Members of the Oxford Green Party should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for turning Monday's degree ceremony at Oxford Brookes University into a political advert for their wild and crazy ideas.

If there was any chance that their presence could have changed something, their protest would have been justified. Brookes had already made its position clear. Therefore, the Green protest was nothing more than a cheap and nasty attempt at gaining a little publicity.

This situation was, for a number of reasons, extremely distasteful and highly insensitive, and the Green Party members ought to hang their heads in shame.

Mick McAndrews, Burchester Avenue, Barton, Oxford