Anne Marie and Guy must be concerned about their futures after ‘Pandown day’?

 The results are in and although Northumberland County Council has been won by the Tories with an overall majority of one following a bit of luck in draw of straws following a draw with the Labour Leader, Susan Dungworth. 

In Cramlington and in a similar vein to Durham, the Tories were able to still sell the ‘Momentum Effect’ to voters (although that failed experiment died with the change of Leadership of the Labour Party) the cross County Tories have struggled to get anywhere near the almost 18% poll advantage gifted to them through wall to wall TV coverage for a full year with their PM sat in your living rooms at every TV news time and just as your settling down for your tea.

Tory blanket media coverage of ‘how good are we’ was not reflected across large swathes of the County losing seats to Labour, Independents and the Greens with a peek at the resurgence of the Lib Dems in Berwick with Isobel Hunter making a comeback and her style of working with the press in the North will cement her parties presence in prior to 2015.

 Labour lost seats in Cramlington to the Independents and the Tories who also gained in Blyth but not with the clear difference their national team had placed them in. 

After May 17th, ‘Pandown day’ the world will begin to spin the other way and Sir Keir Starmer will be able to get some traction and link his ‘family voters’ plan,

designed to support the modern workforce made up of workers engaged by small firms, white van women and men and self employed modern businesses, including the IT world, builders and craft workers from all family backgrounds into the Labour vision for the future. Brilliant policy planning he couldn’t get his shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds to sell to the nation and her replacement, Rachel Reeves will see this seismic shift in Labour thinking gel with Families over the next two years as the Tories race to call a General election before Austerity 2 and tax increases to pay for the pandemic begin to damage their standing across Britain.

 The shock of not wiping out the opposition will not be lost on Tory Central Office and both AM Trevelyan MP and Guy Opperman must be asking questions of their teams dedication to their own positions, in fact the Tories long term nonsen seat County Hall is still not settled and their choice of ‘Leak’ or as a farmer it may be ‘Leek’, Sanderson as their Leader will quickly flatten the scene for this very divided Tory group at County Hall and the ‘Advance Northumberland’ effect will drag them through the mire as the current chosen Tory Group Deputy,

Richard Wearmouth begins to ensure his management of that company is kept secret. We're sure the sieve machine will allow the truth to leak out and you the readers of this and other blogs will enjoy sorting the ingredients from the Tories' recipe for disaster!