Quote Originally Posted by equusdriving View Post
that's my mind made up, if by any miracle we get Independence, Im of over the water to Orkney
Was on Radio Orkney this morning that whatever happens in 2014 / 2016, the 3 island authorities (Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles) have some aspirations to gain more control of what happens in the islands, and to retain more of the revenue from things like marine power. Whilst not into seceding from the UK, it would be a bit of a laugh is Scotland seceded from the UK, then the islands from Scotland, or else stayed with the UK. Not sure where Eck would fill his coffers from then, if both the traditional oil and the renewable energy "oil" (He described the Pentland Firth as being akin to Saudi Arabia as far as tidal power went) either didn't stop off at Holyrood and continued onwards to Westminster, or else never made it beyond the islands.