Real Northumberland Murky: Proposals submitted for £6.5m investment in Morpeth high school? No wonder broken Tories have begun ‘double charging’ for street weeds in Cramlington?

Monday 22 July 2024

Proposals submitted for £6.5m investment in Morpeth high school? No wonder broken Tories have begun ‘double charging’ for street weeds in Cramlington?

Following the proposal by the Conservative-only secret cabinet based at County Hall in Morpeth to sink hard to find public money into an academy school in Morpeth we codgers find well known environmental activist and twin hatted Councillor supporting his tory led Town Council to spend more cash doing what his prime Council has already charged the highest Council Tax in England to undertake.

Councillor Wayne Daley who is a principled person with scruples as his desertion of his post of Deputy Leader of Northumberland County Council when everyone but the Police were involved in a huge and well reported nationally, workforce bullying scandal shows testament to, has succumbed to populism in order to save his political income as a councillor by double charging his residents.

Town and parish Councils were invited by the County Council to have the opportunity to engage in additional grass cutting across all or certain areas of County Council managed land. Before choosing this now exposed populist route because his prime authority is wasting and hemorrhaging cash on an almost weekly basis in Morpeth and Ponteland reducing service delivery everywhere else, Wayne Daley and his Council REFUSED to pay for additional land maintenance and demanded that the other two thirds of the Tory Group based at Morpeth County Hall spent more on grass cutting in Cramlington because they accumulated more Council tax from that Town than anywhere else.

He and his Tory cohorts on Cramlington Town Council have now begun spraying street weeds using contractors with what's been said on social media is the highly toxic plant poison ‘Clinic’, or at least a derivative of it, which isn’t toxic to bees but is destructive to aquatic organisms. Surely even the normally positive environmental activist Councillor Wayne Daley should realise that additional spraying in the streets over and above the calculated average designed by horticulturalists working for the County Council will enter Cramlington’s water courses and weaken the local environment.

Councillor Daley and his Councils new populist approach to spending more and more of the Parish precept collected by Cramlington Town Council and his Town Councils refusal to join in with additional grounds maintenance spend from 2021 do not seem to sit together yet Councillor Daley is painting this waste of cash as a betterment of his Councils yearly raids on householders incomes.

Come on Wayne? Even you as a true blue lost conservative must realise that by not stopping the waste of cash in Morpeth and Ponteland, the possible privatisation of the Council cultural services, the rundown of Arts and Theatre funding and of course the wobbly grounds maintenance program not supported previously by your Town Council and your team at Cramlington openly criticising the broken and out of control County Council Tory group in power, you have simply opened yourself and your Cramlington Conservative group to ridicule and scorn! As well as potentially poisoning our waterways.