Not popped into this thread for a bit. What's the opinion North of the border in terms of confidence about getting Westminster to honour their promises?
Like Pogo says, neither Yes nor No voters are abating their breath.
It's interesting that this question of "accepting the result" is still being raised by the No side. You may remember that it surfaced here on this thread prior to the vote. It turns out that what it means is not "you should concede that you didn't win", but rather, "you should change your opinions now: stop thinking independence worthwhile; stop criticizing the way the Vow is progressing; become a good Unionist convert". Whenever Yes figures point out the backtracking, (on devo more, on the NHS turning out not to be safe with the Union after all, and so on) newspaper columnists, Labour apparatchiks, self-appointed social media legends, cue up to say: "get over it; you lost". This seems to imply the pledges didn't count. Power has been retained by Westminster, and Westminster can do as it pleases, no matter what it may have promised when it had the referendum's gun to its head. "Accept the result" seems to mean "shut the fuck up".
That Brown had to plead for a petition to "pressure" Cameron to keep his Vow shows exactly what authority Brown had to make his promise of "close to federalism": less than none.
I was at a party on Friday at the house of a couple of No voting friends. They were telling me that they thought that this cycle of broken promises and fulfilled doom prophesies would lead, bit by bit, to independence anyway. This, they opined, was a good thing, and better than the clean break we could have had. I am perplexed by such a view, and note only that they voted Lib Dem in 2010.
