Well hung

The Great British Election of 6th May 2010 has now past into infamy.  We were all subjected to the media novelty of a TV debate direct from these three politician candidates, I beavered to complete this poster before the predictably inevitable outcome - to show how I see them.

Central to my artwork was capturing their character, to depict each in their own plaques shaped like a 50p coin with Traitors Gate - logo appears on all parliamentary business, and sitting at the top of each plaque is their own animist in animal form.

Featured allegorical themes are The dead Albatross (from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge) represents the peoples dashed hopes.

Britannia (bottom-right) is not with her trusty shield and trident but substituted with a wide-screen TV and camera, because now she's more representative of a self-important, bloated and embedded media.

The Devil (bottom-left) is the Taxman, or should that now be the Axeman, he's about to decapitate the corpsed Albatross thereby severing all collective memory of a time when our freedoms were inalienable.  Only thing in life is death and taxes.  I think this poster will grow on you the more its truths become self evident.  Till then and on a more jocular note, here's the translated Latin on the plaques, for -

David Cameron (Tory boy):
  [Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum] 'Garbage in, garbage out'
  [Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!] 'Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business!'

Gordon Brown (Flash Gordon with one good eye):
  [Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare] 'I think some people in togas are plotting against me'
  [Salvator Mundi] 'Saviour of the World'

Nick Clegg (who?):
  [Vinum bellum iucunumque est, sed animo corporeque caret] 'It's a nice little wine, but it lacks character and depth'