So, as highlighted in the last post, we have been promised "home rule", "nothing less". Home rule/devo max means that we have control of all our affairs bar our currency, defence and foreign relations. And just as I accept we lost the referendum, I expect the No side to honour that commitment.
And on reflection, why on earth would they not? I have reminded myself of the "arguments" made against independence over these last two years. I don't think I've missed anything major out:
- Won't be able to use the pound
- Hate Alex Salmond
- Will be kicked out the EU
- Will have to use the Euro
- Won't get into NATO
- Not proper independence
- Proud Scot, proud Brit
- More liable to attack from international terrorists
- More liable to attack from outer space
- Won't get the BBC
- Guards and snarling Alsatian dogs at Gretna
- Complex warships only ever built in Britain
- Jobs will go at Faslane
- Food will be dearer
- Eddie Izzard etc love us
- Will have to drive on the right
Of all those "arguments" against independence - of every last, blessed one of them - there's only one that could possibly apply to honouring the commitment to home rule. And as I've said, ad nauseam now, I accept we lost. So I'll accept too the fact that what we'll be getting, for now at any rate, is not "proper independence".
So. We're all agreed then?
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