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Scotland on Sunday cartoon - 22/01/2012

The government’s proposal for a viewing platform on the Forth Bridge may be on the up, but when it comes to Scotland’s defence policy Alex Salmond doesn’t know where to go

Illustration by Brian Adcock


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mccranor

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 12:23 AM

Any more of this unionist garbage and I'm canceling my subscription to this paper



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Col.Blimp III

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 09:51 PM

The Scottish defence force guy on the roof should be looking through the scope of a a 50 cal sniper rifle and be saying to Salmond .... I can see Gordon Brown's house from here.



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Tightfisted

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 08:25 PM

#7 HEN BROON BRILLIANT Sir !!! Could I have your permission to use some of these elsewhere?? Sums up INGURlanders arrogance on this matter quite perfectly !!



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Brit-free

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 06:22 PM

more sneery rubbish from a news group on its last legs ....in support of a political settlement on its last legs .....if i had a budgie i wouldnt even insult it by putting this low grade trash in the bottom of its cage



16

Barney Thomson

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 06:20 PM

Does this newspaper actuallly pay this "cartoonist" for pathetic ad hominem efforts like these. Drain of scarce resources I reckon. Charles #15 - you've just confirmed what I've always suspected about you.



15

Charles Linskaill

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 04:40 PM

Very Good Cartoon of Witty Humour, Except Alex Salmond is in the wrong place, He is the one that should be in the catapult,,, Well-Done!



14

Charles P

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 03:52 PM

About as funny as a verruca! Foreign owned Paper with Foreign owned agenda masquerading under the name of 'The SCOTSMAN?' Have you no shame?



13

HumantestanimalToyou

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 03:29 PM

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Kinghob

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 02:30 PM

Why isn't the cartoon even mildly amusing? The scotsman is deluded into thinking that its unionist uber alles viewpoint is a popular one, the satirical cartoon should reflect a finger on the pulse of the people and yet look at the nick of this piece of vacuous kak!



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Kinghob

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 02:22 PM

We can always hire the er, 'English' aircraft carriers, you know, the ones that are being built but won't have an 'aircraft' to fly from them!------This is the only place I would see a rubbishy scotsman cartoon-it won't be viewed by most of us by virtue of the fact we don't buy the newspaper.



10

BillDunblane

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 02:16 PM

The miserable attempt at humour is laughable, unfortunately the cartoon isn't. Circulation tumbling Hootsman, down, down, down - now that IS funny!



9

flyinngscott

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 01:53 PM

Same old same old from the scotsman. Makes me cringe to see. Surely a rebranding is long overdue. Using the "Scotsman" as the title for an overtly unionistanti-scottish rag is an offence under the trades description act. How about "the Lackey", "the Lickspittle", ...



8

well informed

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 01:33 PM

And the Satire is where again? The humour? Remind me again what caricaturing is without Satire and humour? Remind me again the types of regimes that put them out via their controlled media sourses? Remind me again at how sinister and in fact illegal they are! Remind me again that if the same concept was used depicting Jews or other ethnic minorities how Der Sturmer would be facing criminal charges. Remind me again that because its acceptable to the UK Govt the laws depicting this kind of public defamation without the value of satire and humour are ignored!



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HenBroon

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 11:55 AM

BREAKING NEWS : England will not allow Scotland to use English after independence we will be forced to use Gaelic or French. _______________________________________________________ England will not allow Scotland to use IT'S Embassy's and will ban the consumption of Whisky therein. _______________________________________________________ England will ban the wearing of tartan and the consumption of shortbread. _______________________________________________________ England will ban the wearing of sprigs of lucky white heather, in case they are Scottish. _______________________________________________________ England will confiscate all bagpipes and lock them in the Tower until Scotland begs to be allowed to re join the union. _______________________________________________________ The consumption of porridge will be banned. _______________________________________________________ England will cut all the wires between Scotland and England so that no Scottish electricity can be used as happens at the moment 247. _______________________________________________________ England will block the pipelines between Rocksavage in North Wales and Grangemouth so no Scottish oil can be used. _______________________________________________________ England will extend the border out in to the North Sea so that no Scottish sea can get to England. _______________________________________________________ All motorways will be dug up as will all railway line and all aircraft coming from Scotland will be turned round. _______________________________________________________ Giant fans will be built along the border to blow all Scottish fresh air and midges back to Scotland. _______________________________________________________ All migrating birds will be forced to fly back to Scotland. _______________________________________________________ All Arbroath Smokies will be shot on sight as will all Haggis. _______________________________________________________ A giant anti Haggis fence will be erected along the border along with minefields to keep them out. _______________________________________________________



6

Anagach

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 10:49 AM

Its one more soldier then the Unionists are leaving, how many bases are left now ?, just the nukes and an air base under threat, oh and just the other side of that bridge are 4 nuclear subs that are not yet decommissioned but in cold storage and unable to be moved. Yep the Union dividend but not to fear the Scotsman cartoon can distract attention from it all.



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