n I AM 70, born and raised in Glasgow, and served my apprenticeship in John Brown's landboilers.

I experienced the masses leaving work in the evenings from Brown's and Singer's and have seen Labour and the Tories bring Scotland to a pitiful state with food banks and bedroom tax, plus Gordon Brown destroying pensions and selling gold at a massive loss.

We once were a proud and clever nation. YES it's time for change.

J Reid

n I HAVE been a wavering Yes/No voter, but not any more.

I met a young Spanish student who came to this country 10 months ago to study for free.

He leaves Scotland for good to return to his home in Spain on September 19, the day after he will vote Yes in the Scottish Referendum.

This is a farce. This young man has not made Scotland his permanent home and within 18 hours of the vote closing will have left the country for good, yet he and many like him have the right to tell me that the country that I and my family have lived in for many years should be independent of the UK government.

My decision is now made. I support democracy. I cannot support a party that has fudged the eligibility to vote in such this way. I vote No.

Anon

n I CAN'T understand why everyone is getting so excited about the vote next Thursday.

All politicians are only in it for themselves.

Whether a Yes vote or a No vote wins, the Scottish citizens will still face poverty, despair and neglect.

Politicians will still pass laws which benefit the rich and repress the poor, will still vote in huge pay rises for themselves and will still make promises they will never keep.

Their childish, agressive behaviour, especially recently, shows they are all the wrong people to run this country.

Real change is needed.

D. McCormack