The committee system proposed by Councillor Keith Taylor and his colleagues would be costly and complicated.

The Nos have consistently failed to demonstrate how their proposals would improve public services or streamline decision-making.

Labryinthine arrangements with every decision-making committee mirrored by another to check the decisions would keep councillors tied up talking to each other instead of to residents and key agencies who help to deliver services.

An elected mayor would be a strong voice for our city, winning resources through essential dialogue with regional and national government.

He or she would be elected by voters across Brighton and Hove and be accountable to them and could be voted out of office next time if not up to scratch.

Ballot papers for the postal vote on this issue go out later this week. This is too important a decision to be left to a navel-gazing minority who want to drag us back to the 19th Century.

-Coun Sue John, Portland Avenue, Hove