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The Orkney and Shetland Movement was an electoral coalition formed for the 1987 general election. The pro-devolution Orkney Movement and Shetland Movement agreed on selecting John Goodlad, the secretary of the Shetland Fishermen's Association, as a joint candidate for the Orkney and Shetland constituency. The Scottish National Party agreed to stand aside in favour of the coalition. Their candidate won 3,095 votes, which represented 14.5% of the vote in the small seat, but came fourth, just behind the Labour Party, the best result at the time for a candidate not from one of the four main parties in Scotland. They took part in the 1989 Scottish Constitutional Convention that developed a framework for the eventual Scottish devolution in 1999. It saw as its models the Isle of Man, and Shetland's closest neighbour, the Faroe Islands, an autonomous dependency of Denmark.〔Tallack, Malachy (2 April 2007) (Fair Isle: Independence thinking ). London. ''New Statesman''.〕 == References == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orkney and Shetland Movement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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