Bedded-in votes?

There are now well over 10,000 asylum seekers and refugees living in Glasgow, most having arrived over the last three years.

As we know, the lucky ones are accommodated in Glasgow’s hotels and others are abandoned on the streets, but they have one thing in common, apparently, and that is that they all love Nicola Sturgeon and are grateful to her as she has welcomed them into the city and is seen as their benefactress!

We must also rem embert hat, conveniently, the Scottish administration passed a bill extending the right to vote to those granted refugee status.

In the lead-up to Indy ref 2014 it was noted that people of non-s cottish origin could prove decisive for the outcome even then. Glasgow is now brimming with migrants, many with a vote ready to use when needed.

Perhaps we should also remember that in 2015 Sturgeon boasted that she would be absolutely happy to house migrants in her home – well, that never happened, of course, but she was laying the path for thousands of extra SNP votes coming to her.

It seems unbelievable that such a simple plan to procure more votes can be played out in broad daylight without any real investigation into what is in fact going on. The cost of housing these migrants is astronomical, and especially debilitating in a city with its own glaringly difficult poverty problems. There is something very callous indeed about this and it certainly feels very wrong, but we know the SNP mantra is independence at any cost, monetary or human.

PAULINE EGGERMONT Drummond Place, Inverness