Looks like the good people of Orkney have had enough of this too.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18715728.break-scotland-now-orkney-talks-independence/?ref=fbshr

Didnt Alex Salmond try to knock back a request from islanders about staying in the UK pre indy ref? .They were asking I think in case Nippys mob  won.Might have been paper talk