Real Northumberland Murky: Conservatives fail to deliver their promised 8000 jobs in Blyth?

Tuesday 16 April 2024

Conservatives fail to deliver their promised 8000 jobs in Blyth?

Instead they take 40 pieces of silver to clear off the site.

Getting involved with not one equity company but three shows that the wives, girlfriends and boyfriends of Northumberland County Conservative Councillors mustn’t have any say in their culture and brand of politics, or they would be reminded of Coco Chanel’s view of success when she said “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

Watching the Leader of Northumberland Conservatives, Councillor Glen Sanderson hum and haw his way through two television interviews stutteringly praising the fact that his and his compatriot ‘red wall’ Ian Levy MP’s promises have shifted dramatically from the position of failed twice already to a you never know position that won’t be properly analyzed or scrutinised until 2031 at the earliest.

Deeply embroiled in the fact that the Council has been labeled as being close to untrustworthy in a recent report into their activities, The Local Government Association peer who conducted this in depth review ‘heard mixed views on the effectiveness of relationships and processes in local areas’ utterly essential to trust between political groups.

In the recent TV interviews Northumberland Conservatives seem to be really happy that in seven years time they may deliver a few hundred jobs for data technicians a minimum of an 80% reduction in their former promises, when they have set aside £millions designing the closure of Blyth’s Town Centre spending public money to develop a college for the energy industry that this project they are giving full backing too illustrates is no longer required, as 8000 highly paid jobs to build batteries are going to Sunderland, Coventry and Somerset fully sponsored by the Conservative Government in Office who didn’t send a single penny to bail out Northumberland’s jobless figures a serious confidence factor towards pubic belief in this new project ever reaching its goals.

The single most factor for this busted flush of a council who not many weeks ago were being quizzed openly regarding their disappearing reserve funds appears to be the purchase price of the land within this sites bounds as for this 235 acre site The receivers handling the sale did not disclose the amount paid for the site, but Northumberland county council documents show the local authority will create a £110m “growth and investment endowment fund” as a result of the deal. An excellent sweetener to bail out a crumbling set of accounts.

So let's watch this space! As it looks like this tale will become very boring over the next seven years if Northumberland Conservatives manage to hang on and form an administration in May 2025.