Regarding Keith Jago’s views on the housing crisis, he should look at what has caused the housing crisis in the first place.

It is down to local councils to provide council housing in their area. Many councils across the country sold council houses and were expected to replenish them with new houses with the revenue it received.

The reason for the sale of council houses? Because they were badly built and it was costing councils so much in maintenance costs. The money they would save and what they received from selling these houses, would give them enough to replenish those houses they had sold.

In 1967 there were 3,000 students attending Sussex University, this year it’s 17,000 students. There are more than 17,000 students who attend Brighton University.

The universities by law have to find accommodation for first year students, then they are expected to find accommodation themselves to finish their studies. Now there are more than 30,000 students looking for places to live in this city.

Let us look what that has done to Brighton. Homes of multiple occupancy are licensed properties, usually they have five students per HMO. Divide five into 30,000 means 6,000 houses are required.

That covers three large council estates.

What have Andy Winter and the council done to address this problem? Not a lot.

But allow the universities to build more housing for students and that could mean more students attending these two universities and it puts more pressure on the ordinary residents on this city’s waiting list.

Next point he mentioned was the scandalous reflection of inequality in a 21st century Britain which has never been wealthier than presently.

That is praising this Government on its handling of our country’s finances considering the mess they inherited from Gordon Brown’s bad management, Why did that come about? Gordon Brown wanted the banks to write off Third World debt.

He then allowed the banks more self control, hence the collapse of the banks, and the note Labour left in the empty safe was like rubbing salt into the wound. I am alway bleating on about how authorities do not learn from past mistakes.

You cannot lay that down at David Cameron’s door.

Margaret Thatcher faced the same dilemma in 1979 as Cameron in 2010, allowing inflation to rise and many people lost their home because they could not afford the high cost it placed on their mortgages.

Cameron borrowed large amounts of money so that he could keep inflation down, and offset the cost of Gordon Brown’s mistakes.

But that meant austerity would be with us for some time.

From Spencer Carvil Egginton Road Brighton