OF course Rik Child (Opinion, May 10) expresses sympathy with travellers but as a local councillor he has done nothing to help deal with the menace.

They leave rubbish and they are abusive. It is not a minority that misbehaves but, rather, most of them.

Perhaps if Coun Child got out in his ward more and spoke to people he would know why there have been so many irate letters in The Argus lately.

This is not a case of attacking a minority at all, with the connotations such an accusation carries. It is about the majority of well-behaved and law-abiding people being made to suffer by a group of people who think because they are different we should all put up with their ways.

I don't need to remind anyone of this town's uniquely diverse population or the fact most of us get along with each other's ways.

But I do object to being patronised by councillors who are rarely seen and then, suddenly, because there is an election, busy themselves with lots of local issues. And it goes for Labour as well as you Coun Child.

The sooner the travellers are told to clear off and never come back, the better. If not, they should learn to behave themselves.

-Felicity Bowers, Ditchling Road, Brighton