As someone providing retirement care for a former working cat - chief pest controller at a farm business (sadly, the well-to-do owner did not provide her with a pension) - I just love this Gary Barker cartoon from The Times. Not usually a reader of the paper, I only discovered the sketch this morning whilst googling a story about the shadow chancellor being offered up by Labour for a large transfer fee to an unspecified foreign government in order to tackle the Party's financial deficit left by the withdrawal of trade union funding. I was so looking forward to Ed Balls disappearing off the scene, but, unfortunately, could not find any hard evidence of the scoop, although there may be another political caricature along these lines somewhere in today's press. However, Barker's "Smoke v Mirrors" cartoon encapsulates so well the shadow-boxing that takes place between Chancellor George Osborne and his Labour opposition Ed Balls around the subject of the British economy, that my disappointment is almost overcome.
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