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Originally Posted by jamiefrost
Maybe because they will be poorly presented in the government and be unable to influence policy and decision making.
The same way pro independence supports are claiming for Scotland in the current Union.
Maybe it will start off as devolution for them first, nothing wrong with that. 
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He's English, don't blame him for not knowing his Scottish history.
The Danish/Norse Crown controlled Orkney and Shetland until 1469 when it agreed to hand them to the Scots Crown as a marriage dowry. However the paperwork wasn't completed properly, leading some of the islanders to attempt to assert Scandinavian land rights. This led to some pretty brutal suppression of the islanders by their Scots feudal masters around 1667.
In truth, if the islanders of the north wanted to, they could create a separatist myth for Orkney and Shetland just as valid as the one being spun for Scotland by the GuessNP. When someone says "They are Scottish, they are under our jurisdiction, why would they want to leave us?" it is just as ignorant as someone in England saying "They are British, they are under our jurisdiction, why would they want to leave us?"