THE pro-UK Better Together campaign has defended its recent online broadcast video featuring an actress voicing concerns about independence.

Amid ongoing criticism the advert is "insulting" and depicts Scottish women as "daft ditherers" who do not understand politics, one Better Together campaigner said: "What I find patronising is the idea that these concerns aren't worthy of discussion or broadcast."

The YouTube video features an actress voicing concerns about independence which Better Together say was drawn from the verbatim comments of women in focus groups and doorstep canvassing.

Better Together urges women to vote No not only for "the love of our country" but for "the love of our families".

But since it was first aired on Tuesday it has come in for sustained criticism, including by sections of the international media, with the actress dubbed "the patronising Better Together Lady".

The Women For Independence claimed "the implication that a No vote is the only choice a mother should be making for her children is insulting". But last night Carole Ford, a mother and former head teacher from Glasgow, who has been campaigning for a No vote said that while canvassing and speaking to people on the street "many women have expressed concerns to me that are the same as those in the broadcast".

She added: "As a mother, my main concern is what the future holds for my son. In the broadcast, she refers to this being a gamble and this is how many women that I have spoken to have described the Nationalists' argument. They don't think there's enough concrete evidence."