A response from Northumberland County Councils Deputy Leader, Councillor oh! That whatshisname, to comments in the press from the Labour Group Leader Councillor Scott Dickinson regarding the 'look at me I'm a Tory' message put out about Council Tax rebates shows that the Conservative Party in Northumberland have quickly forgotten the problems, deceit, atmosphere and misuse of public money they have slithered through since 2017.
So following the forgetful press release we thought it was time to remind everyone of just how awful they have been in office?
The Tories terror campaigns started with them paying out hundreds of thousands of pounds to protect themselves from prosecution when they stopped a project supported by their own Government in office to build a Garden Village near Ponteland.
They also removed the core strategy plan which linked all policies of the Council under one banner and replaced it with a 'Local Plan' designed to form a green ring around their chosen heartland of former Castle Morpeth district, dumped nearly all new build programs into the south-east of the County allowing no development in villages leading to the closure of local amenities and a massive increase in second homes.
They recruited new people into their wolf pack who some would consider undesirable, such as cops thrown out the force and nasty people you wouldn't like your children to meet.
Those people, uncontrolled by the forgetful and possibly senile Morpeth Movement, began a series of attacks on officers who openly reported that bullying was rife within the Council.
Officers began to leave in their droves to be replaced by interim contractors and in some cases professionals who worked from hundreds of miles away and didn't have any affinity at all in or with the County and therefore the hit on the public purse was enormous as Tories ran wild and free promoting misogyny and huge ring fenced spend in Castle Morpeth leaving other areas to pay the massive increase in borrowing costs through their huge annual rises in Council Tax.
Service levels began to shrink back and places suffered from cutbacks beyond the norm.
A council leader, another whatshisname, oh! Jackson was kicked out of office.
Things got so bad and reputations suffered so much that an expert in correcting failure, Max Caller had to be brought in to work his magic. Northumberland was one of his few failures in his long well quoted career.
A modernisation team was brought in to help and as soon as the Movement found out about the changes they proposed the leadership sacked them.
Costs to the public purse then escalated when a whole management team was kicked out and more indemnity was sought in the form of a very costly deal plan to keep councillors out of court.
Councillors not part of the movement were threatened with the loss of their homes if information leaked out about how bad things were.
More recently with the Council asked by financial experts to curtail some of its spending plans on the basis that they were far too costly for what they were, two fingers were put up to officers who had the gall to question the senile.
Oh! And on the name of the deputy, We think it is dicky something, or does he even remember his own name at all?
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