Tory solution
Instead of wallowing in the prejudices listed with depressing accuracy by Philip Lardner (Letters, same day), they could follow their better instincts of self-reliance and enterprise by abandoning their support for "unionism" and advocating an independent Scotland based on low tax rates, highly skilled jobs and wealth creation.
Any support they lost from the plus-fours and blue-rinse brigade would be more than compensated by new support gained from more enlightened Scots. After all, what do they have to lose?
SOPHIE L ANDERSON
Marchmont Road
Edinburgh