Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
Nobody’s mentioned what would happen if the residents of the Orkney and Shetland isles voted to go it alone and declare independence from Scotland. I have read recently that the residents of both islands are fed up with the centralisation of everything by the SNP controlled Scottish Government in Edinburgh.
As a result of the income from oil landed on both islands they would be very wealthy.
Meanwhile it would knock a hole in the SNP calculations for income from taxation especially as the oil from North Sea oil pipeline into Grangemouth is not flowing to the same extent as previously.
Why have there been so many rigs sitting tied up in the Dundee harbour front if oil production is booming in he North Sea.
Orkney and Shetland Islands have no claim on the blocks currently identified in The North Sea - never have and never will. Just like the odd one or two that want this 'independence' it will simply never happen.