Real Northumberland Murky: Northumberland Conservatives pulling down 100 social homes in Blyth shows their supporting Braverman and Sunak’s views!

Monday 22 April 2024

Northumberland Conservatives pulling down 100 social homes in Blyth shows their supporting Braverman and Sunak’s views!

Back in November 2023 Suella Braveman lost her job as Home Secretary when she described homelessness stating “homelessness is a lifestyle choice” her comments were bounced by the Government's popularity gurus and she was sacked by PM Rishi Sunak.

The complete and utter failure of those same gurus to raise the PM’s profile has brought out this Billionaires true colours as he now thinks that attacking the vulnerable may halt the slippage of his party members over to Reform and put a block on Labour’s popularity as he announced in early April 2024 that he’s planning in true mad despot style to fine and imprison ‘rough sleepers’ as most have very little Sunak’s plans will fill prisons to bursting point.

Fully supportive of their Governments attitude, Northumberland’s ultra right wing Tories have decided to demolish 100 homes that they struggle to rent out through their infamous choice based lettings scheme Homefinder even though 4000 people are waiting for social housing and the Council is hammering the Government's Homelessness Prevention Grant and its own General Fund in conjunction with the Universal Credit housing allowance due to an untenable growth in younger homeless and section 21 evictions by private landlords increasing and the lack of help criticised by Northumberland Labour’s Leadership late last year.

The Council has been awarded £20m to modernise and aid the supply chain of new Council homes under another branch of levelling up funding. It has decided to pull down Council homes and in the reported words of Deputy Leader Councillor Richard Wearmouth that “we will be able to use the space to develop affordable homes”.

Widespread criticism of Councillor Wearmouth by known Conservatives on social media makes demands to know if that means the Council will lose control of new housing on those sites and affordable homes developed in line with the Government's guidelines which haven’t changed since 2016 leaving them exposed to being developed by builders and people being supplied a mortgage whose employment status makes it difficult to service regular mortgage payments. A number of Conservatives have said if they are to be Council homes, tell people they are to be Council homes.

But we codgers want to know how the Council under the current regime will change Homefinder to help young people stopping them getting lost among the 4000 others, almost 3% of the Councils households on the system seeking safe housing and to come clean by releasing the real cost of housing vulnerable young people in hostels, hotels and homes of multiple occupancy and the dreadful effect on them mentally for months while their cases are reviewed?