Mapped out

Shetland’s MSP, Tavish Scott of the Liberal Democrats, is proposing new laws that would ensure that the islands are put “in the right place” on official maps of Scotland amid growing anger at them being featured in an enclosed box in the wrong part of the country. Mr Scott said: “Shetlanders are rightly irked when they see Shetland placed in a box in the Moray Firth.”

They 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 gasrich 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

Those route maps they have on planes. Well, the little aircraft that move across the map, they’re not to scale.

Freewheel

Good point. The sun isn’t to scale either on the weather map. Perhaps I need to get a larger screen TV to accommodate these changes.

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