Northumberland Splinter Group shrinks as professional investigation results leech out.

 A Christmas bye election in Hexham

A no-shock resignation of a Northumberland County Councillor took place on Wednesday November 3rd 2021 following long term investigations on behalf of the County Council standards board being sent on to Councillors and interim results being placed before them.

The results of the investigations by the Council into the standards required in public life to represent communities as a County Councillor saw Councillor Homer who holds a seat in Hexham resign with immediate effect. Following resignation standards investigations stop and cases are shelved without a public airing.

This set of events brings about the first test for the people of Hexham who showed in May 2021 that they are less than enamored with Conservative antics in the west of the County when the public voted off their stranglehold on Hexham Town Council for the first time in 60 years. With the exposure the Government has had through voting to support sleaze and corruption in Parliament this week, their lack of support for livestock farmers who eke a living on the marginal extremes on the edges of the Tyne Valley spending less in Hexhams shops are just two reasons why its not looking good for the Tories and Labour in the Tyne Valley who proved in May they are making a rapid comeback are off to an early start to muster support from Hexham residents.

A strange rumour broke out from County Hall in Morpeth yesterday linked to this item: Apparently a suspect package was left at reception, the Tories ignored requests to find out what was in it and didn't call security or the bomb squad. The Hexham independent Councillor Kennedy opened it up after the Tories had fled and reception was full of unsuspecting Labour Party councillors. Luckily for them it was Councillor Homer's laptop and phone. It's been said that the sadness that County Hall had not disappeared in smoke in order to bury information to be investigated by the standards board dampened the spirits of the Tories but we need to ask if further 'suspect packages' are being wrapped up in brown paper at a number of other Tory councillors homes as the investigations into Councillors and Advance Northumberland directors gather pace.