Adam Trimingham was spot on in his piece on the disturbances last Saturday in Brighton (Keep violence out of street protests, The Argus, December 10).

He was also right on target about the company that Green MP Caroline Lucas keeps.

That she was so quick to write to The Argus attempting to distance herself from some of the protesters (Letters, December 9) shows how worried she was that this might affect her election chances.

Her crocodile tears, however, seem pretty hollow when anyone with half a brain would have noticed a well-known anarchist group at the rally before the march.

It was obvious that this protest was going to turn into something more sinister and more should have been done at the rally by Caroline Lucas to make it clear that these idiots were not welcome.

I was in Churchill Square that afternoon buying my wife’s Christmas present and the sight of small children having to scurry out of the way of masked ‘protesters’ playing cat and mouse with the police was sickening.

It was unpleasant, frightening and totally pointless and these people should be totally ashamed.

The final irony, of course, was that the Green MP had an article in last Saturday’s Argus supporting Small Business Saturday.

The events around the march did nothing to support businesses in Brighton, small or large, and also did absolutely nothing for the cause it was meant to be promoting which, like Adam Trimingham, I have sympathy for.

Peter Atkinson
Wolseley Road, Portslade