Letters..

MSP’s cheek

IT IS shocking that the voters in Aberdeen Donside who elected Mark McDonald as their SNP MSP have no say in his announcement that he is going to become an independent MSP.

He resigned from the SNP after admitting his behaviour towards women fell below profession standards.

McDonald was voted in as an SNP MSP, not an independent, and as the voters put him in office, they should now have the right to get him out of it.

He seems to care less about his constituents’ rights than his £62,000 MSP’s salary.

It is high time that the law was changed so that if an MSP, or MP for that matter, falls below professional standards, voters can vote for them to be removed. Tom Baxter Denny, Stirlingshire ★★★★ MARK McDonald MSP only confirms the belief that the main qualification to be a politician should be a bullet-proof neck.

He resigned from the SNP but has the audacity to continue as an independent MSP, where he is obviously only representing himself, not his constituents.

B Park, Bathgate, West Lothian

Snow joke

WHEN I saw the picture in yesterday’s Record of a council worker cutting snow-covered grass in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, it made my blood boil. Lots of people are having trouble getting about on snowy pavements and roads. Let’s have a bit of common sense and sort out that problem instead. Anon