Northumberland, has had millions of pounds spent in seeking advice on how to work more publically, accept that opposition members of council should be heard without fear of oppression or ridicule and begin to listen to and deliver some of what its residents want and need.
Possibly the most expensive single spend was on the Tory Government’s red hot fixer, Max Caller who did a deep dive into Northumberland Conservatives and decided the Council was utterly multi dysfunctional.
Big promises from the Sandermouth leadership team have led the Council down the ‘road to nowhere’ as residents lose services at an alarming rate as the Conservatives ‘Never Ending Story’ of charging more each year while delivering less and less outside of Tory voting areas is never spoken about or questions answered about their NES even when pressured extremely hard.
At the last full council the often read parable from the Councils farming fraternity of treating opposition Councillors like dogs was once again revived at a televised meeting and the Council’s chairman sat on his backside and didn’t stop this disgraceful outburst. Watch the video and make your own mind up (link below).
The prime opposition ‘the dogs’ had been defeated at the same meeting in their totalitarian wish to become even more elitist than the Tories by wanting to break all community ties and rule godlike without regional mayors, police and crime commissioners, parish councils or town teams having any part in on the ground decision making. In fact their motion actually agreed with the Tories secret cabinet decision to have an all powerful leader in Northumberland to take the strain of delivering nothing people want.
The proof that closer ties across communities are essential sits within another costly report commissioned and not implemented using public cash by the Tories, that of the so laughably called the ‘Best Report’. It points towards those good things the Council should be doing but what isn’t included are the long promised powers that should be given to area committees.
The Tories haven’t even nodded agreement to that element of local government legislation and following Reforms motion on totalitarianism they are simply ignoring it.
Instead the Sandermouth regime have slashed all spend on local area committees and in their usual secret way have decided to stop them even though they they have never empowered them at all over the last eight years, they are instead going to have soft centred Community Committees and let the third parties Reform hate set the agenda for the County Council.
What a palaver, but the Never Ending Story rolls on and on.
https://youtube.com/live/xi5sxPcTWWI?si=mLxLw8O1lU8cV0-A
