Real Northumberland Murky: Smashed Tory Council spending £2.46m to buy votes in Morpeth.

Monday 25 March 2024

Smashed Tory Council spending £2.46m to buy votes in Morpeth.

Northumberland Conservatives have agreed through their ‘secret council cabinet’ just days after releasing the results of a Peer Revue into the Council’s nefarious activities which said the Council was showing ‘green shoots’ of closer working between partners to gift £2.46m towards the construction of a sport facility at Morpeth’s Academy High School.

This brand new sports facility will sit a few hundred yards from a one year old £21m Sports Centre opened by the same Council in Morpeth and according to the Academy Trusts web site appears that it will be in open competition for clients

This gift is from Council with huge worries about expenditure and is slashing services and projects County-wide with Blyth residents having cash removed to develop a footbridge over the Northumberland rail line to ensure a much used public footpath linking Blyth’s two largest communities is closed for good announced as recently as last week.

It must also be galling for a Council School in Blyth, Newsham Primary school, who have had to rely on the builders Taylor Wimpey coming to their aid to help them develop better play facilities for young children at the school that an academy school not in the Council's remit is to receive so much cash towards their project.

In Prudhoe the Town missed out on the Conservatives £65m spend on leisure facilities and when the local Tory councillor was lambasted on social media they came up with a plan to ‘refresh’ its Leisure Centre, spending £1.5m on the building. That's approximately 7.5% of the funding the Public Cash Philanthropists from Morpeth have spent on the famous ‘lick of paint’ to redecorate half of County Hall on the outskirts of Morpeth.

Also in the same week as their revelation to buy votes in Morpeth and gift a private academy cluster £2.46m to the detriment of everyone else, the Council has been accused of not coughing up the cash to ensure the modernisation of the Maltings Theatre jointly funded through the Scottish Councils involved with the Borderlands funding regime and it’s said that the project has been left high and dry as a promised £8m isn’t available from Northumberland’s Morpeth based conservative tribally run Council.

We would like to know what green shoots the Peer Review noted, as it wasn’t the ones that deal with equity, equality, fairness and understanding. It must have meant the ‘green shoots' for Morpeth and nowhere else.