Is Ian Levy MP only suing businesses in the dying Town of Blyth or is he suing IPSA and the Press for telling the truth?

 

The beleaguered and now sounding very petty MP for Blyth Valley, the Conservative Ian Levy seems to have opened up a war with business people from the largest Town he represents, Blyth in Northumberland.

Following a huge number of social media posts and comments since 2019 about the lack of response from him to questions from the public, a concerned resident posted a video on YOUtube asking him questions regarding openly available information from the press and IPSA linking the video with an urgent appeal for help for businesses in Blyth illustrating the number of closed shops littered about the towns trading centre. 

Although this video may not be in the image Mr Levy wishes to portray of himself or a Town he represents he should really take the video as a compliment that people do want to communicate with him and attempt to pour oil on troubled waters in Blyth and not act in the manner of an ogre and drive ever more people away from trust in his position as a local MP.

Mr Levy appears to have lost the plot over this video and social media sites state that he is suing people who were involved with the production of the video, or/and sharer and commentators of the video which it's said run into many hundreds of people. He of course did run short handed from April 2020-Jan 2021 and only claimed £511 in staffing costs and £18,118 in office costs which appears contradictory to the IPSA issued accounts as reported in the Northumberland Gazette.

Other social media sites and commentators believe he is only suing selective sharers which appears to be in breach of the equality acts as defined here in the UK and not how top people are expected to behave as most would simply take any criticism and find out how they can improve matters and image for both them and their constituents.

The links below may help.

https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/politics/blyth-valley-mp-cost-taxpayers-ps247000-last-year-3541089

‘Ian Levy, who was elected in December 2019, spent £215,600 on office running costs in 2020-21, including £183,700 on staff wages and £31,900 on other office expenditures’.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19283356.mps-far-claimed-highest-expenses-north-east/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgKBevX9Dfw

Where do Northumberland Tories sit in the ‘Race to the Bottom’

 

With hundreds of thousands of people now at crisis point following twelve years of Tory rule, through the siphoning off of profits for the rich and removal of support for those at the bottom, leaving many the only option of attending the ‘workhouses without walls’ which foodbanks have become are now about to be sent on to real life workhouses as Liz Truss launches her ‘Public Heatbank’ program.

Social media seems to rule out Sunak and a colossal surge of love towards Liz Truss from Northumberland’s Tories appears to be where they are at.

Truss who may have u-turned on regional pay boards for now has attacked Northumberland’s largest neighbour Scotland and rubbished its leader, as she has no idea how much help the County gets from its Scottish neighbours and how reliant the Conservatives in the County have become on the Nationalists over the border for steerage on policy.

Let’s take a look at why Northumberland needs to emulate Scotland in assisting the population to survive the crisis the Tories have both created and now have everyone in.

Instead of promoting public heatbanks which in Northumberland may be placed in community centres, a new Tory culture centre or two or church halls in rural areas the all purpose unitary council which holds amazing powers and hasn’t used them since 2017 should emulate Scotland and provide £25 per week per child to every household with children under 16 from October 2022 and change the way in which family units can help each other.

A windfall tax on energy suppliers, stopped by ‘Bojo the great’ the nations outgoing emperor needs to be grasped with both hands and instead of your mother, father, granny and grandad being sat in a church hall knitting dishcloths or whatever other workhouse manufacturing is planned to go on in a Tory heat bank and only those in real crisis outside of families should need help through our rapidly growing workhouses without walls food bank system.

So the noise must ‘Come on Tories’ and do something as you have achieved nothing of note since 2017 except conserving your lack of achievement for a rainy day, well we can tell you it’s raining now.

 

The bleating forgetful Councillor Peter Jackson demands an investigation into 2016 activities of NHS international partnerships

 Last week, after the Conservative County Council used public money to buy themselves out of a series of Industrial Tribunals and Council Standards Boards investigations into wrongdoings disgraced former Council Leader, Councillor Peter Jackson joined his team at Northumberland County Council’s Audit Committee and began to raise the roof.

 Remembering that this is the same Councillor who ‘forgot he had a planning application for a wind farm on his land, used public money to pay huge legal fees to protect himself after he blew his own Governments plans to open up land for ‘Garden Village’ in the County, (which has led to homes being built as close to Northumberland’s boundaries as possible by Newcastle City Council, ruining the village feel of Ponteland part of which he represents). He was also accused of letting his henchmen Councillors run amok and put their own written reports packed full of lies through the Councils Audit Committee and when challenged by the International Auditors EY gave them Hobsons choice with his answers and they left the Council to its own devices.

