Points of View: Council cutbacks yet thousands spent on fireworks

and move a historic event for a football game. Sums up the council.

S Johnstone, via email

WHERE are all the rich pensioners? The only ones I know have a company pension or a self invested pension for the ordinary pensioner without either of these two they are living in very poor circumstances indeed. I started work when I was 15 in 1957 paying the full stamp until I married at 20. Then because of the poor salary paid to women in office work,I elected to pay the married woman’s stamp this meant that I paid less but paid full tax on my earnings and my employer still paid full employers National Insurance throughout my working life until I retired at 60.

I was then assessed for my pension which came to the princely sum of 18pence per week. Because my husband was 18 months older than me and his retirement age was 65 I could not get a pension based on his contributions until I was almost 64. So even although I paid in many thousands of pounds through my taxes and full employers NI I was deemed to have not any right to a pension and had to depend on my husbands contributions to receive any pension at all. I and many other women in my position feel cheated and with good reason.

Rosemary Keery, Glasgow, via email

OH! help - it's that time again! Oh! yes it is.

Christmas Panto in Glesga - fandabidozzi. Ye cannie whack it. Maw, Paw and the Waens 'out for the night.'

Got the tickets for the SECC with The Krankies- got the tickets for The Pavilion with The River City Crew - so far so good, but 'help ma boab' what's this - an additional £4 to be added on for The Kings Theatre.

You cannot be serious man. It already costs and arm and a leg - voted with my feet and gave The Kings a miss - what a shame - Rab.C. would definitely not approve.

Come on Glasgow - where's your Christmas spirit? Get real and drop the extras - whose the bad one?

From an Evening Times Reader, true Glaswegian & Panto Fan, via email