It is no wonder Brighton and Hove City Council is millions of pounds over-spent (and our council tax liable to increase by 30 per cent or more) when it spends £40,000 of our money on a survey to which everybody already knows the answer: The council is hopeless.

The idiot who commissioned this should be named and shamed and, in future, this money should go to the many voluntary organisations that have recently had their funding withdrawn.

-Anthony Rogers, by email