Has the Leader’s antics blown the cover on 8000 new green jobs in the River Blyth Basin?

 

2022’s longest day showed the disgraceful actions of the Leader of the County Council, Glen Sanderson JP live on your tv sets in your living rooms.

A special meeting of Council was held to take on board the report of the Leader’s ‘contractor’ Max Caller, a top bod when it comes to assessing Councils on behalf of the government.

The results of the Caller report was that Councillors of all groups MUST work together to safeguard the future of the Unitary County Council.

The Tories were well rehearsed with the usual cries of it wasn’t us it wasn't us from across the hall with the Chairman of the meeting, Councillor Barry Flux showing himself up when challenging an Independent Councillor, Georgina Hill when she was asking some pertinent questions from her constituents. It was quite embarrassing for the Tories as those questions were ones which the report should have picked up.

All in all, it went quite well with the Labour Party accepting of the report, knowing that without their acceptance things could only get worse for residents of the County and the Independent Councillors voicing matters hurled at them by their constituents and rightly so, UNTIL :

The Leader of Council started to sum up, then in an instant burst out with his rendition of the worst political speech ever, and blew the meeting and the developed good will of others apart when he began to point the ‘fickle finger of shame and fate’ at opposition councillors within the room, its was You and You and You and You he spun on blaming everyone but his own secretive council and its even more secretive one party cabinet who have two meetings each month one in private to do the deals and one on public to nod matters through.

The Council working together and developing a harmonious relationship with both the Local Enterprise Partnership and the leader of the City of Newcastle Council, the Mayor of North Tyneside Met and the Mayor for the North of Tyne region is essential to the support needed for the new green jobs being planned for the River Blyth basin.

The Office of National Statistics has just published its data on the green economy which revealed that an annual spend of £200,000 is necessary to support a ‘green job’ and that 42% of employment is temporary, elementary low paid jobs which indicates that £1.6Bn must be brought down annually via the levelling up system to produce the jobs promised in Northumberland. Much of which will be sucked up by Tory shareholders and profiteers and never find its way into the local economy but that apart.

The unbelievable antics of Councillor Sanderson and the constant blame game culture the Tories believe in whether in or out of Administration of Councils may have put the annual drawdown of funds as large as this in jeopardy and if the Tories want to continue to work with other Councils, the LEP and the Mayor they have to change rapidly, but it's now believed by all others in the room that they can’t and don’t really want the towns of the South East Northumberland, the Tyne Valley and Rural Coalfields of the County to prosper at all and are producing enough spin to stop things happening.

Councillor Sanderson needs to come clean and decide if his party wish to pursue the levelling up agenda on offer or simply does he and his mates want to have oversight of a county full of second homes and deprivation, the choice is yours Northumberland Conservatives and you can’t blame other for the mess you have laid at the feet of the residents of this wonderful County Northumberland since May 2017.