Full muckle jacket

The ability of our MSPs to live lavish lifestyles at our expense never fails to amaze me, and the latest episode relating to Frank McAveety, the minister for tourism, culture and sport, and his jacket (your report, 6 September) comes as no surprise.

Has the man no sensitivity or conscience?

Considering the overblown salaries our MSPs awarded themselves, I’m astounded that he cannot afford the price of a jacket to go with the kilt which he apparently managed to buy with his own money.

When the First Minister, Jack McConnell, has a cabinet reshuffle, will it be a pre-requisite that Mr McAveety’s successor must fit the present incumbent’s kilt jacket?

DAVID W ELDER

Knox Place

Haddington, East Lothian