Your report on the news that half the Green Party councillors standing down at the election (August 21) including their leader and several committee chairs reveals that they know they can’t win next May, and that they know the great Green Party experiment in Brighton and Hove is over.
Of the few that remain, some are scurrying for safer seats, with Alex Phillips abandoning Goldsmid for Regency, ironically the one being vacated by the person she tried to depose, Jason Kitcat.
In contrast Labour councillors are not quitting. Bob Carden, Jean Lepper and current Mayor Brian Fitch are retiring after more than 80 years of public service between them, and I thank them.
Labour are assembling a strong team of new candidates with real world experience, notably former Albion chief executive Martin Perry, to work alongside experienced councillors in tackling the huge challenges the Greens have avoided or failed to face up to.
These include refuse and recycling, increasing poverty, and the crisis in secondary schools places meaning by 2018 hundreds of pupils will be without a place.
Councillor Warren Morgan
Labour and Co-operative
East Brighton
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