Food intolerance

£346,000, hardly “affordable”.

There must be ways of chopping these prices to meet the Shelter “affordable” benchmark of 35 per cent of take home pay without building ugly houses in ghettoes.

The Tory revival began last year through their seizure of the pro-uk, anti-snp, independence and Indyref2 high ground. The obvious next step has been to create a vision and workable, radical set of policies and halt the decline of 18 years of unambitious, fingerin-the-dyke, often incompetent, devolved politics.

Whatever your politics or suspicion of Ms Davidson’s motivations, we need to move on from the defunct, knuckledragging politics of Indyref2. ALLAN SUTHERLAND Willow Row, Stonehaven has been delayed in a moratorium by the SNP Government so as to keep the Green Party on side.

That hardly bespeaks an intention to exploit our natural resources for the good of the nation or our people, nor even to help make “independence” a realistic prospect, bearing in mind the cash support from down South.

Obviously, testing the safety and efficacy of fracking, and the development of safe regulation of this “unconventional” mining process is a prerequisite, but activity beyond a moratorium has become essential.

Does the Scottish Government mean business or not, beyond seeking to separate from the UK?

If they can do that, whence would come the vital money? (DR) CHARLES WARDROP Viewlands Road West, Perth plant, can anyone explain how further over-capacity from the NNG project (The Scotsman, 29 August) can contribute 0.6 per cent to Scottish GDP?

It is a strange economy that can receive £827 million from a unit that will never generate a single unit for Scottish consumers.

The only way it appears possible for NNG to make a profit is by receiving £27 million a year in constraint payments largely funded by the 40 per cent of Scots living in fuel poverty.

As MSPS broke their pledge to eliminate such poverty by 2016, will Holyrood pay a QC to represent the 40 per cent should there be a Supreme Court hearing, as their voice does not appear to be heard over the merits of installing further surplus generation plant?

IAN MOIR Queen Street, Castle Douglas Although I have some agreement with what Stephen Jardine is writing about (“Awkward customers are not always right,” 2 September), nevertheless he seems to be a bit dismissive about those who have a genuine intolerance for certain foodstuffs.

When asking for a jug of water in a restaurant, invariably it comes with a slice of lemon and ice – even sometimes when you have asked for just plain water with no lemon.

In my wife’s case she is intolerant of citrus because of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), it is not about being fussy. The same happens with fresh fruit salad, almost always it is made up with orange juice.

I recognise that some people are just plain awkward, but some folk have a genuine reason when asking for certain things.

BILL ELLIOT Newbattle Abbey Crescent,

Dalkeith