The conveyor belt of SNP cuts to services in Clydebank shows no sign of slowing down. We are seeing their full effects this summer, for the second year in a row, here in Clydebank.

It’s been a second summer of discontent with countless residents complaining to me about the state of our public parks and open spaces. Not cutting the grass in our parks and residential areas is not biodiversity, it’s just half a million pounds of cuts to the Greenspace budget. Goldenhill Park is a disgrace, the state of Duntocher Village Green is nothing short of civic vandalism, and the state of the Garden of Remembrance at the Duntocher and Hardgate War Memorial shames the memory of our fallen.

Read more: Residents slam state of Goldenhill Park leading to 'rats in gardens'

The SNP councillors and SNP MP and MSP don’t seem to care – they are not listening to us but they are to blame, no one else, not Westminster.

Instead of using Scottish powers to stand up to the Tories, the SNP are turbocharging Tory austerity on councils across Scotland.

Scottish Government figures, published last month, revealed that Scottish councils have had their budgets cut by 7.5 per cent over the last six years, even though the cash from Westminster was cut by only 2.8 per cent over the same period.

The SNP are choosing to cut council budgets. I understand Nicola Sturgeon will cut West Dunbartonshire’s money next year by a further staggering £10 million and our local SNP politicians just roll over and accept this.

Instead, this month, they targeted our local running club, the Clydesdale Harriers, by increasing charges to use the facilities at St Peter the Apostle High School and, at the same time, closing the running track over the summer – turning it into a great white elephant.

Read more: Clydesdale Harriers facing council price hikes and limited use of facilities

Also on the list of SNP targets in our town are the elderly, who are being priced out of life-saving community alarms, local groups that are being priced out of the town hall, female council workers denied equal pay claims, and golfers who are being priced out of Dalmuir Golf Course.

Who will be the next victims of the SNP’s turbocharged austerity agenda?

If the SNP councillors are confident their biodiversity plan of not cutting the grass is so popular, resign and fight by-elections on the policy and let voters decide.