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Exactly; there isn't proportional representation, so the poll has no real relevance, it just highlights how awful the current government is. The voters Labour will lose will most likely abstain or vote Conservative, so how will the Lib Dems gain enough seats?

Maybe it's easy to miss the joke because cartoons are supposed to be funny anyway, so a satirical news organisation could feasibly have an editorial cartoon which isn't a parody.

Don't make me Ang Lee.

The word homosexual was created by some doctor to describe the 'disease', and the origins of homosexual mean that use of the word implies it is a disease. Unlike 'Irish'.

And that's why I don't like cricket.

I think you'll find that he's selling time, not insurance.