May sound like the cavalry, they may smell like the cavalry but if they act like the cavalry they will end up like ‘Custer’?
Wanye Daley. The
Northumberland County Councillor closest in thinking to Leon Griffiths the
fantastic writer of the story ‘Minder’ which contained the character with a
doppelganger surname Arthur Daley has appeared in this blog on a number of
occasions covering the comedy of errors he has been in charge of at County Hall
in Morpeth.
Most recently
we asked the question about his resignation from the Cabinet led by the
beleaguered and very avoidable Councillor Peter Jackson as to whether Wayne was
lying in wait ready to pounce and devour him in order to race to the top of the
pile and fulfil his dreams.
Cllr. Daley has
managed to cluster his troops in Cramlington and tell the public through the
press how he cannot support his Ceausescu style Leaders actions.
We hear his
Leader asks different questions and makes contrasting statements regarding
Councillor Daley’s antics when speaking behind his back, his closest allies now
feel thoroughly let down by Daley’s actions. The disquiet revolves around the
complete lack of achievement surrounding the bravado statements Daley has made
since 2017 including his early desertion of the wreck known as Advance
Northumberland (but more of that in another blog). Daley’s failures are
enormous and when the investigations of the County Council cease will go down
in history as HUGE by public sector standards.
Wayne Daley
promised to seriously improve and raise educational standards in
Northumberland. We haven’t noticed them yet Wayne?.
He meddled with
educational clusters in the West to develop an ‘I know best one system for one
County’ model and has pulled down the Tory votes of many of his colleagues from
Prudhoe and Wylam in the east right along to the North Pennine wards in the
West. The strong team of protesters known as ‘STARS’ will never forgive his
interference and we know Peter Jackson won’t.
His reinvention
of Post 16 travel arrangements has increased each year since its reintroduction
and if taken on Months used considering the lockdown period is now much more
costly to the ratepayer than in 2014 when Tory Government budget cuts forced a
rethink of cost onto the last Labour administration to save services and jobs.
But his biggest
mess so far is Hexham High School and its runaway costs to be covered by the
County Council and it’s a school they are not involved with at all, its an
academy, the estimate so far is over £4m in the red and expectant Council
schools such as Astley and Holywell Primary will be losers as the Daley dosh
drifts away into the pockets of his Contractors.
We could list
much more but we need to get back to the last stand element.
Daley, the
Labour Party and a group of well meaning independents may get away with ousting
Peter Jackson from office on Wednesday 3rd September 2020, but we
would like to show how it might not pan out that way.
Peter Jackson
and his prime allies the bedevilled Cllr Richard Wearmouth and the shadow lurking
Jack Alexander Gebhart will still be sitting on the Conservative Parties
regional committee, with the newly promoted to Cabinet in Daleys place Guy
Renner Thompson, Barry Flux and the now infamous Kath Homer backing them up
from their exalted Conservative Association standings in Northumberland. From
those positions they will be undertaking the selections for Council candidates
for next years local government elections.
Will the names
of the Cramlington three go into the hat, Swinburn, Dunbar and Daley, or not?
Custer ring a
bell here?
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