Station works

I WAS pleased to read that Queen Street Station high level will be open one day ahead of schedule after the work on the tunnel (Evening Times, June 26).

The five-month period of works have proved extremely inconvenient, so to have services back to normal in the next couple of weeks will be a relief to many Glasgow commuters.

It’s a pity the works on the Glasgow Subway couldn’t have been completed on time.

What must tourists think when they arrive in the city to see replacement bus services parked up in front of stations?

Stewart Lindsay, Glasgow

Democracy?

FOLLOWING the installation of the new Prime Minister and her appointed Government, and the result of the European Referendum to leave the EU, the First Minister is seen scurrying around meeting European dignitaries, appointing a committee of experts seeking ways for Scotland to remain in Europe.

The rhetoric we constantly hear? from her is that it’s the democratic right of the Scottish people to be part of the European Union.

Strange how the First Minister doesn’t recognise the democratic right of the Scottish people who voted to remain as part of the UK.

The UK is the member state and Scotland will not be allowed into the European Union on their own.

The European Referendum was a UK vote which Scotland is part of.

Once again, the SNP are denying the democratic right of the UK people to vote to leave the EU.

Now we hear the First Minister with her half-hearted threats of another Independence referendum, while realistically another referendum is the last thing she needs.

Given the state of the economy, the deficit is over £9billion which would be coupled with the share of the national debt should Scotland leave the UK.

Unemployment is above the UK and would increase further by thousands if Trident was removed from Faslane.

With oil at 44 dollars a barrel, the First Minister’s best option would be to be part of the UK negotiating team and get on with governing the country.

A MacKenzie, Renfrewshire

It’s a deterrent!

I HAD to laugh at the naivety of Peter Wilson about nuclear weapons in the letters page on July 15.

Has it escaped your attention about the threat from North Korea and that Vladimir Putin appears to be at it as well.

It’s a deterrent, Mr Wilson.

Please don’t say talk to them – that’s naivety in the extreme.

Brian Smith, via e-mail