Farage’s War on Net Zero. Will he force charges on Council, Housing, Housing Associations and Aged Miners Cottages across Durham and Northumberland.

 It's been out on closely linked social media sites to the Tories for a number of months that Northumberland Conservatives had to cajole its elderly members to ensure they could form a slate for the local government elections.

Many of those Conservatives elected on May 1st  have had very poor attendance records over the last four years,  with the Conservative council having to reduce the number of full meetings by 50% and hold very few Committee meetings during harvest and lambing time due to the Council having a number of farmers within their ranks. That was to ensure any attendance from the majority of their members at all with age and occupation driving their local agenda’s. 

Any slip up over the next four years may allow REFORM UK, who are breathing down their necks, to force one of their parties' prime local government policies out onto both Counties unsuspecting public, that of taxing solar power on people's homes.

Northumberland’s residents may have to watch what happens in County Durham as an indicator as Mr Farage wants his new local government power to be used to show the public what he can do to wreck Labour’s Great British Energy policy and its support for modern car manufacture and large data centre’s right in the teeth. Local Solar Power Tax will prove his point.

Over many years the Labour Party across both Council areas aided residents of their Council housing stock to be able to cheapen their living costs through the installation of solar banks on their house roofs. Both council’s also helped their Aged Miners Homes Associations access funding to be able to deliver similar improvements for their tenants, with Housing Associations benefitting from the Council’s draw down of Government grants for social housing to follow suit.

His disparate mix of members in Northumberland and the personal agendas of some may not be able to deliver his wishes but by forcing in a REFORM UK manifesto policy in Durham through their new hold on the Council which affects ordinary people will certainly run out the fear element enough to show the public nationally that they can be expected to deliver on their manifesto promises, which in the main, help city investors more than ordinary folk.

Town being ‘reborn’ as the Capital of NET ZERO votes against its future?

Blyth in Northumberland has voted against Conservatives and Labour who were steering it towards an industrial rebirth, business confidence sagging immediately.

Reform UK has gelled with the population of Blyth, Northumberland’s largest and poorest Town which has experienced a long slog to find its feet over the last three decades.

The rebirth began under the Labour led County and District Council with the announcement of the Caterpillar project which eventually opened the then largest wind power blade testing centre in 2012.

Under the 14 years of Conservative Government the wind testing facility was joined by a fleet of companies waiting to start, all steering the Town and its surrounds centred along the River Blyth towards the massive growth in NET ZERO, including the import of surplus hydro power from Norway to boost the local grid and propel the whole surrounding area towards a future away from ‘Old King Coal’ and into a well paid manufacturing culture based on clean and green.

Driving towards the town from any direction the latest giant development from JDR cables to produce subsea cables is nearing completion, creating 170 well paid long term jobs producing the material required to bring offshore power into the Blyth estuary and onto the national grid. This is growth and jobs the Town and surrounding areas  badly needs to balance the new economy drive and kickstart the NET ZERO market place the current Labour Government has been hoping for when promising an £86m investment in a larger wind blade testing facility being developed a stone's throw from Blyth’s Town Centre.

The Town and surrounding area welding their future to a party, Reform UK, that is determined to hammer back all net zero expenditure including an in development NET ZERO Learning Centre in the Town then close down all of the infrastructure and new industry driven by the Labour Government's achievable aspiration.

Why you may ask?

It's down to their Leader Nigel Farage who is a city investor and has chosen to sacrifice Towns like Blyth and drive its population’s needs back 30 years to Mr Farage's beloved Thatcher era if not further back to the 1930’s in order that investors like him can benefit from the profits easily gained from the continued used of Oil and Fossil Fuels. Which in the short term thinking of his wallet is far easier to get returns from than the long term investments in wind, tidal and solar power both onshore and offshore that NET ZERO requires.

Its a pity that his new voters didn’t look into his box never mind outside it before putting the cross in the square to strangle the life out of their Town allowing them to watch tumbleweed blow through their streets for possibly another three decades as business confidence wanes that not only Blyth but the nation is being stripped from the UK via the Reform UK Local Government’s agenda.