Satirical Cartoon: West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner By-election

A cartoon infographic, like those that are popular on the Internet these days. The lines are simple and the writing a little shaky, like David Shrigley or those birthday cards or XKCD.

It’s a bar chart, in black and white and cross-hatching. It’s labeled ‘West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner By-election Exit Poll’. The bars are:

Labour 200
UKIP 130
Tory 50
Green 45
Lib Dem 10
Residents against the wheelie bin 12
White Dee for Celebrity Big Brother 243,235

There’s still a copy of the Birmingham Mail on the floor with an explanatory ‘Low Turnout’ headline.

Author: Jon Bounds

Jon was voted the ‘14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands’ in 2008. Subsequently he has not been placed. He’s been a football referee, venetian blind maker, cellar man, and a losing Labour council candidate: “No, no chance. A complete no-hoper” said a spoilt ballot. Jon wrote and directed the first ever piece of drama performed on Twitter when he persuaded a cast including MPs and journalists to give over their timelines to perform Twitpanto. But all that is behind him.