REGARDING your report 'Hold-up in cash for homes blitz' (LET, April 14), after receiving massive publicity about their mammoth proposals for the improvement of housing conditions in East Lancashire, once again, New Labour stuffs the people.

For it now turns out that it will be another two years before the area even starts to benefit.

It was a pathetic attempt by Tony's cronies to grab the headlines and kid people that Labour was about to improve living conditions for many of the people living in unfit houses.

What is wanted is action, not waffle.

WALT MEADOWS, Whalley New Road. Blackburn.