What a great disappointment it was to visit the full Brighton and Hove City Council meeting last Thursday to see history in the making as a new constitution was presented to our councillors.

My friend and I had expected to hear lots of debate and, having been told some councillors would be getting £5,000 allowances to head up new positions at these new committees, we expected to hear lots of questions too.

There is a local election next year for us and we could not see the join where any of the parties at the council sat.

Does this mean we have consensus politics now? Or was Edmund Burke correct to warn us that when good people do nothing, evil triumphs?

-Tansy Baker, Eaton Gardens, Hove