I am surprised Warren Morgan, a supporter of the Labour Party, should attack the Tories (Letters, April 23), for it has become widely apparent in Brighton and Hove the two parties are in cahoots.

Both fear a dwindling of support at the local elections in a year's time, which is in the blinking of an eye, and have connived in creating a system by which full council meetings will be held at far wider intervals, with the result that there will be less opportunity for Green, Lib-Dem and Independent parties to make their points, not to mention members of the public, who just happen to fund all this.

Time and again I am asked: "Where is the opposition to all these things that are going on?" We have a situation now in which the city's various pressure groups are obliged to make the running, to get comment in the Press, on television and radio and, on the streets, to successfully stimulate that debate which is - as I am sure, in his heart of hearts, Mr Morgan would agree - vital to preserve those vestiges of democracy that prevent us from sliding the way of so much of the world.

-Christopher Hawtree, Westbourne Gardens, Hove