Ian Levy MP Blyth Valley, Thinking like a LibDem won't help your hometown.

 In the run up to the 2013 local government elections the then LibDem Leader of the County Council stunned his hometown of Blyth firstly with his refusal to kick-start a regeneration scheme much needed for Blyth's Town Centre, instead he chose to build a fish-pass at Hedgley burn in the North of the County with the cash and then by stating "Blyth is a Dump!" Following up his statement with "I always shop in Cramlington" as an excuse to leave Blyth in the condition it had fallen into through the damage of Thatcherism running down traditional industries then offshoring manufacturing leaving both women workers and men living on benefits or leaving home to find work elsewhere.

This week a similar smite on the Town of Blyth has been issued to those politicians and decision makers who can also release cash to help Blyth. The MP for Blyth Ian Levy MP who was embroiled in a was he or wasn't he argument over his past employment and who told Parliament he was 'Born in Blyth but made in the Royal Navy' told a committee that residents of the Town "progress to Cramlington!"

Here at the Murky we will not decry Cramlington, as to us this looks like a pitch to move his residency and his obvious shopping preference to compete with the weakening MP for Hexham, Guy Opperman or possibly against the darling of the breakaway Cramlington Group of County Councillors, Wayne Daley as the Boundary committee in its challenge to gift the Tories more seats in Parliament see Cramlington as an asset painted blue. 

In the Tories future plans It will be severed from its Blyth Valley home and be transported either to the new Tynedale Constituency (centred in Ponteland) or the new Seaton Delaval with Whitley Bay constituency in either scenario it become a minor player politically, but his leaning towards
joining Jeff Reid's thinking group will not endear him to people who aspire to improve his hometown whether he emigrates West to Cramlington or not.

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