CAROL RUNCIMAN (Letters, March 18) suggests a Lib Dem council would be “the greenest in the north”, with £1 million returned to the waste collection budget to avoid any new charges for green bin collections (which result from Lib-Dem Coalition funding cuts).

What she doesn’t say is how this would be paid for. Would it be from the money set aside as contingency to deal with floods, severe weather or delays in making savings? Would it come from scrapping transport initiatives such as the trial city-centre free bus proposed by the Greens or from the new homes bonus earmarked for reduced bus fares for young people and establishing a environment improvement fund?

Or would it be funded by their proposal to scrap the council investment in a road bridge into York Central which will unlock the building of 1,100 homes on a brownfield central site, rather than further expansion into the green belt?

Given the massive government funding cuts, we need a vision of a way forward for York, not just line-by-line short-term defence of current services.

Our local manifesto launched tries to give that vision – to get green you have to vote Green.

Cllr Andy D’Agorne, Green group leader, Broadway West, York.