£42m extra? After eight years in office elected representatives who are referred to as top councillor’s still have no idea what EQUALITY and ‘BEST VALUE’ is?

 

Councillor’s in Northumberland from the ruling conservative administration have been caught out in public by the regional press through their lack of transparency, lack of equality and equity with blagardness instead of honesty being spun out during this an election year..

 In recent months they have been caught out with their pressurised chat at a council meeting when the conservative deputy leader inferred that his Council is only interested in delivery of services in conservative held areas. 

 Their reply to a question from an independent Councillor at the last full council meeting in Morpeth’s County Hall was without true denial leading members of the public to believe that the indicated policy was already welded in place.

 These weasel worded Councillors are grasping at every straw, lolly stick an
d coffee cup foating past them on the river Wansbeck which flows slowly through their once majestic County Town of Morpeth which does get the aid it needs to keep up its market town image, but in reality it is home to many families damaged by the Councils lack of best value in its service delivery and their governments ecomonic crisis.

 The Council’s struggle to manage a £130m austerity cut in its budget laid before it since 2010 by the Conservatives in Government cannot be replaced in the seven months Labour has led the country but the noise from these County Hall conservatives are aimed at making believe they can, even though this council has failed to deliver best value on behalf of its residents, children and taxpayers since 2017.

The new Labour Government has poured an additional £20m into the service delivery pot of the Council which because of Labour's belief that everyone is equal and residents should receive good quality services whether you live in urban Ashington or rural Alnwick includes the once separate £2.4m rural services grant. This was followed by an extra £25m for schools, a budget that has diminished well below the rates of inflation over the last eight years.

The Conservatives on the Council say they can’t manage unless the Government coughs up another £7.2m in order to manage their budget but we Codgers must ask if that's because the cost of borrowing to finish off dozens of promised glamour projects is higher than expected? 

Or the waste of cash on battery factories and A1 dualling both national projects the Conservatives in Government promised but didn’t cough up any cash for? 

Or is it simply that they see improvements in budgets after years of cuts from their own dodgy Government as weakness and believe by spinning out how cruel a Labour Government is that their mismanagement and inability to deliver equitable services anywhere but in conservative held areas may lead a Labour Government to overlook their failure to deliver best value over the last eight years?

 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/top-councillor-vows-continue-fight-30799742?int_source=nba

 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/government-accused-attack-countryside-over-30807426

 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-schools-budget-substantially-less-30807385