The first article quoted a councillor as saying the cards would make it easier for the public to pay.

The introduction of this new method is not going to make it any easier at all.

The only way to make the scandalously-high rates easier to pay for us ordinary mortals, struggling with mortgages, sudden hikes in utility prices and the like, is to stop thinking the majority of residents within the Dundee boundary are either on benefits (so able to claim rebates) or are high earners, like many of the councillors.

I am far from the only one with a full-time job, and no eligibility to benefits, and am getting poorer by the year.

My employer (one of the utility providers) has given me a 1.25% pay rise for the past two years and, within five years, I can see my Council Tax being equal to my mortgage.

Every year I find myself in arrears with the tax because I have to choose between keeping up-to-date with it, or having a steady supply of gas and electricity.

Does the council not realise they’re making their citizens suffer with stress over making ends meet every year?

I don’t want to move out of Dundee as I like it here having come as a student, plus my job is in the city.

But when is the council going to realise it is going to turn Dundee into a city of benefit claimants, because working people will no longer be able to afford to live within the city boundary? — In Despair.

No government should be judged on one policy alone.

I am not a member of any political party but think it is a bit unfair to castigate the local Labour Party as being “more focused on retaining the red flag than the red hackle”.

Mr Duncan asks which party I will support in the General Election. My answer at this stage is that I don’t know, as there is nothing to choose between any of them.

Mr Duncan asks what I have done to save The Black Watch.

Some of us hide out lights under a bushel, but along with other interested parties I attended a meeting of Dundee City Council when Colonel Murdoch made a statement to that body which was well received.

That body in its entirety supported the plans to make representations to oppose the moves to change the present regimental system and the Lord Provost, along with other civic dignitaries, went to London.

I also stood in Montrose collecting signatures to bolster the protest, marched through Dundee with associations representing various regiments, demonstrated in Edinburgh and walked with men with whom I had served in protest as to what was proposed.

I thank Mr Duncan for enlightening me as to how he became “campaign organiser” and how funds are raised for this cause.

However, no one has answered my questions as to why the SNP is so interested in keeping part of the union army when opposed to the union.

Nobody from the Tory party has explained why they are so keen to save the regiments when they had cut-backs during their term in government.

Could it be these parties are using this campaign as political opportunists?

I served with letter writer Jake Reid in Z Company of the “Dad’s Army” and hold him in high esteem.

However, I point out to him that I do not need a “pat on the back from the Labour craws”, to write for answers to questions which I feel are legitimate. — David Taylor, (ex-Black Watch).

I ECHO David Taylor’s concern regarding the political allegiances of those behind the Save the Scottish Regiments campaign.

I recall that on the Saturday before last November’s rally at Camperdown Park, Dundee, a deputation of local councillors sought signatures in the city centre. All appeared to be representatives of the SNP.

Those behind the campaign have repeatedly said they will field candidates against Labour at the General Election.

They should come forward and state their political allegiances. — Tam McArthur, Hilltown, Dundee.

Now our pastime has been curtailed due to bollards restricting access.

As we can’t walk very far, I ask the powers-that-be to remove them so we can start fishing again. — Ron Tragham, Shanwell Road South, Tayport.

I also wish it was the only drug that some of the Dundee addicts, who are prescribed this medication, are taking.

Perhaps if a small test of some kind was given to prove their need for methadone, then they could be given their prescription.

However, if I was one of those NHS patients and had to hang around from about 9 am till 2 or 3 in the afternoon with my children, and I had to pass the time chatting, arguing, sharing cigarettes and blocking the pavement because I was barred from going into the Highgate Centre, I would be contacting my councillor about this poor service.

I would be demanding a change of outlet, to one where I would get my medication a lot quicker and allow me to go home a lot sooner.

Maybe I am wrong, and things have improved in the Lochee area, but I have yet to see this. — Eyes Wide Shut.