English: John Burn depicted in a Punch magazine cartoon from the 15 December 1909 edition, drawn by Leonard Raven-Hill, captioned:

The Colossus of Battersea The Right Hon. John Burns (to his native borough): "Shift me, and you become a 'blasted heath'"

["If he were defeated the borough would never recover from the indelible stigma of rejecting him" - Report, in "The Times" of Mr. John Burns' speech at the Battersea Town Hall]