Ian Hills' statement "Councillor Pat Murphy (Wish ward, Hove) wants more travellers' sites to be provided" is false (Letters, April 23).

So too is the stream of absurd, yet intentionally inciteful, suppositions that follow from a disturbed and dangerous imagination.

Anyone who lives or works in Wish ward, whether antagonist or protagonist about travellers' issues, will know travellers are simply not an issue.

Readers need to be aware that Ian Hills (Theobald House Residents' Association secretary) has targeted individual councillors in a campaign against Brighton and Hove City Council following the decision to derecognise Theobald House Residents' Association from the council's Tenant Participation Structure, the reason being that a non-resident leaseholder was elected as chair of the association - put simply: A private landlord.

Tenant and resident leaseholder representatives are involved in budgetary decisions concerning the council's 13,000-odd properties. The budget is in excess of £10 million pounds this year.

Increasingly, council properties are being purchased by the private sector under the right-to-buy legislation for reasons of commercial gain.

If the council permitted private-sector landlords to hold positions within its Tenant Participation Structure, it would, in time, transfer budgetary control to the private sector.

The council's tenant and resident leaseholder representatives, housing officers and councillors share that decision-making process.

Mr Hills should exercise caution, in future, as his use of imagery is deliberately designed to provoke fear, tension and anxiety where none should exist.

Wish ward is a well-integrated multicultural community. Anyone seeking to undermine that should know further misrepresentation could result in legal action.

-Pat Murphy, Wish ward councillor, Brighton and Hove City Council