Real Northumberland Murky: The ‘Hesperus’ reborn? as unwelcome Conservative Infrastructure plans across Northumberland will see Labour routing 3 dodgy MP’s living on undelivered promises

Hesperus was an iron-hulled, three-masted, passenger clipper ship that was built in Scotland in 1874 and scrapped in Italy in 1923. She was built for Thompson and Anderson's Orient Line service between Great Britain and South Australia. Its mythological demise during a shipwreck was the subject of a poem by Longfellow about vanity and how mankind and nature cannot be separated yet nature always wins when confronted head on by mankind.

It's the natural thoughts of man that are being twisted to believe all will be right if Northumberland’s Tories deliver on at least a smidgen of their infrastructure plans before the general election is called, but it's also in the nature of man to question what has been historically promised to them yet not delivered as the ‘red wall’ loses brick after brick and its collapse is imminent.

Blyth’s Red Wall MP Ian Levy is struggling to step up to the plate now that his regular and ongoing promise to gift the area 8000 new jobs has unravelled and the only creation is a hole where Blyth’s market place once proudly stood. He has deserted Blyth for the new area of Cramlington with Killingworth as seat he’s expected to lose. He’s scrapped his interest in his home town with scaffolding on buildings that will be destroyed to build an apprentice training school for jobs that haven’t and won’t appear. Ruining Blyth’s shopping experience is diabolical as Blyth is Northumberland’s largest town.

Very hurt locals said when we spoke with them “I feel completely let down by the Tories, Brexit and what they call levelling up, my Town is no more”.

“ At least the last Labour council at county hall tried to support Blyth folk; they reopened the giant co-op store which ran down following Thatchers industrial closures and offshoring and opened three very good large useful stores and modernised Poundstretcher. This lot in power has closed Argos, Wilko, Bon Marche, New Look and loads of other shops, for what?”

“Next door in Ashington they have a huge college that churned out engineers for construction projects, mining and shipbuilding work for decades yet the Conservatives want to replicate that long term success by pulling down Blyth and building a college instead of a shopping centre. Surely that will close Ashington college and give nothing to Blyth people unless you own a pie shop to feed students cheaply”

“It's a good job that the 309 and 308 go to North Tyneside's shopping centres at Whitley Bay and Silverlink from our town as we can’t get a pair of shoes, shirts, jeans, blouses or frocks here in Blyth.”

In the North of Northumberland, Let's start with the promises missed for over half of the Counties geography yet run out as a plus by the MP for Berwick Anne Marie Trevelyan on a regular and ongoing basis? That of the installation of Rural High Speed Broadband, a project meant to protect and cosset families living outside of the Counties Towns.

The aim to keep businesses and families living and working in the countryside is a failed promise using high speed broadband as a catalyst for rural communities nationally that the MP for Berwick has been very vocal in her support for the scheme. It's backed up by a voucher that doesn’t anywhere near cover the costs of supply to farms and rural homes, essential services to deliver business in a worldwide marketplace altered and tweaked until it's lost its way completely.

The North’s MP is completely entwined with her local government team based in Morpeth’s county hall who have been found wanting in most areas. With the Government's own advisor on all things local government, Max Caller slating them following an investigation into what's been going on. Both the North of County MP and the Council led by Conservatives have rolled out the commencement of a short stretch of road improvements on the A1 and failed to deliver for the last 13 years even though she held a top post in the Ministry of Transport. They have been accused of hiding the Councils assets in its own company Advance Northumberland with the Labour opposition group determined to bring the whole kit and caboodle of Advance in house and make it a regeneration department of the Council. Ms Trevelyam has been caught up and is being stained through the mess happening at her Conservative County Council that she can’t shake off.

An alteration to her constituency has brought the Town of Morpeth under her wing. Her local conservatives in trying to buy votes for the general election have offered to subsidise a new sports facility for the local Academy school which they have no control over, it sits a few hundred yards from a brand new public sports centre costing £21m which only opened this year.

At this juncture we will remind Ms Trevelyan that prior to 2017 Northumberland Labour spent £23m to stop the Town of Morpeth from flooding and built a £35m bypass to help traffic flow in the centre of the Town itself and didn’t win any seats at the 2017 election. She needs to begin worrying now as Labour rolls forward hoovering up her former vote.

In the wild west of Northumberland, The MP Guy Opperman has very little confidence in retaining his seat with Labour climbing all over the lack of investment in his constituency where the Conservative driven economic crisis is being felt very hard indeed and where those who thought they were middle class have begun to realise they are simply rural tax raising fodder for a rotten Government and its local council administration.

Mr Opperman, an MP since 2010 has never bothered to buy a home in his constituency preferring to live in a rich belt in the south. And the tongues that drive opposition to him in Northumberland’s roman wall country have spun the story out that as many of the Conservative Councillors in the West have decided not to run in 2025 remembering that the Conservatives won two seat on the draw of straws allowing them to form an administration that's been in trouble for 7 years and with Conservative supporters drifting to Reform Mr Opperman has no one to aid his campaign as Labours supporters are all over the constituency like a rash.