This week's run around of known Tory social media and websites from the codgers group (as it has been too wet to meet at our usual venues) has thrown up a snare being set near a rabbit warren to entrap Councillor Daniel Carr by a different faction within his own party.
At a recent meeting of Northumberland County Council, it was reported by known Tories that an Independent Councillor Anne Dale from West Northumberland brought up the matter of the fear felt by older people who will lose their home phone lines in the next round of the Tory rip off Britain issue to ‘push out the digital telephone switchover to get everyone paying for broadband’ in order that investors keep the bucks rolling in’ while the lonely, poor and elderly fork out serious money from their pension or benefits for something they fear and can’t afford to use.
Allegedly Councillor Daniel Carr waxed lyrical on the brilliant rollout of digital technology across Northumberland and how easy peasy the digital switchover will be for residents.
During the roundup by the Codgers we noticed that Councillor Carr was encouraged by his counterparts to go to the press and publicise the rollout, luckily for him, he first ran it out on his social media pages.
As a young man who seems to have an excellent handle on IT and is well financed enough to be able to afford the rollout, he probably has high speed broadband in every room at his home, his youthful exuberance and keenness to get uninterested people to fork out isn't shared by everyone.
The elderly whose photo is featured on Councillor Carr’s advert and their organisations such as the North-East pensioners association and Age UK are not as blissfully accepting of the switchover and the costs that go with it as Councillor Carr. Neither are groups who support the poor and those with other difficulties who are worried about being able to contact people in an emergency.
Councillor Carr may also have missed the recent round up low pay areas in the Town he represents, Blyth,with Cowpen Ward in Blyth being home to the lowest average family incomes in the North East of England and well entrenched in the bottom 5% of deprived areas in the UK yet digital rollout will force those who struggle to pay their bills now be stuck with another bill (broadband costs) on top of the bills the Tories are forcing up through their greed and protectiveness of investors over people.
Councillor Carr, our advice is that you should back off this campaign until your government coughs up the cash to help those in need but with the right wing press speculating that the autumn statement will bring more benefit cuts and a fudge of the pensions Triple Lock to allow the Chancellor the opportunity to put £700M into his savings account for the General Election your mates who are encouraging you on this are really after catching you with your own personal ‘Ides of March’,we can almost hear you struggling before you utter the words ‘et tu Morpeth Movement’
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