Number of protesters allowed in city is crazy

THE number of people allowed to march through the streets of Glasgow on Friday was a disgrace. I live next to the Mitchell Library and was unable to leave my street in my car due to these pathetic protesters.

Do they not realise that their action will do nothing?

All it does is cause disruption to commuters and residents.

It’s time for them to go back to school or go and get a job and stop wasting everyone’s time with their pointless protests.

Jason Robertson Glasgow

SHOULD anyone be considering a COP26 documentary that would include footage of the hypocrites’ idling limousines and Glasgow’s private jet-choked airport, an appropriate title would be “Scum From Away”.

Louis Desjardins

Canada

INEVITABLE that this would happen (Over 100 police officers on COP26 duty ‘isolating or waiting on PCR tests’ amid outbreak fear, Glasgow Times online).

Just wait for the numbers of folk with Covid after the march through the city.

Jill Ferguson

Via Facebook

AS someone whose route home on Wednesday was diverted because of the protests on Renfield Street etc, I would like to ask Extinction Rebellion etc this, you said before this all started that “we wouldn’t try to disrupt the lives of ordinary Glaswegians during this”, so please explain what that was on Wednesday then?

Basically stopping ordinary Glaswegians from getting from A to B.

Stephen Lauder

Nitshill

WITH the dark nights drawing in and concerns about safety and security I decided to report a street light that had been out for 10 months.

The pleasant call centre lady told me it would take between 60 to 80 days. I said this was ‘nuts’.

On further discussion, she told me that is the target and that she was part of a call centre team of over 100 who are now working from home because of Covid.

I wonder whether it would be better to retrain staff to change streetlights rather than sit in the house taking and passing on messages that are not acted upon within a reasonable timescale.

Roads and lighting management team needs to get its act together or leave the stage in disgrace.

Bill Love

Mosspark

I FIND it laughable to see children joining the climate change march when it is their parents who are adding to the problem when they drop them off in their 4X4s at the school gates.

Maybe parents should encourage their ‘bundles of joy’ to walk to school and home to help the environment.

The sight of parents abandoning their cars in front of residents’ driveways to get close to the gates is simply infuriating.

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