There is definitely a pretty strong element of 'us vs. them' with the SNP, but I wouldn't say it's any different to the same sort of thing which happens in almo

There is definitely a pretty strong element of 'us vs. them' with the SNP, but I wouldn't say it's any different to the same sort of thing which happens in almost any nation state. i.e. they're nationalist in the same way that a French person believes that France should be a nation. There is, I would say, unpleasantness and irrationality in it, but no more so than in the usual way that people rally round to defend against foreign criticism, or judge practices or ideas in terms of whether they are 'truly British', 'anti-American', or whatever.