Brighton and Hove City Council is being run not by politicians but by officials.

Politicians have lost control to the bureaucrats and the council is not representative of the people and their views.

This has caused major problems and a failure to invest in schemes which would have brought jobs and prosperity to the area, letting the infrastructure decay so much Brighton is falling behind as a tourist destination, and the time involved in planning developments is crippling the city.

Brighton needs to join the 21st century but is being stifled by bureaucrats and red tape. External influences are also part of the bureaucracy, where officials take the advice of consultants rather than make decisions which should be down to councillors.

The council is there to serve the people, not the other way around, and it is time councillors retook the political agenda, putting it where it should be - with the people.

The council is not politically run.

It is bureaucratically run and that is not democracy at work. The council needs to be open, transparent and fair, so from the local elections in May we need to see a new dawn in Brighton, where the people have their say, not the bureaucrats.

  • Jim Evans, Montague Place, Brighton