ORKNEY and Shetland islanders will insist on the right to determine their own future in a referendum on whether to be part of an independent Scotland or stick with the UK, their MP has warned.
Alistair Carmichael, the Northern Isles' MP, has insisted few Orcadians and Shetlanders support independence and are disenchanted by the centralising control of Edinburgh.
The Coalition Government's deputy chief whip said that if Scots voted to leave the UK the 38,000 or so voters of the Northern Isles would want a second ballot over whether they remain in the UK.
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