CLLR ANTHONY Hunt’s “grown-up politics”(which is morally bankrupt) amounts to willingly kowtowing to and cheerfully carrying out the dictates of the Con/Dem government’s ideologically based austerity programme! The whole purpose of which is to increase the wealth of the rich at the expense of the poor.

It is surely illogical and dishonest to claim that you are against austerity policies on the one hand and then hit the long-suffering people of Torfaen with a stick labelled “cuts” with the other? The real reason Cllr A Hunt and his fellow “socialist” councillors won’t take a principled stand is perhaps they don’t want to lose their cosy careers in local politics and the financial rewards this brings?

It’s absolute nonsense to claim that if the council were put into administration there would be worse cuts because the Labour-led council is in the process of doing exactly that to the most vulnerable in the borough.

Terry Banfield Cardigan Crescent Cwmbran