Your correspondent Neil Kelly seems to have got himself into an awful muddle over pensions (Letters, October 28).

He manages to ruin some very good points about the unfairness of council tax and how pensioners' incomes have been eroded by blaming "the unions". Quite why he should seek to scapegoat public sector workers is beyond me.

It will also come as a surprise to the public sector workers I represent that they are "feathering their own nests" when the average pension in local government is just £3,800pa.

All Mr Kelly can offer is equality of misery - better that pension provision be reduced to the lowest common denominator than that we fight for a decent deal for all.

I wonder why Mr Kelly thinks we have pensions at all, if not because working people were prepared to form unions to fight for them.

Let's fight for decent pensions in unity and reject the divisive approach of Mr Kelly.

-Andy Richards, chair, Brighton and Hove Unison