During a break in play at the exciting runs-fest in Edinburgh, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader took time out to record a video criticising sectarian posturing:

It's great to be here at the Grange watching this ODI. Scotland are putting a real shift in here, and they could win their first ODI against England. What a result it would be!

And chatting to fans, from either side of the border, I get a definite sense of tiredness when it comes to sectarianism. Nobody wants it, it's seen as old fashioned and both a threat and a distraction from the real issues Scotland faces.

Now, I know that the Liberal Democrats and the Classical Liberals have recently gone into opposition together in Westminster. This I believe is a good move. The current Government is bungling, passive and generally abhorrent. We have done an excellent job in opposition, and now we get a force multiplier. Good job.

But I have to say that the zeal with which the Classical Liberal leader approaches Scotland is off-putting and unhelpful. His views are not reflected by the rest of his party, most of whom I know very well indeed.

And yet he is fighting a campaign here in Scotland that attempts to co-opt sectarian tendencies to support an apparently liberal agenda.

I want to be clear to the people of Scotland. I do not agree with the way the Classical Liberal leader is conducting himself. I do not think that exploiting sectarianism is good under any circumstance. And it is an insult to the more liberal-minded Classical Liberals - that is, most of them - to use sectarianism as a political football.

I hope he sees that to be liberal is to encourage regional self-determination, as the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and those in Wales and England, do. And stoking the embers of hated is not helpful.