For the first time since being deposed by Morpeth Tories from his highly paid job as business chair of Northumberland County Council, in the rout by the current leader to show who’s boss over the partly modernised and greatly expensive to run almost empty monolith known as County Hall, Councillor Richard Dodd has come out in the local northumberland press to talk to readers about the future problems and perceived costs of dealing with a dreadful disease affecting ash trees across the County.
His completely true message warns the general public of the mammoth expense of removing trees on the scale he describes, up to 40% in one of the most rural and wooded areas in the UK are expected to be infected over the next few years.
The plea contained within his story is that landowners and the County Council who between them own the 190,000,000 trees which grace this huge County is that in disposing of diseased trees will need Government help and the experience of himself and others following storm Arwen is that tree removal on such a large scale is both time consuming and costly.
The Tory behind his story isn’t contained within the annals of the local newspaper who describes Councillor Dodd as a farmer?
That's not untrue, but much of his rural business is taken up with processing and selling timber for fuel to those living outside smokeless zones who own wood burning stoves and Councilor Dodd’s wealth and riches rely on an unending supply of timber.
The Tory in him pleading for Government help to fell trees is the innate being within all real Tories to profit from the downfall of others as wouldn’t it be good if his timber processing for profit excluded the cost of felling to increase supply.
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