IN just a few weeks, residents in the Partick East/Kelvindale and Baillieston wards will go to the polls to elect councillors in what will be crucial by-elections for Glasgow City Council. After three and a half years of the SNP running Glasgow into the ground, voters will get a chance to deliver their verdict on how local services are being run. Our first nationalist administration doesn’t have much to be proud of – bin collection cuts, bulk uplift charges, potholes, ungritted streets, rats roaming freely and accusations of bullying still hanging over the leadership of the SNP. With that kind of local record, it’s no surprise one of the SNP candidates said last week, “an independent Scotland is number one priority”. Something which I’m sure most readers would agree with me should be our last priority – the last thing Glasgow needs is another grandstanding councillor who’ll be dedicated to the constitution, not his constituents.