As we don’t wish to disappoint Mr Taylor (Letters, April 11), we can assure him that we will continue to write to The Argus both individually and together, as we have done throughout most of the 46 years we’ve lived in Brighton, whether or not there’s an election pending. If those letters are “tedious” or interesting enough to be published is a decision for the Editor.

Neither of us is a candidate in this year’s Euro elections nor in 2015’s council or general elections. But we do care about the place where we live and share the despair of so many residents at the mess the Greens are making – particularly their failure to get to grips with refuse collection and declining recycling rates.

Like the Greens themselves, Mr Taylor blames others for their dismal failure when it was Green councillors who last year washed their hands of any involvement in negotiations with the Council’s own refuse service workers.

As their recent leadership election shows, they are a bitterly divided group and party, more concerned with their own internal disputes than with running the Council.

Unfortunately this May’s European elections will not change who runs Brighton and Hove, but it will give local people the chance to show just what they think of the Greens.

Councillor Jeane Lepper, Labour and Co-operative, Hollingdean and Stanmer ward, Brighton and Hove City Council; David Lepper, former Labour MP for Brighton Pavilion