Tax developers

READING about divided opinion on student flats (Evening Times January 20), I agree students shouldn’t pay council tax as they are on a low income, but the fat cat developers should be paying.

Why should we have a council tax increase when these rich property developers are laughing all the way to the bank?

Why should their use of bins, clean water, lighting, council services, libraries, art galleries etc why should that all be do free when the rest of us pay a fortune?

Liz Boyd, posted online

No open borders

READING Nicola Sturgeon’s comments about Scotland moving closer to a second independence referendum after Theresa May’s Brexit speech (Evening Times January 17), I voted to leave because I do not want open borders where anyone from the EU who wants to can come and scrounge off of our benefits system and use our NHS without paying into it.

I assumed when I was voting that voting to leave would mean leaving the single market.

I also assumed that voting to leave would give us controls over who, and in what numbers, we allow the privilege of coming to live and work here.

If Nicola Sturgeon is too thick to realise that this is what the majority of those who voted want, then quite frankly she should resign immediately.

Karen McClay, posted online

Give up day job

NICOLA Sturgeon can now get on with organising her referendum vote.

Can I add a pre-requisite, if (I mean when) you lose another referendum vote, will you please resign, because you are not up to doing your day job.

Linda Ferguson, posted online

Mouthpiece

READING about Ruth Davidson’s plans to write a book on successful women, what does she known about being successful?

Does she regard being a shallow superficial puppet of Westminster Tories as success?

She used to be an individual but she is only a mouthpiece of London.

Ian Walker, posted online

Low standards

RE Ruth Davidson’s book, if you call joining a party that has overseen a rise in homelessness, massive social inequality, doctors on strike, and services crumbling a success, then we have seriously lowered our standards.

Carol Daly, posted online