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bthespie

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  1. "if Scotland went Independant what would Shetland do?" The answer is in the question. Shetland, being an integral part of Scotland, was taken into the UK when Scotland joined and I guess will leave when Scotland (which Shetland is part of) leaves. The Nationalistic Shetland attitude was a result of manipulation by Westminster civil servants asked to come up with a plan to prevent Scotland from voting for Independence in the 1960-70's/ They felt that if they could create a nationalistic movement in the Isles then they would remove and argument for the break up of the union. It's an indication of the level of respect that those in London have for the integrity of one of the constituent nations of the UK that they would try and break it up. In all of this however I have always found there is an underlying nastiness in some of the Isles. There are numerous chips on shoulders that somehow Shetland is hard done by and a nasty nationalistic element who have a somewhat blinkered view that anyone who is not "born and bred" Shetlanders are somehow inferior as human beings. There is also a mistaken belief that the rest of Scotland actively hate them when people in the rest of Scotland are simply getting on with their own lives. I have only put this down to some of my fellow islanders parochial view of the world. A world where Shetland is centre of everything when in fact we are just another part of a symbiotic world of similar peoples. Sad but hey ho. Most people in Shetland luckily aren't like this minority.
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