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This cartoon is brilliant - i especially like the woman holding up the main sail one can only presume it is Merkel and the look she is giving cameron is practically screaming FFS!


Kals cartoon is apt and complicated. Generally a picture is worth a thousand words. Kal seems to have merged several pictures!
The sharks could represent market satiety as well as unemployment and corporate investment insecurity among other things. Karl Marx nor Adam Smith ever advised what to do once their nirvana of sustenance distribution was achieved. Even Schumpeter falls back on creative destruction to provide new fields to plow.
The big farmers have run out of hungry peasants to sell to and the peasants have 4 pairs of shoes each. The farmers are stuffed with cash and the peasants have none. Those would be the farmers on Kal's boat. The sea is the sea of satiety.
There are several positive answers that would increase quality of life for billions of people but little apparent immediate profit to be realized. "In the long run we're all dead" he said. What to do when there's no place to run, short run or long?

georgi benevolent345

EC and ECB mind-control_ many politicians and business people in Europe. They
manipulate financial markets, require high interest rate, require low-price
This is done with small implants in the head (sometimes involuntary)and
wireless technology, European Parliament calls it “converging technology”. Essentially a sensor is connected to nerves and the brain
teaches itself to recognize the single in this way the thoughts of a person
can be received and also send to him/her. I found such device implanted in my
sinuses with FMRI. I studied at CEU - sponsored by Soros, and Rostowski, the
financial minister of Poland was teaching there (he is also mind_ contolled), Bokrosh – European Parliament as well.
Behind Soros, actually are EC and ECB - the owners and beneficiaries of the
technology. It is not done for security, because I worked for the Bulgarian_
National Bank and I was threatened with this technology to make credit
expansion for the bank cartel (CEU is teaching the central banks in CEE this
actually). From BNB the mind-controlled on_ Telekom_ Austria_ net_ are Staty Statev, Kalin Hristov, Mariela Nenova, Andrey Vassilev, Rosen Rozenov, Grigor Stoevsky, Kristina Karagyozova, Tzvetan Tzalinsky lost 20 bln at stock exchange, 10 bln bad loans, tens of bilions at housing market.
I also met Papademos at a Austrian Central Bank Conference, while he was in
ECB, and I believe he is also mind-controlled. Tha same is valid for Spain, Italy, Greece.


Who or what are the sharks? Big corporations, bankers or other countries?


Shark-infested waters were the onus for boarding the EU ship. Sad to see the same imagery used in this era to question Britian's plan to swim to safety.

Why has an orca beached itself on the European continent to avoid swimming with sharks?


KAL at his best, his pen stuck right where it hurts and damn the squealing. Sometimes I suspect he gets raked over the editorial coals of the Economist (his iconic cartoon of the bankers' olympics was followed by a series of cautious, "balanced" and forgettable stuff rehabilitating free markets (and bankers)). This is definitely back to form. Admittedly in sync with the editorial line of the Economist concerning Cameron and Europe, but no less incisive and gifted for that.

J. Kemp

One worries about the poor sharks suffering severe indigestion from the meal they might make of that jumper.


It's hardly an accurate cartoon. The British despise the level of regulation coming from Brussels, not the current economic conditions. They have a point. They did not sign on for what is becoming in effect supranational integration.

Connect The Dots

How to expand the EU and restore population growth and vitality:
1. Make Turkey the 28th EU Member nation.
The largest member by population
.....and poorest, but most potential for growth.
2. Make Iraq the 29th State.
Even poorer and needing more infrastructure.
3. Kill Bashar al Assad. Make Syria # 30.
All want law and order.
And would love bureaucratic regulations in lieu of the status quo.
Tell Britain to take a hike!

Connect The Dots

One country leaving the EU, makes the entire Union less stable.

One year ago during the Greek Meltdown, the likely candidate for exit was Greece
--whether exiting ow its own or asked to leave.
OR Spain, Portugal, Ireland, or Italy.

But now it is Britain that may leave
--an historic empire in banking, insurance, manufacturing, and global trade.

One thing is certain:
If Britain leaves, it will not be the last.
And there is risk of unraveling.

john4law in reply to Connect The Dots

The Union is either based on mutual advantage or intimidation. It can't be held together by intimidation and coercion replacing self advantage. That is the road to Empire not Democratic and Free Enterprise based union and permanent peace. Please don't talk about Lincoln. If anyone is pushing Serfdom, it is the Socialist hard liners who rule by stealth and fiat.

quite the opposite, UK has been a force preventing European consolidation.
UK's attitude towards EU has been: we don't want to follow you but we also don't want you to progress without us so we'll just block all your initiatives.
If UK leaves EU will consolidate much faster.

mirror ,
If UK leaves EU will consolidate much faster.
Yes, but Europe's survival will depend on wisdom of German politicians. They are efficient, but in the long run, do tend to make costly mistakes. Eu and Europe needs Britain, and British political instinct, if Europe is to be able to adapt to a changing world in real time.

Ideally the western European countries which share a very homogeneous set of values characterized mainly by its welfare states and safeguarding of human dignity, should stick together if they don't want to completely loose their sovereignty.

Britain being one of them would provide a most welcome counter weight to Germany and its current supremacist drift which is tearing Europe apart. Sadly UK chose to exclude itself in its silly belief that the short term gains would outdo the long term ones, trying to convince itself that there is an alternative to a strong EU that can protect our way of living.

Yes this is the big irony, any sovereignty gains on the short term that Britain would get by leaving the union, will be completely wiped out when the other giants and their corporations dictate the law and blackmail weaker states into submission. Europe will become like Finland to USSR or taiwan to China if not worse.

On the other hand UK started to drift way from EU with the iron cow and now lives in the delusion that unless EU is downsized to a simple free trade area, UK will be better by itself.

So if you ask me to choose between having UK in and blocking every single initiative or having UK out, I would say let UK leave.


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