Football gridlock

I THINK that it’s about time that the city councillors did something about the totally unacceptable football traffic in Glasgow.

On a Saturday, people like myself get caught up in this gridlock for hours because of the supporters cars and buses.

We are trapped in cars miles from home extremely frustrated because the car we are in can’t move forward or back due to cars being driven by football supporters.

In my opinion the only way to remedy the situation is to ban football supporters from travelling to matches in their cars and to actively encourage them to use public transport.

The city councillors have to be forced to accept that not everyone has the time or the patience to suffer the serious inconvenience that football traffic causes.

If my suggestion is adopted then not only will it make the roads clearer for people to travel to our retail parks and shopping centres - and therefore show a huge increase in profits at these shopping venues - but the pollution would also be significantly reduced resulting in cleaner air for both citizens and visitors.

Caroline McCord, Culloden Street, Glasgow

End EU freebie

JOHN Swinney, the Scottish Education Secretary, has announced that European students beginning their studies at Scottish Universities next year will receive free tuition and other financial support for the duration of their courses. (Evening Times October 15).

More than 13,312 EU nationals enrolled in 2014/2015 up from 6,738 in 2006/2007 and the taxpayer funded bill just keeps rising.

Scottish taxpayers already pay more than £27 million a year to fund the free university education of EU nationals coming to study in Scotland and this will increase.

Giving “free EU education” just to curry favour in Europe will only add to Scotland’s £15 billion fiscal black hole.

As Eben Wilson, director of Taxpayer Scotland succinctly said, “Scotland simply cannot go on making promises to spend money that does not exist”.

Meanwhile Scottish police officers are using duct tape and cable ties to keep their vehicles on the road.

Clark Cross, by email

Charity fatigue

I AM exhausted with charities and beggars I don’t know if anyone feels the same? Why do all these beggars and charities think that Scotland is such a wealthy country that the population can scatter cash in all directions.

Today I passed a man in a wheelchair with his leg stump exposed.

He will be getting higher rate mobility component of Disability Living Allowance as a major part the criteria is you must show you have trouble walking. So why is he begging ?

John McLean, by email