I think your answer to Q1 has something in common with an indepedent Scotland would vote for a government that is in accord with the social democratic tendency of the Scots.

It would cost less than £50m to write to each Ancestral Scot and invite them to apply for citizenship.

Australia, from time to time, has put location restrictions on immigration. If we were swamped with applicants we could always restrict their visas to Shetland and Lewis and Harris.

Frankly, even during the Festival not much happens here. Place is a deadend, I don't know why anyone bothers coming.