Robin Hood 2020 Austerity UK Comic

Another five years of austerity measures in the UK, five more years watching the rich and powerful elite, the public school oxbridge crowd filling their wallets. Well, where is Robin Hood?

George Osborne descends from one of the oldest Anglo-Irish aristocracies. The eldest son of Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, he is the heir apparent to the Osborne baronetcy.

Sir Richard Osborne, 1st Baronet (died c. 1667

Sir Richard Osborne, 2nd Baronet (died 1685)

Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet, MP (d. 11 April 1743

Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet (died 1783)

Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet (1757–1821)

Sir William Osborne, 10th Baronet (1817–1824)

Sir Henry Osborne, 11th Baronet, MP (aft. 1758 – 27 October 1837)

All were Members of Parliament, it must be tough having to work so hard to succeed

350 years of ruling the country... DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

Here's what Little John circa 2020 thinks....

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e-petition to Parliament

Would you consider signing an e-petition asking Parliament to debate the lack of representation of the State Educated electorate in Parliament?

90%+ of the electorate attended State Schools and the politcal class/elite/MPs in Britain increasingly fail to reflect the make up of the electorate it serves and lacks any diversity.

I've included some data that is available on the Internet. The following figures are taken from data supplied by Sutton Trust in May 2010

PDF download at http://www.suttontrust.com/research/the-educational-backgrounds-of-mps/

The Educational Backgrounds of Members of Parliament in 2010

Over one third (35%) of MPs elected in the 2010 General Election attended independent schools, which educate just 7% of the school population. The proportion of MPs attending independent schools is 3 percentage points higher than in the previous 2005 Parliament.

Nine in ten MPs in 2010 attended university – by far the highest proportion of any Parliament to date. This includes just under three in ten who were educated at either Oxford or Cambridge universities. Oxford has produced 102 MPs serving in the 2010 Parliament.

(The arrogance of youth or the confidence of certainty?)

There are 20 Etonians in the 2010 Parliament -- 5 more than those who served in the 2005 Parliament. Overall 13 schools (12 of which are fee-charging) produce a tenth of all MPs in the new Parliament.

 

38% of Conservative MPs were educated at Oxford or Cambridge compared with 20% of Labour MPs and 28% of Liberal Democrat MPs.

To combat this inequality Parliament could set targets for the three main parties to increase the number of State Educated MPs.

This could follow a similar format to gender and ethnic minority equality of representation and the target of 90% State Educated MPs, although not immediately achievable, would be a worthy goal.

see more at http://cdgraphicnovels.blogspot.co.uk/p/robin-hood-2020.html

The comic is available on the following download sites and the petition?

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Carnacki & Hannay comic £1.53 from Amazon

Following on from the success of their other digital download comics, Sheffield independent comic company CDComics has produced a new ongoing title, Carnacki & Hannay.

Issue One, Eyam: The UFO Mystery

Carnacki the Ghost Hunter returns and teams up with secret agent and James Bond prototype Richard Hannay

In September 1665 the village of Eyam in Derbyshire suffered an outbreak of plague and during the following fourteen months it killed almost two thirds of the population. Exactly, three hundred years later UFO's are spotted over Eyam and the next morning Jenny Taylor wakes up to find that the rest of the villagers have disappeared.

Jenny contacts the Police, who inform MI6 and they call in the army and send in their best agent, Richard Hannay.

Due to the extraterrestrial nature of the abduction Dick White the Head of MI6, also sends for Thomas Carnacki, a private investigator whose speciality is the paranormal. Miss Emma Dodgson, an Oxford, Mathematics and Science graduate is Carnacki’s assistant and the three investigators are faced with an unexplained abduction on a massive scale.

This 34 page full colour comic tells the story of their combined investigation as history, science and the occult clash in 1965.

The comic is available to download from Amazon priced £1.53 UK, $2.99 US or 2.60 Euros

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eyam-Plague-Village-Carnacki-ebook/dp/B0098A4SHE/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1347243917&sr=1-2

Other CDComic titles available on Amazon include

From the Surreal Murder Mystery Series

Meadowhell: The True Horror of Shopping, Parts One and Two

Spring Heeled Jack: From the Tunnels of Hell, Parts One and Two

Football Crazy: The Theatre of Nightmares, Parts One and Two

Also available 

Manhattan: The Man in the White Suit, Parts One, Two and Three

War Nurse: Issue One

see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Craig-Daley/e/B0070OKNKQ/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

For more information please check out the pages and posts at http://www.cdgraphicnovels.blogspot.com

MI6 UFO COMIC

Monday 10th September 2012 will see the release of the first issue of CDComics, Carnacki and Hannay title.

Eyam: The UFO Mystery is the first story and concludes in issue two

The download version will be available from Kindle and other websites, the CDrom version will be on sale in several Sheffield shops.