As I listened to Alex Salmond's speech (April 20) I heard him say that we have a Government that puts Scotland first.

I was nodding in agreement when it dawned on me that he was actually referring to his own SNP administration in Scotland, and that all the wonderful claims of the benefits that his party had introduced north of the border had been achieved with my money, no wonder I'm so hard up.

ALAN KEBBELL, Southampton First candidate for the Swaythling Ward.