THE letter from the Green Party about trams in Oxford was interesting (Oxford Mail, May 28).

Still, I do not think it was a very good idea to bring the journalist George Monbiot into the debate. I seem to remember that he wrote a full-page article a few years ago calling for the closure of the Cowley car plant on an environmental pretext.

This closure would have resulted in the loss of many desperately-needed jobs.

Not everybody is in the privileged position of being able to earn a living as an environmental journalist.

Susan Thomas, Magdalen Road, Oxford