No, I'm not, but thanks for providing quotes that prove that for me, and also proving yourself to be an idiot while you were at it.
Angus MacNeil, the SNP's rural affairs spokesman, told the BBC that both Shetland and Orkney would be permitted to remain part of the UK regardless of the referendum result "if there was a big enough drive for self-determination" among their residents.
If they did not join a separate Scotland, he said the islands would retain control over a "fair fraction" of the North Sea oil and gas that Alex Salmond is relying on to fund public services.
This merely says that the SNP wouldn't stand in the way if a drive for self determination arose, it says nothing about the relative likelyhood of such an event occurring.
Let's see how likely that is...
Orkney has traditionally been extremely hostile to Scottish independence and preferred Westminster government to that from Holyrood. They were part of Norway, not Scotland, until the late 15th century
However, a 2013 poll found only eight per cent backed leaving Scotland in the event of independence. The islanders overwhelmingly backed remaining in the UK and the European Union at both referendums in 2014 and 2016.
Do you even understand what you quoted?
If Scotland was to declare independence
only 8% of Orkadians were interested in severing ties with the independent Scotland. That's absolutely fuck all. Might be different in Shetland, but there's no chance of Scotland going anywhere without Orkney.
They also have a Lib Dem MP (the last in Scotland) and unionist candidates always pull a solid majority.
Fucking hilarious.
The MP for Orkney and Shetland is
Alistair Cairmichael who in 2015 won with a majority of 817, down from 9928 in the previous GE. That's the first time a majority of under 1000 has been recorded in the seat since 1945. You may remember that a group of constituents crowd-funded an effort to overturn the result after he was caught lying about 'Memo-gate'. He was found to have lied, but not in such a way that allowed the result to be over-turned under election laws.
His SNP opponent in that election has since passed on, so it is unclear whether the next SNP candidate will come as close, but as an example of a 'safe' Unionist seat it's bullshit. (Anecdotally, Shetland would have selected the SNP in that election, but Orkney votes tipped the balance back to the Lib Dems.)
Meanwhile Scottish Fishermen's Federation chief executive Bertie Armstrong said:" The focus of the fishing industry is entirely on ensuring we free ourselves from the straitjacket of the common fisheries policy [CFP], which forces us to give away to other EU countries almost 60 per cent of the fish in our waters.
"Any constitutional arrangement under which we would continue to be bound by the CFP would be unacceptable to the industry."
Scott said: "And so it begins again. Just two years after putting the country through one divisive referendum, the SNP are using the chaos of Brexit to force another one.
This is exactly the sort of stuff I talked about. Shetland fishermen don't like the CFP (though here you've quoted the Scottish federation instead of someone from Shetland for reasons I can't begin to imagine). That hate of the CFP only lasts as long as they aren't getting a worse deal in the Brexit negotiations, which they easily could as it's one of the few legitimate cards the UK has to deal with.
I salute your indefatigability, but just admit you don't have a clue and move on to your next talking point.
P.S. - I know absolutely nothing about Ye Olde Northumbria, if that helps.
