Council cheek

GLASGOW city council has said there will be a rise in council tax payments, to enable them to maintain there services, such as not empting rubbish bins, not empting recycling bins, not sweeping the streets of leaves, not collecting cut grass from parks and not repairing potholes.

Yet they have a cheek to ask for an increase in council tax.

Isobel McVey, by email

Thank fans

READING about the Simon Community thanking Rangers for a £17,000 donation (Evening Times January 23), I’d like to say well done to all who contributed and the time and effort given, but the I believe the headline is misleading.

It was the fans who collected the money and not the club or board members so all credit and thanks goes to the real bears that put in the time and effort and not the suits in the boardroom.

Oscar Kiera, posted online

Warped compass

IT was interesting to see opposition parties recently queue up to attack the Transport Minister, demanding his resignation over delayed trains. (Evening Times January 13).

A nuclear missile veers off-course, heading towards the US. This is then covered up, and those parties make no call for the Secretary of State for Defence to resign.

It shows how warped our moral compass has become when a broken down train is placed higher than a misfiring nuclear missile.

Alex Orr, by email

No EU guarantee

READING about Alex Salmond predicting a second Indyref by autumn next year, (Evening Times January 19), what guarantees are there of being allowed back in the EU if independence is gained?

None from what I’ve read. We would need to apply to join again and is that what the public really wants?

Derek Maunders, posted online

Too risky

AT the last referendum people said “fear beat hope”.

That is probably true but I would also say that the SNP did not do enough to show that Scotland could survive.

The oil industry is being battered and that is a huge source of money to Scotland yet some (not all) want independence at ANY cost. That is crazy to me.

The Tories are no friend to Scotland and Labour have failed the country many times but it could be much worse and independence for some is too big a risk.

Liam Gorman, posted online