Ah, I see what your saying.
I think after the Yes vote and [cans] (
) stages, we’re into uncharted territory where Westminster has lost the moral high ground or any meaningful legal default position it would take/is taking right up until the point where a Yes vote becomes reality. Agreed that, for sure, there’d be surface level good faith vs underlying stuff for [period of time] after that, but I can’t see stasis as a viable default post-Yes.
I wouldn’t rule out the EU playing a major role as a counter-weight to any Westminster resistance (fast-tracked provisional membership - something like that?). Which would differ from the Brexit negotiations (where what Holyrood wanted could be easily ignored).
I’m attaching around for a better phrase than there being plenty of satisfactory ‘landing zones’ that aren’t yet visible, but will certainly become sharply apparent before too long. And I concede that is easily spun as a ‘jump into the unknown’. But after somehow careering through (the basic initial negotiations for) Brexit (albeit somewhat worse for wear), there’s a rubicon that’s been crossed in terms of us jumping and surviving - so that particular barb has somewhat lost its point.
