Cartoons of the week: 6-12 September

Published on 12/10/2012 14:34

Cartoonists Iain Green and Brian Adcock offer their satirical take on the week’s news.

This week one of the country’s leading public sector figures warned that Scotland could fall off a spending cliff if the SNP does not concentrate on the economy rather than focusing all its efforts on independence.

Could the Conservative Party be a sinking ship, as Cameron and co struggle to stay afloat on a sea of issues including tuition fees, welfare and benefit cuts and NHS reform, while ruling out mansion tax, and insisiting we’re all in this together?

The Prime Minister’s problems didn’t end there, as Boris Johnson managed to steal his limelight amid the announcements on new powers for homeowners to tackle burglars.

Meanwhile the Labour Party were accusing Alex Salmond of conducting his referendum deal behind closed doors, with Scots’ responses to the consultation seeming to disappear in a puff of smoke.