64 is the new 90

If you are over the age of 64 I would urge you to vote on Thursday, preferably for someone over 64; 64 is fast becoming the new 90.

A recent poll conducted for Renewable UK, the industry body, which is supposed to show once and for all that we all love wind turbines, only canvassed those aged 16 to 64.

We seem to be an irrelevance in this brave new green world. We are fit enough to work longer and give the country our savings for negligible interest but a 16-year-old schoolchild’s opinion is of more value.

Celia Hobbs

Peebles Road

Penicuik, Midlothian

I agree very much with Colin McInnes (Letters, 1 May).

The renewables subsidy mechanism drives a grossly regressive transfer of resources, via taxation and fuel bills, from the less well-off to landowners, multinational energy companies, developers, Maitland Mackie (Platform, 28 April) and already prosperous communities such as Shetland which, according to the Scottish Government website, will receive £30 million annually from the wind farm recently approved by ministers.

This reallocation of reserves has no regard for relative need, the normal basis for allocating scarce national resources.

As a consequence, the poor become even more disadvantaged and the rich get relentlessly richer.

John Milne

Ardgowan Drive

Uddingston, Lanarkshire