For almost two years the Tories in Northumberland have been leading residents in Northumberland into the fantasy belief that finance regarding the reopening of the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne Northumberland Line to passenger traffic is in place for an early finish date. They have had minster after minister up to Blyth, photo after photo taken with the Blyth MP Ian Levy and leading Councillors from Morpeth to show that the former Leader of the Conservatives in Northumberland’s promise that he wouldn’t spend in Blyth or Ashington must be forgotten and that huge investments will be made, as always with Tory Stories (sometime in the future).
The recent reports in the Chronicle that the Government want to cut budgets for rail projects in the rush to start Austerity 2 and that Northumberland County Councils administration had accepted cuts to the much vaunted £34m investment wiping out the new station and transport hub at Bebside which would bring the line so close to opening you could smell it.
Election panic set in immediately into the bleeding hearts of Northumberland Tories and the Morpeth Mob were found quaking so hard that a minister had to be delivered for ever more photos to prove their secret Cabinet decision to slash the project was wrong and that it would be U-turned and the £34M investment stands.
All of the noise surrounding this debacle was sorted yesterday when the North of Tyne Mayor who spoke with Government released a statement that the Station at Bebside would go ahead but his caveat was that the line still wouldn’t open until the Tory Government coughed up another £128m as the project will cost £162m.
Yet the Tories in Northumberland agreed to slash cash from £34M!
Will it ever be reopened?
Not with the fantasy story tellers in the Tory party involved it won’t.
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