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Salmond likes to portray all this as a friendly break-up and has described an independent Scotland as changing from a 'surly lodger to a good neighbour'. Underneath at that PR nonsense there is a general sneering nastiness which underlies the SNP's attitudes to the English in particular and their opponents in general. They try to dress it up in positives but they can't hide the fact that their campaign relies heavily on stoking up anti-English sentiment at every opportunity. Press them on the facts and it doesn't take long before things get personal and ugly which betrays, to my mind anyway, the reality of what they're trying to do.