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The Birmingham Mail's cartoon today made the news conference laugh.

With a forthcoming strike by council workers, Whittock's gag shows a concerned city leader Mike Whitby (great caricature) being told by his pa that she's kept February 5 clear (the strike date)... and asking him whether he'd like to be a binman, school dinner lady or street sweeper.

But the real clever touch by conference was to ask Whittock to add another character, Alan Rudge, the cabinet member responsible for the Single Status Pay issue which the strike is over.

Thing is, Rudge is not well known enough by Whittock to create a good caricature... and so the suggestion, which makes the gag funnier, was to place a pair of wide-open, frightened eyes underneath Whitby's desk, with a note attached pointing to 'Rudge->'.