It’s noticeable that Northumberland’s farmers first council hadn’t read the horizon at all.

Red sky at night, farmers delight, Red sky in the morning farmers warning or so the old saying goes. 

Northumberland County Councillors who are about to change their spend on essential services switching their shockingly massive black hole in social services expenditure to reaming it wider through a planned spending spree on farmers have plenty of red sky mornings yet to come.

The Governments hardening up of workers rights has kicked many of their plans right in the teeth with a teachers strike locked in place in Berwick due to the Tories intransigence in speaking with staff and their wish to educate Berwick’s children on the cheap.

In order to save cash to spend now on farming glamour projects they have agreed yet again in secret to sink their redundancy scheme and offer ditched workers a nice reference instead.

But as a worker who may wish to remain employed in the public sector after all the bullying, criminal investigations that lead nowhere other than back to malicious Tory Members and the fact that departments have been remotely run for several years by highly paid absentee officers based in the midlands and London. Would you like to have Northumberland County Council sitting on your CV without being highly remunerated for it? Or are you willing to put up with the sideways glances other employers will give you in future that’s if a future is made available to you at all?

It’s time NCC got real and began a structured conversation on how they are going to drive through a structured redeployment plan with their teachers in the Berwick Cluster before the change in the law gives workers a stronger hand.