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Still the greenest government ever? A cartoon for WDM by Ben Jennings

The green promises have turned toxic.

And in Ben Jennings’ depiction, so too have Cameron and Osborne.

Cartoon of Cameron and Osborne - Gang Green

David Cameron made the headlines back in 2006, visiting the Arctic and posing for photos with huskies to prove his green credentials.

But 2012 has been the year that finally put the nail in the coffin of the Conservatives’ promises to be the greenest government ever.

We’ve seen Tory MPs openly calling for the Climate Change Act to be scrapped. We’ve seen George Osborne pushing for more money for oil and gas at the expense of renewable energy. We’ve seen David Cameron veto the appointment of a new Permanent Secretary at the Department of Energy and Climate...

Hunger Summit and the Olympics - Ben Jennings' new cartoon

Ben Jennings has this month produced a cartoon reflecting the Olympics and the recent 'hunger summit'.

Did the summit address the root causes of food and fuel price spikes? Or did it risk further entrenching the root causes of hunger? The cartoon highlights the names of three multinational businesses who all had a place at discussions last week.

And David Cameron playing beach volleyball? You saw it here first.

New Ben Jennings cartoon - 'financial reign forest'

This month's Ben Jenning's cartoon, inspired by Magritte's famous painting, looks at our recent work around the green economy and financialisation of natural resources. It's a 'financial reign forest' indeed. 

Cartoon depicting bankers dropping into a forest

Ben Jennings' take on the 'aid for trade' story

It is increasingly looking like the British government is using aid as a way to further British business interests rather than to fight global poverty. This worrying trend prompted our director, Deborah Doane, to write in the Guardian clarifying that since the Pergau Dam legal case that the World Development Movement won in 1994, tied aid has been illegal. This is cartoonist Ben Jennings' take on the story. 

Cartoon showing a fighter plan dropping aid boxes

Introducing Ben Jennings, winner of political cartoon of the year

Last year's winner of the 'cartoon of the year' award was 21 year old University of Westminister undergraduate Ben Jennings. Beating household names like Steve Bell and Martin Ronson, he received the prestigeous prize for his '£1,000,000 treasure hunt' cartoon depicting the war in Libya. 

Ben Jennings has been drawing cartoons for as long as he can remember; in his Maths class at school he'd be drawing scathing caricatures of his teacher instead of Venn diagrams and at 15 he began selling his drawing. He has now produced cartoons for The Guardian, The i newspaper, The Morning Star, The Huffington Post and The Stool Pigeon music newspaper, among others, as well as taking part in various exhibitions and producing two animated music videos for MOBO-award winning rapper Akala, used on the rapper's website.

I'm very pleased to announce that during 2012 Ben will be drawing regular cartoons for WDM!

Here is the first one, relating to Barclays winning the Public Eye 'shame' Award for its role in food speculation. 

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