First of all I hope all the Post’s readers are safe and well – and hopefully when the vaccine is fully rolled out, we can get back to some form of normality.

I also want to take this opportunity to mention the state of the city with regards to cleansing. It is quite clear there is a major problem with the rubbish and threat to public health in Glasgow at the moment.

The city’s SNP administration has further compounded problems by announcing that green bin ‘general waste’ collections are to change from every two weeks to every three weeks.

They will claim that every council has signed up to the recycling charter. They will claim that by doing so, we all agreed to Glasgow’s green bin collections going to three weekly. But this is most certainly not the case.

Nowhere in that document is there any reference to the specific cycle of collection in any local authority in Scotland – and the SNP administration knows it. By peddling this line, all they are doing is trying to cover up the real reason. And the truth is this: changing the city’s bin collections is nothing but a savings exercise.

And the issues do not stop with Glasgow’s cleansing services, either. The roads in the city are full of potholes and, quite frankly, their condition is a disgrace. I’ve had no shortage of constituents who have been in touch over recent weeks to say they’ve already had their cars badly damaged.

But let me make this clear: Glasgow City Council’s roads budget is underspent by millions of pounds. Other councillors in the ruling administration are claiming that the roads are not being fixed because of staff sickness levels; in my opinion this is not true.

We have private contractors out digging up roads and pavements, and we have council staff out temporarily filling these holes. So my question is this: why are they not doing permanent resurfacing? By filling potholes temporarily, all this council is doing is throwing good money after bad.

My constituents and the people of Glasgow are fed up with the the rubbish and roads in this city. We went from having one of the cleanest cities in the UK to one of the dirtiest. It is time for this administration to step up to the mark, to clean up this city, and to properly fix our roads.