Anyone but England — “ABE” — has long been a rallying cry for Scotland football supporters during international games.
It got Andy Murray into hot water when he voiced it during the 2006 World Cup. HMV was forced to remove ABE banners from its Scottish stores during the 2010 competition after complaints to the police that it incited racial hatred. Police also issued a warning to Slanj Kilts for marketing Anyone But England T-shirts around the same time. For many on both sides of the border, this is the ugly side of nationalism, the pantomime villain in the independence debate.
The Scottish National party, which has worked hard to include English people living in Scotland in its campaigns along with “new Scots” of all nationalities,