Time to sort out our city before paying for Indyref2

ICOULDN’T quite believe it when I read recently that Kate Forbes the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy has set aside £20 million for a second independence reference next year despite warnings of major cuts to public spending in Scotland.

How about us locking Kate Forbes, Nicola Sturgeon and Patrick Harvey in a room and asking them to explain the diabolical situation they have let Scotland get into.

Our NHS is still grossly understaffed in all aspects of medical staff.

Our hospitals still don’t have enough beds for patients therefore they can’t cope with the long ambulance queues for patients needing urgent attention, and as far as A&E is concerned, the waiting times are unbelievable.

The crime rate in Scotland, according to the media, has vastly increased because there is a shortage of police, this situation has still not been addressed, the situation with teachers we are told is the same in all education departments, teachers are stressed out and exasperated no one seems to be listening to them.

The majority of our roads have horrendous potholes which are dangerous to motorists, lanes markings, especially at Hillington roundabout, are now non-existent and it is just waiting for a serious accident to happen. Again, nothing has been done to rectify this ongoing situation, the road tax motorists are paying is certainly not going on our roads.

Bin collections in most areas have been greatly reduced now, causing rat infestation in certain areas.

Senior citizens, who at one time had their gardens and hedges attended to, are now totally unruly, like the grass verges and central reservations you see all over Glasgow – our city has become a total pigsty.

I would ask the SNP and the Green Party for once to get their act together and start concentrating on all of the above, maybe when they have addressed the current situation sorting out all of these problems they can then start thinking about a second independence referendum, in the meantime put the £20m towards sorting out our city.

E K

Crookston

WITH regards to turning the toilets at St Vincent Street into a museum for aids and HIV (Glasgow Times, Friday), here is a better idea, open them up and use them as toilets.

Not rocket science, is it?

Jim Tees

Via email

THE rail dispute has been derailed and hit the buffers due to greedy train drivers asking for more than a four percent wage rise.

Why doesn’t ScotRail just make them driverless?

It can then use the money to make passenger journeys more enjoyable and also affordable with the savings from driverless. It would restore our public railways back on time and track.

Stephen Johnstone Glasgow