But perhaps, Khandro, when visitors come to our town, they should respect our ways. Even if there are a lot of them.
Why do we get so many visitors? It's not for the beach. As tony points out, our beach is not very nice to sit on.
People come to Brighton to get a bit of the Brighton way of life. That's why I moved here. They like the fact that the town is full of weird people. That when you come out of a coffee shop, you will walk past a gay massage parlour with pictures of muscley, oiled men on the front, and a gay sex shop with a window full of butt toys, a shop selling voodoo charms, a mod revival shop, a Tarot card reader called Madam Something-or-other, a CD shop, a book shop, a sheesha pipe shop, a steam punk and Victoriana fetish shop, and three pubs, which all have a live band playing.
They like the fact that if you smoke weed in the town, you get arrested. But if you keep it down on the beach, out of everyone's faces, nobody will bother you.
They like the fact that you can do anything you want (up to a point) and nobody will judge you, or moan, or ask you to stop.
You can't sterilise Brighton. This is the place where you can do anything. If it becomes the place where you can't even have a cigarette in the open air, we are no longer Brighton.
I don't smoke. I don't sleep with other women (okay, just a few times). I don't dress like a character from a pantomime. But I love the fact that people who do, can do so freely.
People like the twits on the council should take their sterile ideas of what a sterile town should be like, and impose them somewhere else. Like Hove, or Worthing, or Eastbourne, or Bournemouth, or ... frankly every other town on the south coast.
And leave Brighton alone.