You would think that if there is one thing a Green Party-run council would get right, it would be recycling.

But, as the latest figures show (The Argus, March 14), not only is Brighton and Hove’s recycling rate around half that of some similar size authorities, it is actually lower now than it was in 2007.

Then, 29% of household waste was recycled. Now the Green Party can manage only 25.4%. And this is despite the Green-led council extending the opening hours of the Hollingdean materials recycling facility last year, which it claimed would improve rates and stop collection backlogs.

Last week, I attended a meeting where a resident spoke of his frustration at getting no response from the council when he asked for a recycling bin – and he asked more than once.

He is not the first person I have heard complaining of difficulties in getting basic services in Brighton and I doubt he will be the last.

The Green Party’s failure to manage what should be a Green flagship policy is just one example of the many ways in which they have dashed the hopes of so many people who voted for them in the past and who are now telling me on doorsteps throughout the city, “Never again.”

Purna Sen, Labour Parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion