“The last thing the Northern Isles want is to be ruled by Glasgow trade unionists and Edinburgh lawyers…”

At the Guardian’s Scotland Blog, Severin Carrell notes the independently-minded Shetland and Orkney Lib Dem MSPs Tavish Scott and Liam McArthur’s attempt to play Alex Salmond at his own game – with a joint, “at best provocative and, in constitutional terms, at least playful”, submission to the UK government’s consultation on the independence referendum.  Short BBC video report here.  From the Guardian’s Scotland Blog Scott and McArthur have reinvigorated a long-standing notion that the former Viking earldoms of Shetland and Orkney have …

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