What has happened to the Labour Party? It is no longer the party of the ordinary working class.

We have a leader in London who I personally would not put in charge of running a bus never mind running a country. In Scotland Kezia Dugdale seems completely out of her depth.

Ruth Davidson is wasting her time trying to garner votes for the Tories. The Greens are willing to sell their souls for a wee shot at being the power holders and the Liberals are quite happy to have a place in the parliament, leaving the SNP to run roughshod in their obsessive drive for independence.

Labour has to wake up to their own failings as an opposition party and do something about it before it’s too late.

Rosemary Keery, via email

MPs under fire

I see that George Osborne has taken on another job as well as staying on as a MP.

I do not know how many other MPs are doing the same, but I think what we need to do is make these MPs clock in and out of Westminster so we can check how long they spend on their parliamentary duties.

Or even better, why not put them on zero hours contracts and pay them as and when they carry out their parliamentary duties.

Jim Tees, via email

Proud Scots

With regards to the insulting letter about unionist hysteria against the SNP, I am so annoyed at this innuendo.

My grandfathers, my uncles and my father were true Scots who fought for King and country, not to hand Scotland over to a government who puts others in front of the people of Scotland. Open your eyes Mr Martin and see what’s happening to our beloved country.

Flora Christie, via email

Voters to choose

Scotland is at a crossroads. It hasn’t voted Tory in 60 years but we have a Tory Prime Minister who will even drag Scotland out of the European single market despite a clear majority in Scotland voting to Remain in the EU.

Whilst the UK as a whole may have voted to leave the EU it is questionable it voted to leave the single market since so many arguments by the Leave campaign were based on retaining that membership.

Scotland will have a choice on whether it wants to be an independent country or not. But the question will be more than just ‘Do you want Scotland to be an independent country?’

It will also be ‘If you could never vote to have a Tory government for just five years, why vote No to have Tory governments Scotland doesn’t elect for decades to come?’

Bill Wallace, Wyndford Road, Glasgow