Toilets very inconvenient

We had a walk from Seafield to Ayr on a beautiful New Year’s Day.

It was ruined by no public toilets available near to the Ayr India Restaurant.

Notices were up to advise that there was no service.

I have never seen so many people on the promenade and I bet a good number of them were inconvenienced!

Normal entry to the toilets is 30 pence with no change given if you don’t have the correct amount.

The toilets would have collected a fair sum I’m sure!

My husband and I are elderly and have medical problems and require conveniences if we go walking. Guess we will just have to give it up! Thanks, South Ayrshire Council. Women against State Pension Inequality.

However I was dismayed to read recently that a similar motion in South Ayrshire Council had been defeated.

The motion put forward was requesting the chief executive to write on behalf of the council, to the Secretary of State for Works and Pensions at Westminster to call upon the United Kingdom government to reconsider transitional arrangements forwomen born on or after April 6 1951, so that women do not live in hardship due to pension changes they were not told about until it was too late to make alternative arrangements.

Unfortunately the present Conservative/ Labour group leading South Ayrshire Council voted against the motion and suggested the Scottish Government should help to pay the WASPI women in Scotland.

Pensions are a reserved issue under the control of Westminster.

The South Ayrshire Council know this and so their leadership has let the WASPI women and their families down.

My wife has paid over 40 years of National Insurance contributions, she has never received an official letter from Works and Pensions about the change in arrangements of her State Pension and now she has to wait until she is 66 rather than the original agreement which was 60 – six years of a difference. She had a contract with the UK Government which has not been honoured.

It seems the politicians from the Conservative and Labour parties are more interested in party politics than the wellbeing and welfare of hundreds of thousands of women in Scotland and over two million women in the United Kingdom.

Most families in Scotland will have a WASPI woman in their midst – a mum, an aunt or a granny – give them your support for a fair transitional arrangement when you consider your vote in the forthcoming local elections.