YESTERDAY we issued a challenge to our readers — we wanted them to help the UK Government out and show them exactly what they thought the impact of Brexit would be. Since the Brexit Secretary himself wasn’t going to do it, we thought our readers could step in.
Little did we know how quickly it would take off. UK and Irish Twitter was dominated yesterday by the sight of The National, as quick-witted contributors knocked up their versions and tweeted them back to us.
These are the ones that have made our print edition, but we highly recommend going to our Twitter page @ScotNational or www.twitter.com/scotnational to see them all, including some of the fantastic GIF ones — and those we've missed!
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Some, of course, were too obscene to appear here. But the vast majority were witty, inspired and dead-on takes on the absolute mess the UK has got itself into.
A huge thank you to everyone who took part!
In no particular order...
1. Credit: @qsilverfox
2. Credit: @StuieDonaldson
3. Credit: @LJ_Skipper
4. Credit: @Shiny02
5. Credit: @Grantomac
6. Credit: drekken11
7. Credit: @goodjolt
8. Credit: @NeilRankin_
9. Credit: @JamesMcCurthy
10. Credit: @RogueCoder250
11. Credit: @DJLazarus
12. Credit: @AcmeDarryl
13. Credit: @murphymakes
14. Credit: @Checkyerda
15. Credit: @NewTattoo
16. Credit: @gazhay
17. Credit: @gdog2010_john
18. Credit: @diakritikal
19. Credit: @BillySangster
20. Credit: @Candlelands
21. Credit: @MrsFantoosh
22. Credit: @TomMorganJones
23. Credit: @badgersarefun
24. Credit: @westonfront
25. Credit: @miketoons
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