABOUT is bolded and italicized. Is that the word one would stress in that question? I’ve heard the phrase spoken with YOU or ON stressed.

So a Member of Parliament and a US Member of Congress on same level of corruption? Think the USA “ranks” even lower in honesty.

Andy’s MP has a reputation to uphold.

Sorry Andy…it is what it is!

Andy had better appeal to the PM, in that case!

Just consulted the Andy Capp archivers in exile and it’s confirmed, this is a very close replica of an earlier strip. The only difference being the guy in the next cell was his Lawyer.

Not long ago one of Vermont’s Legislators was stopped by state police for DWI.

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“Guard! Guard! I demand to see my ambassador! Easily done, he’s in the next cell.”—- The Firesign Theater “Waiting For the Electrician or Someone Like Him” 1968

MP got caught with his pants down — not unlike some of our politicians on this side of the pond.

I did NOT expect that!

In the strip, I mean. In real life? Hmm. Maybe ;-)

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That’s why Andy always votes Labour, they are kindred spirits.

Nice to know that in some countries they actually put politicians in jail.

Sounds like he has a ‘representative’ that truly is!

Member of Parliment

Reminds me of the cartoon “Porky Pig’s Feat.” (Don’t work, do they?")

Both in for drunk and disorderly, resisting arrest.

Member of Parliment.