| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:19 - Sep 11 with 2358 views | homer_123 |
Can we let Cornwall join them? |  |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:23 - Sep 11 with 2341 views | eireblue |
With jealousy and fear.
They may have an overwhelming majority and Shetland 3 Scotland 0 even in a pre-qualifier warm-up is going to be really embarrassing. |  | | |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:24 - Sep 11 with 2336 views | Darth_Koont |
They've got a decent case for it. This is a decades-long movement too.
But I'd like to think an independent Scotland within the EU could be the best result for them. |  |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:30 - Sep 11 with 2310 views | Keno |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:24 - Sep 11 by Darth_Koont |
They've got a decent case for it. This is a decades-long movement too.
But I'd like to think an independent Scotland within the EU could be the best result for them. |
Am I right in thinking if they get independence from Scotland they retain a large proportion of the oil revenues? |  |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:33 - Sep 11 with 2289 views | leitrimblue |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:30 - Sep 11 by Keno |
Am I right in thinking if they get independence from Scotland they retain a large proportion of the oil revenues? |
And get to keep all the ponies? |  | | |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:34 - Sep 11 with 2286 views | Keno |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:33 - Sep 11 by leitrimblue |
And get to keep all the ponies? |
and the sheepdogs | |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:57 - Sep 11 with 2250 views | WeWereZombies |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:30 - Sep 11 by Keno |
Am I right in thinking if they get independence from Scotland they retain a large proportion of the oil revenues? |
Well, possibly, if they can then stay independent of Norway.
Seriously, this is a council vote and not the all Shetlanders. And it is just a vote to explore, i.e. their budget has been cut and they are putting an argument in place to either restore it or stop being cut further. Having met a few Shetlanders I think they know which side their bread is buttered on...but they would never let you into that secret. |  |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 13:38 - Sep 11 with 2182 views | MonkeyAlan |
I wish Nicola Sturgeon would claim independence for herself from the rest of Britain. Do us all a favour. |  | | |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 13:41 - Sep 11 with 2175 views | hampstead_blue |
it might even ruffle that hair of her's! |  |
| Assumption is to make an ass out of you and me.
Those who assume they know you, when they don't are just guessing.
Those who assume and insist they know are daft and in denial.
Those who assume, insist, and deny the truth are plain stupid.
Those who assume, insist, deny the truth and tell YOU they know you (when they don't) have an IQ in the range of 35-49.
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 14:08 - Sep 11 with 2141 views | Keno |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:57 - Sep 11 by WeWereZombies |
Well, possibly, if they can then stay independent of Norway.
Seriously, this is a council vote and not the all Shetlanders. And it is just a vote to explore, i.e. their budget has been cut and they are putting an argument in place to either restore it or stop being cut further. Having met a few Shetlanders I think they know which side their bread is buttered on...but they would never let you into that secret. |
I suspected there is a considerable amount of posturing going on but it could be interesting to see how it plays out | |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 14:21 - Sep 11 with 2123 views | Darth_Koont |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 12:30 - Sep 11 by Keno |
Am I right in thinking if they get independence from Scotland they retain a large proportion of the oil revenues? |
I'm sure that's uppermost in some minds.
Should be an interesting debate and raise a few valuable questions. In theory, the sort of civic nationalism that Scotland is talking about within the framework of the EU should be a system to ensure that regions and communities are intact and empowered. But with a much more centralised population than in most countries that's still going to be a challenge.
I think the answer is to make them autonomous areas like Spain and Portugal do with their far-flung islands. | |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 14:44 - Sep 11 with 2085 views | Keno |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 14:21 - Sep 11 by Darth_Koont |
I'm sure that's uppermost in some minds.
Should be an interesting debate and raise a few valuable questions. In theory, the sort of civic nationalism that Scotland is talking about within the framework of the EU should be a system to ensure that regions and communities are intact and empowered. But with a much more centralised population than in most countries that's still going to be a challenge.
I think the answer is to make them autonomous areas like Spain and Portugal do with their far-flung islands. |
There are two issues there.
The Shetlands could look for Crown Dependency status to put them on the same standing as the Channel Islands which give a large degree of self government and on that basis they could be separate from Scotland
The issue particularly Spain has, and other EU countries, is that they have regions who what varying degrees of separation which the central government what to restrict. | |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 14:58 - Sep 11 with 2062 views | Guthrum |
Didn't even become part of Scotland until the 1470s. Belonged to Norway before that. |  |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 15:04 - Sep 11 with 2048 views | jaykay |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 13:38 - Sep 11 by MonkeyAlan |
I wish Nicola Sturgeon would claim independence for herself from the rest of Britain. Do us all a favour. |
she's a decent egg really |  |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 15:06 - Sep 11 with 2050 views | Keno |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 14:58 - Sep 11 by Guthrum |
Didn't even become part of Scotland until the 1470s. Belonged to Norway before that. |
Lerwick is nearly 200 miles nearer Oslo than London (with London being 600 as the crow flies) | |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 15:47 - Sep 11 with 2007 views | MonkeyAlan |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 15:04 - Sep 11 by jaykay |
she's a decent egg really |
That's plagerisn! | | | |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 17:30 - Sep 11 with 1946 views | Ryorry |
If you ever visit the Shetland Isles and want to get out alive, don't ever refer to them as "the Shetlands"  Same goes for the Orkney Isles (or the County of Orkney) - *not* "the Orkneys" 
Their riposte to Londoners used to be "and how's life in the Londons these days?" |  |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 21:36 - Sep 11 with 1830 views | J2BLUE |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 17:30 - Sep 11 by Ryorry |
If you ever visit the Shetland Isles and want to get out alive, don't ever refer to them as "the Shetlands" Same goes for the Orkney Isles (or the County of Orkney) - *not* "the Orkneys"
Their riposte to Londoners used to be "and how's life in the Londons these days?" |
Maybe they misunderstood the Shetlands...  |  |
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| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 21:46 - Sep 11 with 1818 views | Ryorry |
| Hahaha!! Shetland Islands want to have independence from Scotland vote on 21:36 - Sep 11 by J2BLUE |
Maybe they misunderstood the Shetlands... |
Potential new chat-up line - "The Shetlands don't understand me" | |
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