Real Northumberland Murky: Red Wall’ Councillors told in No Uncertain Terms that people don’t want Blyth’s Levelling Up destruction. Mistrust is rising.

Friday, 22 March 2024

Red Wall’ Councillors told in No Uncertain Terms that people don’t want Blyth’s Levelling Up destruction. Mistrust is rising.

The ‘Whole’ Story No 3

On Wednesday 20 March 2024 the crumbling Conservatives had an opportunity to own up to the shabby way they have treated and are hellbent on continuing to treat the residents of its largest Town,Blyth.

Under the cover of the reputationally damaged Michael Gove stardust program, ‘levelling up’ they have decided to continue with the practise of creating another ‘Whole’ as they've become to be labelled in a Town in South East Northumberland as part of their equalisation program of ruination in order to stamp their own culture plans onto long term Labour voting areas.

The telling off from Blyth’s Labour Councillors about the mess Blyth Town Centre’s in and the delays in building the Cowpen Road bypass and relief road fell on the usual deaf ears and the Tory’s delivered their standard stretched business promises that will take many segments of the Town plans dashing towards the twelfth of never as the now famous cash dispensers to the rich are almost devoid of wealth having burnt the Councils reserves on the altar of Mammon leaving the Tories third practise in retail hole building well on track to become a feature in the Town of Blyth.

The feature follows on from a very twisted consultation that took place without the public knowing until it was too late that Conservative Councillors from the ‘secret cabinet’ had agreed to buy the Keel Row shopping centre from Northumberland Estates for an undisclosed sum in order to pull it down and leave Blyth almost ‘retailess’ and residents fuming at the methodology of deceit used to con them into agreement with their earlier plans.

The Conservatives didn’t bother to apologise, but they did expose to the public that they are melting away in front of the public's eyes, with Cllr Daniel Carr seeing the light and telling the world that he’s courting the Labour Party, buying their beer at the local Wetherspoons on a regular basis.

Other Conservatives have already come out in favour of Reform. Research shows that one in three elected Conservative Councillors favour Reforms policies to the current Government on many issues in particular the ideas regarding refugees and asylum seekers.

Reform who sit just behind the Conservatives in third place according to the most recent polling data are releasing information through social media. Locally it's rumoured that their membership is growing rapidly in Seghill, Ponteland and Morpeth with cluster groups in a number of other Conservative voting areas.

We therefore have to ask if the Conservative Party will be fielding candidates at the next Local Government elections in May 2025 or will Labour be pitching against a Reformed UKIP?

The ultra right secret Tory’s of Northumberland may use the time left to destroy anything that may assist the next Labour administration with Michael Gove’s failed housing policies and his improvement plans leading to the weakening of housing targets is freeing up councils to axe planning permission from developments.

The Financial Times has reported that Gove’s decision to remove mandatory house building targets and cut the land councils need to allocate for housing is already resulting in local authorities overturning planning approvals for new developments.Right across Northumberland the anti-build strategic planning committee are gnawing at the bit to clear out the developers from everywhere but South East Northumberland.