The letter printed urging opposition parties in our city to unite and defeat the ruling party’s proposal for raising council tax may just be falling on deaf ears (The Argus, February 14).

My reasoning for this being that (I’m sorry to say) the Greens will not be re-elected.

If opposition parties fail to unite against this proposal, the rise in tax will go through, the Greens will become more unpopular and will not get re-elected.

Then, one or other of the two rival parties will step in and, hey ho, they will have the bonus of extra revenue waiting for them – and it will not be their fault. Cynical politics or democracy...

John Walsh, Whippingham Road, Brighton