THE attacks on Jeremy Corbyn by Theresa May and Boris Johnston show how far out of touch with reality these people are.

Why did 632 British soldiers die in Iraq and Afghanistan? This was supposed to help with security in this country but it failed.

Afghanistan is still a breeding ground for terrorism, Iraq is a sectarian nightmare and apparently the biggest danger is the fanatics in Pakistan.

If any of the arrests in Manchester prove to have dual passports their British one should immediately revoked.

William Allan, Hawthorn Terrace, East Kilbride

Pro-austerity EU

READING about the SNP planning to end austerity (Evening Times May 29), I’m no economist but the EU masters that the SNP wish to be aligned with are all about austerity to the point that Greece is almost broken as a country.

How can the SNP reconcile themselves as an anti-austerity party with a pro-austerity EU?

James Walker, posted online

No 'proper job'

IN relation to the story about Labour’s new faces in Glasgow (Evening Times May 29), I wonder how many of them have came straight from university and entered the political arena from there.

I have noticed in the past that many candidates worked as researchers or in some capacity for the previous lot of MPs, MSPs and councillors.

Not many have worked a proper job as I call it.

They have no connection to the labour voters.

Robert Smith, posted online

No public cash

READING about Scotland being ‘on the cusp’ of sending a satellite into orbit (Evening Times online May 28), we apparently cannot afford to look after our sick and our vulnerable and we apparently cannot afford to give pensioners what they are lawfully entitled to.

We are also told schools meals need to be cut back on and there is a shortage of police officers to defend our nation etc.

NO public funds whatsoever should be given to such ‘space travel projects’ however inventive people may seem to be.

Tens of millions have gone into ‘Prestwick’ already and, while I recognise the different issues at play, I believe that no more public money should go in that direction.

If people want to launch more and more objects into orbit let them do it with private money.

Andrew McMillan, posted online