They should be most pleased because the result – and the way in which it was negotiated – is a potential catastrophe for the Union. And I say that as someone who understands the sincere motives of those advocating more powers. It might even have been possible, with careful consideration, to devise a fully federal, thought-through solution in which the constituent parts of the UK agreed which taxes would be devolved to the four parts of the UK, with justice for England on voting and a needs based funding formula. Perhaps the Lords could have been replaced with a federal chamber, with the Commons sitting as England's chamber? Who knows? We will never know now, because the chance for a proper look at the UK in a constitutional convention has been lost forever in the unseemly rush to deliver on the daft "vow" given by the Westminster leaders at the instigation of Gordon Brown in the feverish final days of the referendum campaign.