article_snippet.sent: Both the Press and the public routinely talk about politicians in less-than-flattering terms, mocking their trendy (or spartan) kitchens, their silly casual clothes and their strange hairstyles, not to mention their attempts to eat a bacon sandwich, hug babies, cook a casual lunch or chuck a bowling ball
article_snippet.sent: all in the name of a photo opportunity.
article_snippet.sent: The UK is home to a rich and raucous tradition of political satire, from 19th century caricaturists such as George Cruikshank and James Gillray, to more recent cartoonists Gerald Scarfe, Ralph Steadman and those in Private Eye magazine, as well as TV series such as Spitting Image, Mock The Week
article_snippet.sent: Most of our most successful comedians sneer at the party leaders.
article_snippet.sent: Despite all the photo calls at factories, in schools and cafes and villages halls, poll after poll shows that the public find most British politicians
article_snippet.sent: It’s all beginning to sound like a repressive communist state.
article_snippet.sent: So what of the woman these people idolise as some great political saviour unlike any other figure in Britain today?
article_snippet.sent: By trying to stifle debate and silence any jokes (no matter how feeble) about some of her followers leader, some of her followers are beginning to look more like fanatics than political supporters.