I could not agree more with Tommy Gorman about Gordon Matheson's column comment.

He had hit the nail on the head. Mr Matheson and his over paid cohorts in Glasgow City Council are shameless.When the Commonwealth Games were approaching they made savage cuts to social work, both in staff and services.

I have many ailments chest, heart and stroke to mention a few and had a service provider who took me out each Tuesday morning for two and a half hours where we shopped and had a natter.

My wife was terminally ill with cancer. After her death I got a letter from the council informing me that I would be charged £120 per month for 10 hours care. I had to cancel that and now order my groceries by phone. I pay for a pendant for community alarm which I do not grudge.

Our local OAP welfare centre in Fulton Street has to ask pensioners for £25 for a day in plus a meal. As a result many are now stuck at home. I and many others will be glad to see the back of Mr Matheson and the rest of his Ian Duncan Smith clones.

Alexander Lindsay, Knightswood, via email

Where were the all the various union leaders that are calling for Jim Murphy to resign and Alex Rowley MSP singing the same song.

Trying to make him the scapegoat for Labour's thrashing in Scotland, well I'll tell you, they were nowhere.

Love him or loathe him he had the backbone during the referendum campaign to go out into the streets with his soapbox and amid all the abuse he got trying to get the labour message to the people.

During the five months he had as Labour leader before the General Election he worked his socks off trying to motivate a party that had been for the previous five years in terminal decline. His critics all that time sat on there hands and did nothing. They have no shame.

At least he tried, but alas miracles were in short supply.

The trade union leaders would be better suited concentrating there minds on the problems facing the workers at the Scotstoun and Rosyth shipyards and all the other areas where workers are losing their jobs.

Charles Milligan, Livingston, via email

Nicola Sturgeon keeps telling us that "the people will decide" on whether or not we should have another independence referendum, but she never explains how it is that our decision is to be made. Will we be given a referendum on whether or not be should have another referendum?

Keith Gilmour, Glasgow, via email

I wonder if contained within apparent snow storm of correspondence sent by Prince Charles initially to Blair and Salmond, he has expressed his up to date concern over the growth of food banks his 'subjects' are having to use to provide food for their kids.

Surely not ' let them eat cake.'

Alan J Morgan, via email