Doomsayer Alistair Darling

Doomsayer Alistair Darling

About

We're a' doomed, doomed ah tell ye - Doomed!

The cartoon depicts Alistair Darling, leader of the No Campaign, as Dad's Army[1] character Private James Frazer, who was portrayed as a dour Scotsman  constantly giving exaggerated warnings of doom.

This characterization is in reference to scaremongering being the sole contribution to the independence referendum debate by the No Campaign and Alistair Darling in particular. The cartoon was published shortly after Alistair Darling had claimed that the SNP's plans for Scotland's currency and tax post independence were falling apart[2].

Source

The Cartoon is © Chris Cairns 2013. It was published by Wings Over Scotland on 23rd February 2013 in the article Darling warns blah blah something.


  1. ^ Dad's Army was a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War.
  2. ^ cached copy of Scotsman article Darling: Financial plans for independence don’t add up

Comments

There are currently no comments

New Comment

required

required (not published)

optional

required

Recent Posts

Tags

Archive

2014
2013
2012

Feeds

RSS / Atom