The SNP's new party political broadcast is out — and it features a character who might seem quite familiar to followers of Scottish politics.
The video, titled "What has the SNP ever done for us?" and released on Twitter and Facebook today, is set during a house party, and one of the stars is a bespectacled hipster called Davey who can't stop banging on about the failings of the SNP government to other guests.
🤷 What has the SNP ever done for us?
— The SNP (@theSNP) January 18, 2018
Watch our latest party political broadcast to find out and share it with your friends, family and followers.
Read more about the SNP’s record over the last 10 years: https://t.co/ee4BAqdeYh pic.twitter.com/vhTU8cnEap
To Davey's surprise, the other partygoers starting listing some of the Scottish Government's achievements, like free tuition, climate targets, baby boxes and the scrapping of prescription fees, before Nicola Sturgeon also steps in to make late cameo.
Twitter users were quick to point out the character's resemblance to the well-known Unionist commentator, and biographer of Sturgeon and Alex Salmond, David Torrance.
Brutal new SNP PPB featuring a harshly-caricatured @davidtorrance as bearded and hollow-rimed hipster naysayer of doom https://t.co/z12Q64DoRc
— PeatWorrier (@PeatWorrier) January 18, 2018
the chap playing you is very good
— Philip Sim (@BBCPhilipSim) January 18, 2018
Torrance tweeted when the video was released: "Here's the new SNP PPB, still claiming credit for the Borders Railway, Free Personal Care and free pensioner bus passes as, um, SNP achievements in government..."
Here's the new SNP PPB, still claiming credit for the Borders Railway, Free Personal Care and free pensioner bus passes as, um, SNP achievements in government... https://t.co/xj5nXJXJrW
— David Torrance (@davidtorrance) January 18, 2018
"Is Davey supposed to be you?" he was quickly asked.
"I'm afraid I don't have the inside track on SNP PPBs!" he replied.
He later added: "The real David Torrance would have pointed out that the SNP weren't responsible for free personal care and the Borders Railway..."
What do you think? Watch the video and let us know in the comments.
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