No consolation prizes for Yes
Yet, astonishingly, it appears that the No side want to lay out a nice comfy bed, filled with consolation prizes for the separatists to bounce back on, the very next day.
This will enable Mr Salmond to claim victory in defeat. He will boast about how he has extracted all these “promises of new powers”. He will argue that it is now only a matter of time before Scotland has moved far enough away from the rest of the UK to vote Yes.
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Hide AdThe “unionists”, meanwhile, will have provided the rope with which to hang themselves, if they “do not make good on their promises”.
The political rejuvenation of the nationalist movement will be assured. The “unionist” parties will only have themselves to blame.
A perfect opportunity to destroy organised political nationalism is being put at risk through a devolutionary obsession demanded only by those who work in the remunerated Scottish political sector, those who study it and those who report upon it.
Alistair McConnachie, Glasgow