Backbone needed

THERE has been an amazing amount of letters criticising Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Government in the Evening Times recently.

It’s almost like an orchestrated campaign.

People in this country have a clear choice to make: either accept that, for the foreseeable future, we are going to be governed by an extreme right wing Government in Westminster which has only one MP in Scotland and has demonstrated its loathing of our country or grow a spinal cord (that includes Labour) and demand that we run our own affairs in an independent and forward looking country.

Anthony Martin, Ryeside Road

Flimsy excuse

REGARDING the proposed drop-off charge at Glasgow airport, (Evening Times January 25) I notice the argument that it will help to discourage non airport traffic.

Who in their right mind would use the drop off area at Glasgow airport for non airport business? Park and walk into Paisley perhaps?

Stobhill hospital used a similar excuse when they tried to introduce parking meters to “discourage none hospital users from parking”.

David Gartshore, by email

Airport delays

I READ with interest Glasgow airport are about to charge for drop offs as well as uplifts.

My wife and I returned from holiday last week and it took us 90 mins from landing to the uplift area where my son was waiting to pick us up.

How can they justify charging £30 plus for over 30 minutes when we have to come through the shambles that is UK border control?

Three times over the last 18 months we have been on average well over an hour to get back into our own country.

We also had the situation where we were held on the plane because there was no unloading ramp available then another 75 mins in a queue at UK border control.

I dread to think how long it will take if and when Brexit happens here.

I hope Glasgow airport takes these situations on board.

John McCrae, by email

New junction

READING about the work starting on a new motorway junction (Evening Times January 27), the reason to open this is to make access to motorway easier.

So why did it close? Oh yes, to stop the traffic going through the village in the first place.

I remember the exit road in its original position. It closed and they used the adjacent field for landfill.

What about the environmental damage from digging that up?

William Findlay, posted online