What a most churlish and unappreciative letter from Joanne Bush regarding former councillor Mo Marsh (June 2).

While most councillors insure against the future by continuing with their employment, she decided to give all of her time to the work of being a councillor with a consequent greatly reduced standard of living.

They, on the one hand, have to fit in their council work in their limited free time but she decided the work demanded all of her time.

She should therefore be commended for having taken such a self-sacrificing step.

True, her ward colleagues rejected her but she could have sought nomination in another ward with a very good chance of success.

I expect she decided that being a representative for a distant ward was inappropriate. No carpet-bagging for her.

Even Roman emperors, I understand, always had a slave alongside reminding them of their mortality, so politicians should remind themselves of the well established saying: "All political careers end in failure."

Because of this we should be grateful there are still people willing to enter the uncertain world of politics.

-RG Jenkins, Hove