I'm curious to know why it is all those who have written in about the Allies For Democracy's newsletter come up with the standard line of saying that it is negative and that "those involved should all be ashamed of themselves".

The Yes campaign has had much unchallenged access to sympathetic local media and has many other outlets to promote its cause.

Virtually all the Nos have is their newsletter.

In his time as council leader, Lord Bassam used many dirty tricks, including threatening to take a Green councillor to the Home Secretary over that party's drug policy(which the Government later adopted in Brixton).

It seems the faintest whiff of opposition and radicalism sends the local Labour establishment into paranoid fear.

-Nigel Baker, Vale Road, Portslade