[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-1775-EN":3},{"permalink":4,"posted":5,"news_id":6,"body":7,"summary":8,"title":9,"images":10,"tags":13,"tile_image":12,"pk":14,"published":15},"\u002Fnews\u002F1775\u002Fscottish_independence","2014-09-01T10:00:00#1775",1775,"\r\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"\u002FLiamOFarrell\" target=\"_blank\">Liam O'Farrell\u003C\u002Fa> paints a political cartoon illustrating the upcoming Scottish Independence vote.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\u003Cp>Liam was asked to illustrate an article which features a series of questions put to Ruth Davidson (leader of the Scottish Conservatives and Conservative MSP&nbsp; for Glasgow) and Paul Wheelhouse (the Minister for Environment and Climate Change in the Scottish Parliament and Scottish National Party).&nbsp; Liam says \"Essentially Ruth wants to remain as part of the UK and Paul is against the union. With this in mind, the client and I developed the idea of Ruth pulling the two nations together and Paul pushing them apart.&nbsp; We felt it important&nbsp;to give a balanced view and avoid any clich&eacute; hero\u002Fvillain scenarios. We also had to take into account that both view themselves as proud Scots. Once we were clear on this, I added in the flags of the two sides, each wearing representative tartans and even Nessie as well!\" Commissioned by Knight Frank LLP you can see more information on the debate \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.knightfrankblog.com\u002Fruralbulletin\u002Fnews-headlines\u002Fthe-big-interview-scottish-independence-debate\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">here.\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>","\u003Ca href=\"\u002FLiamOFarrell\" target=\"_blank\">Liam O'Farrell\u003C\u002Fa> paints a political cartoon illustrating the upcoming Scottish Independence vote.","Scottish Independence",[11],{"filename":12},"blog_1775_635451221218810000.jpg","#figure and people#conceptual#cartoon or humor#political#caricatures#cartoon#england#watercolours#liam o'farrell#scotland#united kingdom#","news","2014-09-01T10:00:00"]