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This cartoon begins with the text “Crime and lack of punishment” the words “lack of” are smaller and coloured red, the rest of the text is black. Under that is text reading “A story of government accountability”. The rest of the cartoon is divided into two columns, the one on the left is titled “Crime”, the one on the right is titled “Punishment” and has quotation marks around it. The crime and punishment columns then read in order as follows.
Crime: Inquiry finds minister bullied staff
Punishment: PM calls for ‘protective square’ around minister
This is illustrated with a giant mouth shouting at two people
Crime: Top aid drives to Barnard Castle during lockdown
Punishment: Infamous ‘eye-test’ press conference given in PMs garden
This is illustrate with a balloon with a castle and the words “I heart Barnard Castle” on it
Crime: Health secretary breaks law on reporting PPE purchasing
Punishment: SACKED! Only joking… he had “no regrets”, much like his mates who got the PPE contracts!
This is illustrated with a face mask