Where have SNP voters gone?

Sir, - Analysis by the Electoral Management Board shows that the SNP got 32.3% of the 1.88 million first preference votes cast in the council elections.

If this had been the case in the independence referendum, when 3.6 million votes were cast, they would have finished up with around 1.2 million Yes votes instead of the 1.6m they actually got.

The No vote would have been 2.4 million, double the Yes vote.

In my simple No-voter brain, this suggests the nationalists have shed 400,000 Yes voters in the last two years.

How long before the will of the Scottish Parliament catches up with the will of the Scottish people and they cancel the demand for a second referendum? Allan Sutherland. 1 Willow Row, Stonehaven.

From the 16 economic levers required to grow an economy, the Scottish Government controls two of them and one of them was just devolved this month: income tax