It doesn’t matter how many times Council Leader Glen Sanderson appears dressed to death on Hexham TV to tell Northumberland County Council residents everything in the gardens rosy his secret cabinet have already backed his panic decisions to shrink the councils services.
Information is leeching out from his workforce and the Trade Unions that instead of backing projects to drive up trade and grow the economy across this geographically diverse English border county, raking in additional income to drive better service delivery, Glen and his other secret cabinet cohorts are about to launch another massive round of redundancies and buy out resignations that will seriously damage the Councils ability to deal with the essential functions unitary county councils are designed to deliver and were created for.
In recent weeks we the public have been force fed through the regional press short tongued excuses for this latest planned rundown of the counties economy. Another planned debacle list such as Councillor Oliver, blaming SEND kids costs, the amount the Council spends on support for older people and other Conservatives wheeled out to explain the cost of repairs to public buildings which stock surveys had pointed towards a decade ago, yet Glens team have quietly ignored them for the last eight years while the fabric of those buildings have been exposed to some of the most severe weather events in recorded meteorological history.
While sitting in his hand made suits on web TV not pressurised by political reporters to dull his thinking and draw him back to reality Glen has attempted (and in the codgers view failed) to grasp the importance of the Council to its residents and remind him that as a top politician for Castle Morpeth Borough Council prior to the inception of the Unitary Authority he followed a similar path and the residents under his wing suffered badly.
From that perch he was able to blame the old county council but now Glen sits on a unitary pedestal and is supposed to deliver all the services the old districts and boroughs excluding Castle Morpeth managed excellently along with the four main functions of the old county council.
His failures since his party’s former leader, Peter Jackson was ousted from power has been a series of underwhelming failures coupled with an innate ability to quickly misunderstand and forget the very expensive work undertaken at great cost by the myriad of consultants he has engaged to improve things whilst borrowing millions to deliver sparkly and glittery new items not wanted by the public he’s meant to serve.
Glen, you need to grasp the nettle and realise that people need their Council to improve lives year on year, not improve a few lives and leave everyone else ‘wishing they weren’t here’. Particular the homeless, elderly, jobless, poverty stricken not in work or education young people and needy that you have turned the other cheek against for years.
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