Capital offense
Sir: Rod Liddle (‘Scottish Nationalism is compelling’, 5 May) suffers from a Londoners’ depressing delusion that West Country dwellers should demonstrate servility towards those joining the weekend and summer-long invasion of the west by swarms of refugees from our capital. They clog our roads and upon arrival moan about how hard their voluntarily chosen mode of life is. They roll up to their occasionally occupied second homes well provided from their hometown Waitrose: their cash outlay on our patch is often modest indeed.
I visit London every week expending vast sums in its over-priced hotels and restaurants, but I accept it as something I choose to do: I do not expect forelock tugging or curtseying staff at every place I visit.
Rod didn’t even get the Cornish term for invaders right. They are called Grockles in Devon; in Cornwall they are identified as Emmets. Recently it was decided, in the interests of efficiency and common approach, to merge the two names and term them haemorrhoids. After all, they are a pain in the arse and hang around in bunches.
Robert Lefroy Somerset
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