THE number of potholes on Glasgow’s roads is not only a public health hazard, as cars veer to avoid them, but also a failing of local government.

If Glasgow City Council cannot manage its resources effectively in order to fix our roads with a long term solution (a task that is achieved by cities with far harsher climates than our own) then they cannot be considered competent to deal with other issues facing our city.

Fixing the roads would not solve all problems, but it would indicate that our leaders are up to the challenge.

Brian Atkinson, Glasgow, by email

I wonder how much Dave Cameron paid in inheritance tax on the money left by his father and if HMRC will be brave enough to investigate him.

I won’t hold my breath.

Also, why not investigate other politicians?

Alex Lindsay, Baldwin Avenue, by email

In relation to ‘Is this Glasgow’s most offensive doll?’ story (Evening Times, April 2), if you always attach the swastika to the Nazis then you do are not accepting the fact that it is a ancient eastern symbol.

If you go into Glasgow city chambers the tiled floor is enclosed with a design comprising of the swastika.

Unfortunately, the fact that this doll is seen as a evil symbol and is very ugly and not suitable for most folk and shows just how far reaching the Nazi ideology was acceptable.

Surely it would be better to highlight and discuss the great evil of the Nazi party to prevent it reoccurring.

John McLean, posted online

READING the ‘Nicola Sturgeon for First Minister’ message to appear on Holyrood vote papers (Monday’s Evening Times), isn’t there a constitutional issue here?

Is the Holyrood Government different from the Westminster Government? I thought that in neither case do we vote for the First or Prime Minister.

We vote for our local MP or MSP and it is in the Houses that the First /Prime Minister is selected AFTER the election.

If we are being asked to vote for our First Minister then that makes us governed by a president in the same way that the Americans are this year. Dictators are also selected this way.

That explains why we hear less and less from other cabinet ministers and she now speaks for ALL ministries.

Thomas Wilson, posted online