Letters / Leap into the unknown
Centuries of history hang in the balance and a question mark looms over the future of the United Kingdom because of the nationalist’s referendum.
The vote on 18 September is extremely important. This is it; there is no going back.
Only the four million people in Scotland can vote in the referendum although it significantly affects the 63 million people who live in the United Kingdom.
The people of the UK for the past three centuries have worked together, fought wars together, established close business relationships, been educated in each other’s countries, and relied on each other in difficult circumstances.
We currently have the same currency, taxation arrangements, and regulations. The institutional framework of the United Kingdom provides the protection and security that is so increasingly important in these turbulent times.
Friends in England, Wales and Northern Ireland do not want to see us separate from them and many businesses in Scotland have plans to move their operations because of the prospect of an independent Scotland.
And Shetland, at the periphery of Scotland but at the centre of North Sea and Atlantic energy developments, is likely to be most in jeopardy with a leap into the unknown.
Remaining in the UK is the only way to guarantee to keep the pound, keep the single market, benefit from growing stable markets and a buoyant economy, secure trading arrangements, low interest rates, secure jobs and pensions payments and to retain the UK armed forces.
The choice is between the best of both worlds or uncertainty with the currency, the cost of living, jobs, the economy, education, etc.
The facts speak for themselves. Vote NO in the referendum.
Maurice Mullay
Gulberwick
Theo Nicolson
Lerwick
George Jacobson
Virkie
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