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if Cameron, Miliband, Brown and Clegg renege on the promises made, they'll kill their own political futures in Scotland, further damage their parties
The problem you have there is that Cameron presently has power in the UK and the Tories already have virtually no power in Scotland. The threat of less power if they ignore or dilute their promises is effectively empty. The Tories will do what the Tories always do, accelerate and hope to spin things off into private hands, which is their equivalent of leaving the Church stuff in your will... it's damn hard to reverse.
Only Labour have a significant amount to lose (and gain), but that only works if it at all looks likely that Scotland's voters will back Labour. I wouldn't bang the drum of indistinguishableness from the Tories too loudly.
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The reanimated Scottish Labour frankenstein of Gordon Brown on the political horizon offers little solace or hope, and career politicians like Jim Murphy crying crocodile tears for the last few weeks hasn't done much to endear them, even if they weren't totally subject to the UK labour agenda.
Miliband's already endorsed Tory policies and as a politician is about as inspiring as a pigeon pecking at dog shit. I see little to gain by the Scots repeatedly giving them a majority they don't deserve and take for granted.
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He has just got a modicum of integrity, unlike his counterparts in other parties.
As far as I, or anyone else who voted Yes I've spoken to is concerned, if Cameron, Miliband, Brown and Clegg renege on the promises made, they'll kill their own political futures in Scotland, further damage their parties, and give the SNP the mandate to call another referendum much sooner than 20 years.
The next general election Scotland gets the choice of voting for a Labour party that's barely discernible from the Tories as the only alternative to a dangerous rightwing clown like Boris trying to appease UKIP, or, of course, voting for the cadaver of Nick Clegg and the wonderful things he's achieved in power.
I don't see much to be positive about there, and it just underlines how dysfunctional UK politics is. The 'root and branch' reform will fizzle out like the banking reforms, the press reforms or anything else. Even last night as the vote had just been called John Reid is trying to backpedal and say that 'it wasn't a vote for independence, it was a protest vote'. No it fucking wasn't.
The celebrations of Darling are equally rancid-the man's as competent as his management of both the campaign and the economy imply and yet he still tries to type cast the Yes campaigners as violent thugs and the No's as the well behaved quiet people who've done what they're told.
UK can fuck off-thankfully Farage might be useful for taking England out of both Europe and Britain at the same time, and you'll deserve what you get when it arrives as it isn't the same nationalism as in Scotland.