Shetland has been in the United Kingdom longer than it was ever in the Kingdom of Scotland, if it ever really was.
As another Realm of that Crown, it was decided at the time of the Union to leave it as it was. But parts of Scots Law have been found not to have applied there. It has always been a special case.
And now, it is pondering whether it would want an independent Scotland to have the oilfields and the fisheries that, due to how such maps were drawn, would be Shetland's.
No other part of Scotland would have the same weight of law and history if it tried to make a similar case. Nor is any of them so very far from Edinburgh. But that is not going to stop them from trying.
These things can get out of hand very, very quickly, and with absolutely catastrophic consequences that last for centuries. In each Holyrood constituency, vote for whoever was best placed to defeat the SNP. For the list, vote for the Alliance for Unity.
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