In a brilliant piece of East Glasgow scare mongering John Mason shows that he’s made of sterner moral fibre than the rest saying "I am coming from a faith community background and I am extremely unhappy about any experiments on babies or research, or anything like that."

That’s right John, evil scientists are being given the green light by Labour to experiment on the unborn children of Glasgow East, and only you can stop them. Let's not discuss how propertly regulated research could save the lives of lots of babies in Glasgow East in years to come. Rather than take the harder route of trying to explain how important scientific research is, John Mason chooses the dog whistle politics of religion. Cheap. Really Cheap. And irresponsible.

As an apathetic agnostic, I’m keen on the idea of keeping a big wide separation between the state and religion. After all, one is mumbo jumbo and the other is, er religion.

That’s why I was disappointed with Alex Salmond when he backed the idea of a state funded Muslim state school. A retrograde step, when we should be looking to close down all faith schools and merge them with the rest. They just divide us.

However, it seems there is no end to the populist opportunism of the SNP. Guided as they are by nothing else other than a single minded desire to break up the UK, it would seem that no pressure group can be ignored, even if their demands are based on superstition and hysterical fear mongering. Maybe one day the SNP will succeed in realising an independent Scotland, but if they do I wonder whether it'll be a more divided, backward looking Scotland too.

And as for what Cllr Mason says on sustainable transport....two doctors has got that covered. Whilst I'm not trying to ensure that my byelection prediction comes true by taking shots at the SNP (honest), this guy is not fit for Glasgow City Chambers, nevermind Westminster.