THE winter fuel allowance started because people in Scotland endure harsher winters than the rest of Britain, but now every pensioner in Britain can get it.

It is not means tested so the OAP millionaires, the rich, the middle classes, and the paupers receives £200 fuel allowance all exactly the same.

It just doesn’t make sense. Why can’t a system be devised by looking at yearly tax returns and if anyone has a nett income less than, say, £18,000.00 then they should be entitled the fuel allowance payment?

I mean, not just the pensioners but the single mothers, and anybody living in poverty we have to stop pandering to the rich and start looking after the poor.

Rosemary Keery, Gordon Drive, Glasgow

SNP NOT TO BLAME

JIM Tees states that the SNP is to blame for the Tories getting back into power.

I totally disagree.

The Tories called this election thinking they were going to walk it with a landslide.

When you have the leaders of the three other main parties in Scotland talking continually about independence and little else, and the leader of Scottish Labour actually encouraging people to vote Tory (unbelievable) to keep the SNP out, I know who I blame for this fiasco.

Anthony Martin, Ryeside Road, Glasgow

SORT OUT ISSUES

I READ with mounting surprise that the council have gone back on the cast iron promise that my local councillor Stephen Dornan made during the recent elections. (Evening Times June 13)

He put round a letter, said at endless G51 campaign meetings and I understand to my local community council that he guaranteed free residents parking - and that the SNP leader Susan Aitken agreed.

Was he misinformed?

Perhaps Mr Dornan should focus on sorting out issues in Govan properly rather than swanning around in taxis paid for by the tax payer.

Tony McLean, Drumoyne

TIME’S UP NICOLA

DESPITE this being a Westminster election, Nicola Sturgeon muscled her way in, pushing Angus Robertson to one side and flying about in helicopters.

She cost 21 of her colleagues their jobs. Yes, Theresa May had a howler, but so did Sturgeon.

She’s always at the front of the queue calling for people to resign.

Maybe she should take some of her own advice?

David Paterson, posted online