>> Far from being 'settled', the future of these islands now hangs in the balance - with the British constitution thrown up in the air, and a visceral struggle under way to pick up the pieces.

>> It is possible to see a descent into a recriminatory and poisonous mess, which leaves Scotland feeling betrayed, and the rest of the UK aggrieved.

>> The odds on the latter being the outcome have gone up in the hours since the referendum result. The cosy consensus between the leaders of the UK-wide parties,  when they united to beseech Scots not to go, has already been shattered over the "English question".

>> Many Conservative MPs are furious about how much was conceded to Scotland during the climactic days of the referendum campaign.

>> The Scottish question and English question are now entangled. Far from the referendum settling the shape of the Union, there is a hot and fierce after-battle between the parties, and within them, about the future governance of these islands.

>> This struggle will be visceral, because we are not talking about a bit of light constitutional tweaking.

>> Being seen to renege on the pledge to Scotland would be the surest way to pave the way for another independence referendum - and rather sooner than a generation away.

>> Compared with what has been promised to Scotland, what is offered to England looks like feeble tinkering.

>> The population of Yorkshire is much the same size as that of Scotland, and its economy is double the size of that of Wales.

>>  So - is anyone proposing to give that great county of Yorkshire control over all of its income tax? Even just a little bit of its income tax?  No - they're not. They are not even proposing to give English local government full control of all its council tax and business rates...

>> The British constitution has been thrown up in the air. No one is at all sure, the principal actors included, where or when all the pieces are going to land.

>> The Scots voted to give the Union a future. What we've yet to find out is what sort of future -  one renewed, or one poisoned - one long, or one short. Until we know that, we can't trust anyone who claims the Union is safe for "a generation"...

www.theguardian.com/scotland-referendum-is-the-union-secure-for-a-generation