Thursday 14 February 2013

Cumbria Day

It has been a good week for cartoonists, with horse meat turning up in everything and the pope resigning (rumours that Tony Blair is taking on the role is untrue as he considers it a step down).

Some of this appears in this week's Westmorland Gazette. Not the pope, unfortunately, as the Gazette doesn't yet have a Vatican correspondent.

The other three stories were more snow, high levels of gambling and Cumbria Day. The latter was a superb marketing exercise in which the entire population of Cumbria went to Westminster to lobby government ministers to do something or other.

Here are the ideas I pitched to my steamed editor

Feel free to vote for the one you think he should have chosen to grace today's front page. 

Then trot along to my website and see if you were right.