Refusing a coronavirus jab will come at a price

HOW naive and selfish were Barry Tighe’s comments regarding vaccination passports? By all means refuse to have the treatments but this must come at a price.

Personally I do not want to be sitting beside anyone in a restaurant, plane, crowded cinema etc who has refused the vaccine.

I do not wish to risk spreading this among my family and friends who for medical reasons are unable to have the vaccination and should be in a relatively small excluded group.

When quoting Big Brother, we must all remember that this was a work of fantasy.

GMT

Giffnock

I WAS puzzled by Graham Keddie’s e-mail (Glasgow Times, Thursday) in response to a recent article by Susan Aitken. He questions the mandate for a second independence referendum on the basis of the last General Election result.

It’s easy to pick holes in the inherently undemocratic first-pastthe-post Westminster system - the Tories have an 80 seat majority and can do pretty much what they want on the basis of support from less than 30% of the electorate.

I get really frustrated by the number of people who can’t seem to be bothered voting, but their apathy means their opinions simply can’t be taken into account.

What is surely more important is the potential mandate secured from the forthcoming Scottish Parliamentary elections.

The system in Scotland isn’t perfect but it’s more representative than Westminster. So a resounding win for the SNP would justify the case for a second referendum. Even if the SNP gets over 50% of the vote, would Graham accept that as a mandate? Probably not.

The case for a second referendum is that there has been a massive material change in circumstances.

In 2014, a powerful argument for Better Together was that voting ‘Yes’ would see Scotland leave the EU. Despite 62% of Scots voting ‘Remain’ in 2016, that’s precisely what has happened. Many unionists seem to think there should never be another referendum, regardless of how much public opinion moves – that is simply untenable.

P Hynes

Via email

THE state of the roads are a disgrace I work night shift and when I was on my break on Sunday morning at 2.30am I hit a pothole and burst two tyres.

I’m saying pothole but it’s more of a trench. The guys at National tyres on Paisley Road West said a lot of cars have had their tyres damaged by this hole.

What has the roads department done since Sunday? It has put two traffic cones in it!

The roads in Glasgow are starting to resemble the surface of the moon.

CAN anyone please tell me why pound opticians and pawn shops are all open?

Surely they are not classed as essential shops. You can get what you need out of the supermarkets that you shop in.

The pound shops and as for the pawn shop’s to be open, that is a joke. Does the government know that it is now safer to go for a