"I voted Yes and don't want them"
Do you mean you want all (independence - SNP version?) or nothing?
The No campaign - ie Con/Lab/Dem - messed up by not allowing the third (DevoSomething) question. Then got spooked by a rogue poll that put Yes ahead.
So last minute offers of "more powers" - unspecified, unagree - and unleashed a former PM backbencher for a few days.
Most people who voted Yes still want some things to be different.
Some No voters wanted 'no change'. Well that was NEVER an option!
Some people in England are now thinking about 'devolution' - and there have been vague promises of 'more powers to big cities', oh and "English votes for English Laws".
Scotland has got the Smith process.
If by some miracle of hard thinking and hatchet burying the proposals are acceptable to 'all' (by "all" I mean political parties - whether they should be the ones that get to decide is a different issue!) then some progress will have been made.
What the parties put in their manifestos for next year is largely unknown. Could the No parties really use exactly the same words about 'more powers/devo'?
The SNP will say 'vote for us to get a better chance of things happening soon/smoothly. Unfortunately - from their point of view - unless Labour completely implodes in Scotland before next May, they will not pick up many seats (might actually lose a couple away from the Central Belt).
For 2016 the SNP would be foolish to have 'another referendum in the next five years' in its manifesto - but it could if things go 'badly' (and that would be without the SNP doing anything to sabotage things).
Whatever the intentions/desires of people (individually and collectively) the second they crossed their ballot papers, things have moved on.
As they say - 'the pieces were thrown up in the air and they haven't all landed yet' - whatever those who say "you lost" might wish.
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