I am proudly and patriotically Scottish. I don’t look at English people and see foreigners. I certainly see sporting rivals, but I also see friends, colleagues, and family. To my mind, just because we are to varying degrees Scottish, British and European, it does not follow that loyalty to one must come at the price of denial of the other.

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Douglas Alexander, We’re proudly Scottish - but still British

I don’t like Douglas Alexander much, and don’t usually have much time for anything he says, but I agree with most of this.