Your report “No congestion charge say Argus pollsters” (The Argus, December 17) says the idea was proposed by “opposition councillors”.

This may have been encouraged by the false claims of Tory councillor Brian Oxley (Letters, December 15) that the “Left wing parties want a congestion charge”.

The Labour Group did not propose congestion charging and would not have supported it. It was a Green Party proposal, ruled out as being unsound so no vote was taken.

The public will have a say on congestion charging as and when they come to choose whether or not to support Green candidates at the next local elections in 2011 or indeed at the general election.

While Coun Oxley wants to “throw open the doors of the city” to traffic and the Greens want to charge motorists out of the city centre, it is Labour who are promoting alternative forms of transport and giving people sensible and realistic choices about reducing congestion and pollution.

Warren Morgan, Labour and Co-operative councillor for East Brighton