Alexander McKay confuses Yes voters with SNP voters (SNP is the party of the protest vote, Letters, November 9).

I voted Yes in the referendum not because I am pro-SNP, but because I despair of the rudderless Coalition government in Westminster. I think the message from the referendum is that many Scots want more devolution, but were unconvinced by the amateurish approach of the Yes campaign to currency issues, for example.

It makes sense to vote SNP when the only other major political party in Scotland - Scottish Labour - has ensured the temporary victory of a No vote by wheeling out Gordon Brown to promise increased powers for Holyrood. Henry McLeish and Jack McConnell were put firmly in their place by Blair, Brown and the Westminster establishment if they dared show any initiative.

The SNP is answerable to the Scottish electorate rather than to remote masters in London; it therefore has a better chance of delivering those Unionist pledges.

Graeme Orr

Neilston