MEP Caroline Lucas' view that the recent collapse of world trade talks in Mexico was a triumph (The Argus, September 16) is misguided.

This outcome simply allows existing EU, Japanese and US agricultural subsidies to continue unchanged at the expense of their consumers and taxpayers.

Farmers, investors and workers in developing countries will go on being undermined by our surplus being dumped in their markets and we will still be unable to buy the many products they could supply.

Oxfam, her former employer, said before the meeting that failure would threaten the world's poorest countries.

The sooner all those bureaucrats get together again and strike a deal on trade reform the better.

-Peter Freeman, Brighton