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[Eirikur]

Orkney Islands investigating to become part of Norway

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...tland-66066448

[woohoo]

Using independence as leverage for extra funding, wonder where they got that from

[SueEllen]

I think they should go for it.

[edison]

Is it too early to start calling it Orkxit?

Sounds like they want to return to the Norwegian motherland from the 15th century

[vetran]

"And the funding we get from the Scottish government is significantly less per head than Shetland and the Western Isles to run the same services - we can't go on as we are."

Sorry they spent it all on a 'campaign' bus!

[wattaj]

I think they should go for it.

So do I. It would be a salutatory lesson in getting what you asked for: eyewateringly higher taxes for little obvious return... though they might get a decent ferry out of it.

[ladymuck]

So do I. It would be a salutatory lesson in getting what you asked for: eyewateringly higher taxes for little obvious return... though they might get a decent ferry out of it.

But a ferry to where?

[SueEllen]

But a ferry to where?

Norway

[vetran]

But a ferry to where?

across the Mersey of course

[woohoo]

across the Mersey of course

New Brighton is nice at this time of the year.