I don't think the UK will let go of them... Strategically, Scapa Flow is incredibly important and played a huge part in both world wars.

This is a quite clever publicity drive to get some more money, nothing more. Good luck to them - although I recently visited and the roads were in better condition than those in my county in England, and the ferry services (Except Pentland was still down) were excellent. Quality of living looked (admittedly, through the eyes of an outsider in summer) pretty good too, certainly equal to similar rural parts of Cornwall and large areas of Wales)

I had to check it wasn’t April 1st.

Fair play to them, if they think they can do better elsewhere then have at it.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if we just decided to split the UK up to its shires. Each operating independently and requiring a passport to travel through.

Weren't they technically only on loan to us, and supposed to be returned - but as with most things we "borrowed" we kind of forgot the islands weren't ours?

Fucking lol. What a nothing burger. The UK is going to say, no way. Your oil and territory is ours. Your opinion is irrelivant.

I might understand if it was Shetland. We often leave them off the map anyway and they are a long way away, but orkney is pretty much just offshore.

Orknoitexit, orkyesitis!