In a land where street weeds as tall as children wave in the breeze in a similar fashion to Attenborough's undersea pictures of seagrass and kelp forests, where seagull strewn empty Greggs bags and Mcdonalds waste pitched from dark windowed vehicles blow around forming carpets weeks after being dumped ending in areas where autumn leaves once congregated to die and rot is not the picture Northumberland tourism want to show but unfortunately all too common in ‘forgotten’ South East Northumberland now politically run by Reform UK Ltd.
Reform UK Ltd. who now hold the majority of seats across the South East of the County on Northumberland County Council where the majority of people live. Reform Councillors have failed their supporters by falling at the first hurdle.
Instead of turning out to represent their voters, they have made conscious decisions to sit on their phones and pads in the warmth of their living rooms pumping out anti Labour and Tory nonsense while Northumberland’s shrewd Conservatives ignore its new largest opposition party raining drastic change onto an unsuspecting public as Reform UK Ltd’s democratically elected membership lay back on their sofas in ignorant bliss.
The social media littering sewage they continually pump out includes the wish to hoist a Trumpian DOGE onto Northumberland County Council to try to back up their allegations of corruption at all levels whilst cutting off the Council’s workforce from their pensions and futures.
Their DOGE wishes have fallen at the first hurdle as to change the audit policy of the County Council they needed to change the Conservatives hardened in ‘Constitution of the Council’.
Dutifully, the Council held its meeting of the Constitution working group as it must do when new councils are formed. Reform UK Councillors who have three members of the panel being the largest opposition group didn’t bother to turn up to the meeting, we're led to believe they didn’t even submit a letter to offer constitutional changes to suit their case. Their ignorance allowed the Northumberland Conservative to push on with their wishes to step up the powers of their Council Leader, adopting a Leader with Cabinet model; effectively the Leader has totalitarian power over the Council and all decisions have to be cleared by him.
The him in our report is of course farming Councillor Glenn Sanderson whose first decision was to ensure his Cabinet felt weakened and must kowtow at his feet, ran out an article in the regional press naming his financial guru Councillor Nick Oliver as being responsible for the overspends in social services dragging down his image and killing off any ambition he may have had to topple his leader over the next four years.
Dictator, Despot or as we ask Dic-Tattie?
Time will tell but with Reform UK already washed up onto a litter strewn beach and hiding behind the street weeds they need to manage as local councillors we believe this first hurdle fall will render them useless and they will stick to their sofas producing swill until 2029.
Notes:
https://northumberland.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s25740/Constitutional%20Review.pdf
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