'˜They'll rejoin Norway': Readers react to Shetland map '˜problem'
Mr Scott said: “Shetlanders are rightly irked when they see Shetland placed in a box in the Moray Firth.”
It was a story that caused a stir among many of The Scotsman’s readers too...
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Hide AdThey {Scottish Government] really are getting petty, It’s put in the box simply due to scale and space on the paper. - Jim Thomas
Do as Shetland’s MSP demands or the oil and gas-rich archipelago will vote to secede and rejoin Norway! - Hog_Weed
The SNP don’t care about Shetland – they want to make it look like a sideshow. Glasgow and Dundee is all the SNP care about, and little else. They certainly have a policy of despising Edinburgh. - oneworld72
Oh, to live at a time when all the big political issues, health, education, housing, the economy etc, have been sorted and our politicians can trouble themselves with trivial irritations.- fc
Life, for most people, is a series of small events which have importance to them. For Tavish, his islands’ place on the map (now, rather than when he was a minister) is to the forefront of his concerns. Judge him as you like. - gavin
Where is the demand for Raasay, Muck, Eigg, Canna to be reinstated on that map? St Kilda does not appear either, nor a host of uninhabited islands around the coast. I demand that these ALL appear at scale. - Bibio
The US does the same for maps that include Hawaii and Alaska... -Common Sensei
But some readers could see the sense in the SNP MSP’s suggestion..
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Hide AdOn nautical charts it matters. Your boat gives out a nasty crunchy sound otherwise. - old clothes and porridge
I agree wholly. - Berlin Calling
If we are to represent the whole of Scotland to scale, the Central Belt will look so much more insignificant. Good. - SoHot
We’ll leave Jenny with the final word and a potential solution.
Surely the obvious answer to the Shetland problem is a small black arrow at the top of the box with the words “100 miles”? - Jenny Martin