Dear Editor,

Audley Shaw and Andrew Holness seem prepared to bring their party into disrepute and take away any credibility it had.

Both men appear to have no principles, except to slavishly follow the dictate of the International Monetary Fund/rapacious creditors.

They are prepared to completely disregard the promises they made during their election campaign regarding taxes, and are now again using the National Housing Trust (NHT) funds, which they described as a raid four years ago.

Shaw is also cowardly, not prepared to comment. It may be legal, according to the court decision last year, but that doesn’t make it morally right, taking money that could, if the will was there, fund homes for those currently under-qualified even though they contribute.

Combined with more indirect taxes (GCT etc) the poor are now being squeezed ever more to help those in the middle and the top.

Prosperity for whom? As I’ve been saying for some years now, the $45 billion already stolen from the NHT could have been used to provide a grant of $500,000 to 90,000 families with which to build a starter home on government land, creating pride (and less crime), improved families and lots of construction jobs.

Paul Ward