YESTERDAY we put out pictures of the Prime Minister visiting fishermen in Stromness, Orkney, and asked National readers to come up with their best captions.
And wow, did we receive a lot of responses! Nearly 300 entries over on Facebook, plus a fair few emails and DMs, and more than 600 on Facebook!
We’ve clawed through so many crab puns that we can no longer sea straight – sorry.
The National has compiled our top 10 caption competition entries. Enjoy!
1) It really IS a power crab! – James Bissell
2) New Marvel superhero Crabman looks terrible – Lee Hunter-Mckenna
3) When you don’t have cats, throw a dead crab onto the table – Phil Connolly
4) Dominic Cummings unveils scheme to help Johnson remember we’re not shaking people’s hands anymore – Thomas Stott
5) Public health is safe in his hands (that isn’t a typo) – Howard Saab
Second photograph:
1) ‘This pointy finger pose makes look like a know what I’m talking about’ – Stuart McMillan
2) ‘So that’s Scotland? It’s bigger than it looks on the weather map’ – Norma Ballingall
3) Scottish fishermen promise not to laugh if Johnson demonstrates UK’s world-beating track and trace system – Russell Gascoigne
Caption competition!
— The National (@ScotNational) July 23, 2020
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4) ‘You’re looking at Nicola Sturgeon’s approval ratings, Mr Johnson. Yours are in the sea.’ – Suzanne
5) ‘How did that bloody Godley woman find me way out here?’ - @MDplusthree
Thanks for all your entries!
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