SHOULD Glasgow spend the next few years getting families back on their feet after five years of the Tories?

Or should we go back to rerunning last year's debate on the referendum?

That's the choice now in Scotland - it's between Labour's plan for a fairer Scotland or the SNP's road to a second referendum.

No matter how you voted last year, surely we should spend the next few years making Scotland fairer. Labour's pledges guarantee a job for all young people and fund 1000 more nurses for Scotland's NHS. These are the things we will put at the top of our to-do list in government.

It's clear the SNP have very different priorities, which start and end with getting another referendum on independence.

When we go to the ballot box next week there is a pretty stark choice facing us.

We can vote for Labour, which will put us on the road to a fairer economy.

Or we can veer off on the road to a second referendum with the SNP.

You know, when Nicola Sturgeon told us last year that the referendum was a once in a generation event I believed her.

It seems I was wrong to do so.

SNP candidates across the country, including the party's Deputy Leader Stewart Hosie, have made clear time and again that they would use a good result in the election next week as a stepping stone to another referendum.

I know more than most how passionate the referendum last year was.

Taking to the streets across the country I saw first-hand the energy and enthusiasm people felt for politics, on both sides.

But we can't pretend it wasn't a divisive two years for Scotland. Families set against one another, work places divided.

We can't go back to that.

Our decision has been made and it should be respected.

There is too much to be done to spend more years debating the constitution.

Our NHS hasn't met A&E waiting times in nearly 300 weeks.

Working class kids are getting left behind by our schools system.

And too many families in work are relying on foodbanks to feed their kids.

At a time when there is so much inequality and injustice in our society, tackling these big issues should be the priority.

That's exactly what a Labour Government will do.

We'll ban exploitative zero hours contracts that do so much damage to families across Glasgow.

As well as making sure people have regular hours at work we'll make sure they get a decent day's pay. The previous Labour Government introduced the minimum wage and the next Labour Government will increase it to at least £8 an hour.

But we want to go further, so we will work for a living wage to give hundreds of thousands of Scots a wage rise - something that will particularly benefit women here in Glasgow.

All of this is only possible with a Labour Government.

People can protest against the Tories by voting for lots of different parties, like the SNP and the Greens. But there's only one way to replace the Tories and that's with Labour.

A vote for anyone other than Labour risks the Tories being the largest party across the UK and David Cameron swanning back into Downing Street. Scotland, and Glasgow in particular, can stop that from happening by voting Labour. It's an opportunity we should seize.

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Every passing hour brings news of more deaths in Nepal following the horrific earthquake at the weekend.

Words can't do justice to the extent of the tragedy or the suffering of thousands of families as they seek to rescue trapped loves ones and quite literally pick up the pieces of their lives.

I won't have been the only person watching the pictures on the TV at the weekend with a sense of helplessness.

But we can do our bit.

Times are tough for many working families in Glasgow just now, but I would encourage people to give anything they can spare to SCIAF 's emergency appeal.

You can find out more information at www.sciaf.org.uk