No wonder they were named as the worst Conservative Council on BBC News Politics yesterday!
Following a full report in Private Eye for their antics this month, https://fb.watch/mVeicFydQo/ legal advice issued to councillors threatening they would lose their homes if they asked questions about Unlawful and Illegal trading by the leading group and the follow on from the Caller Review into Tory antics https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-county-council-max-caller-24179385
Within which Max the Governments investigator into what's gone and going wrong in Local Government. Reported that the Council needed a new Leadership and the Tory two Glen the glam Sanderson and his sidekick Rick Wearmouth ignored the advice to keep the cash rolling in, the Tories were exposed in an interview supposedly meant to be about Birmingham City Councils cash flow problems, Northumberland stole the show.
Northumberland Unitary Council which has held secret Conservative only cabinet meetings for six years and stopped issuing performance data into the public domain so that opposition councillors could scrutinise the mess they are and have made of a prime authority has now manipulated the constitution of the Council and slashed down debate to one question from any Councillor and a maximum of 10 mins on any agenda item. This follows on from reducing the number of full council meetings each year as it may affect sowing and harvesting for the landed gentry claiming a councillor allowance. (got to get the barley cash as well as the Council cash lads).
This disaster of a Council sets a budget each year of over £1Bn the financial report is usually set in two huge documents containing hundreds of pages and thousands of facts yet Councillors will only be allowed 10mins to debate any acceptance or rejection of the budget? What has become of democracy and Councillor ability in Northumberland when panic decisions and dodgy threatening legal advice runs the debate for people?
Labours Councillor Anna Watson took up the cudgel of the minimised time live on youtube yesterday and the actions of a legal advisor and his REM and flicking of papers said it all, the Council is as bad as the BBC describes https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffb.watch%2FmVeicFydQo%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1tfQhH9-Emo2QwBzmGCJeSDax7EKu-wUY-DwNXILBON15JdU7D9-EVjYw&h=AT0wjruoErmkiHsdKre-pA8lkGqgcgbg3latp0oDnYhcI0xWGqUPS5jggYwa5QADlXKvgrp2B1D-2R107zTbS1P4lERd-0fCLfhaeGBzxfZrecD9mb7Oy6xtrtsbwKiwV1c&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3In3P0dW09T7qNWd5MQC_7qNHnklPj1P1R6y8PNeG_0WQl2u18Nm3sN2MUF8uQOi29Grv7v5VQkil-qn1PtD4sP1UnZ_4lBV7l5nMGn0dwXDhK3QAF0dodCs7vlo8A92PkljwJJzr2JUlQs1cmA
Murky praise Anna: Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah.
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