 He was eventually thrown out of office as leader of the Conservative Group on the County Council by a combination of opposition Councillors and rebels from his own party.

 His roof raising comments included the rant of “the Council should go back to 2016 and investigate the ’International Department’”. His Conservatives won the May 2017 election in Northumberland following a nine year release of untruths turning both a LibDem and a Labour administration into ‘Toxic’ Councils in the eyes of the public. His toxicity doesn’t end there and the relief that his Party members had voted to get rid of hearings and investigations into their actions, all of which of course they denied but leaving the Council even more Toxic than under both of its previous administrations since 2008.

 So we thought that we would help and truthfully look at the InternationalTrading of the NHS from 2016 which the Council became a partner of in an administrative capacity and did not become a full entity entry into the partnership until Councillor Jackson signed a deal after whingeing on for months and dragged his henchmen off to London to suffer the ‘Bright Lights’ at the ratepayers expense. The photos above illustrate the beanie.

 

The link below shows how innocent and necessary for all involved the NHS trading arm was, an excellent idea from Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust poisoned by Councillor Jackson and his malignant party.

 

https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/Northumberland+health+and+care+leaders+sign+MOU+with+India+18102016151205?open

 

Spiraling Debt, Interest, Inflation and Blood Money Payments will Leave Conservative County Council Plans Shipwrecked?

 

Massive changes to the way the floundering UK economy affects Councils will hit Northumberland County Council this year following its high profile release of news that they are going to embark on a £307M capital program in this financial year. Those spending plans may have to be urgently revised as they are no longer thought to be viable or sustainable.

The borrowing requirement (debt) of the Council which sat at £807M pre covid, will take the Council’s outstanding debt over the £1Bn mark and with rising levels of base rates will raise revenue repayments on capital debt from £21.4M in 2020 to on or around £37M this year and that figure may be revised if interest rates rise through the Bank of England having to raise rates to attempt to curb inflation.

With the real time effects of inflation on Council budgets, Northumberland County Council’s early projection is that the revenue budget of the Council is expected to take an additional £22M hit as fuel, energy and running costs soar through the mismanagement of post brexit Britain by the Conservatives. 

These levels of payments from the revenue budgets of the Council, that's the budget which pays for the services you receive as a Council taxpayer, will be heavily depleted and services both standards and quantity will fall this year. When coupled with the blood money payments made to the outgoing Chief Executive of the Council, Mrs Daljit Lally to stop all legal action against currently sitting Conservative Councillors you can see that the Council which sent out the nations highest council tax bills this year will want even more from you as we move rapidly towards the next Local Government County Council elections.

It doesn’t stop there either, as the ambitious and very costly capital program of the County Council must be serviced and managed using revenue funding and as we described above that fund has been slashed by circumstance and mismanagement of the economy by both the Council and its conservative Government in office and its hopes of raising additional funds from is residents have been dealt a real time blow as there appears to be no respite or help to be given to residents as the UK’s energy price cap could rise to an average of £3,840 in January, analysts have warned, after Russia further curbed gas supplies to Europe. 

The move sent wholesale prices for this winter soaring to all-time highs and means a typical household faces paying £500 for its energy in January alone. The latest forecast from consultants B.F.Y. is likely to put more pressure on the Government to increase support for consumers as 20% of the population currently sit in the new energy and poverty trap, a figure which is expected to grow massively this winter.

 

Conservatives Stop Parish Council spending £15,000 so they can waste £209,000 paying off someone they fell out with!

 

In recent days Northumberland Conservatives who control Northumberland County Council, have spun out a cover story and attacked a parish council, Blyth Town Council, for having the temerity to propose to buy new civic regalia for its deputy mayor.

The cover story from Northumberland Conservatives was backed up by their member of parliament for Blyth Valley the RH Ian Levy MP and a subsequent survey was issued by the regional top Tory Boy Richard Wearmouth the deputy leader of Northumberland County Council to capture the imagination of people suffering from the Conservatives mismanagement of the economy that the parish council proposed spend of between £10,000 and £15,000 was a waste of cash.

Within two days of the Conservatives ‘spin of the month’ media campaign against a minor authority, the mainstream press revealed what the attack on the lowest level of local government was all about?

Those same Conservatives have agreed to spend an amount 14 times greater than the parish council in order to rid themselves of a chief executive they had fallen out with. 

£209,000 of much needed public funds has been poured into the pockets of the County Council’s Chief Executive in a deal that stops Conservative Councillors having to appear in front of a number of lodged industrial tribunals and possibly for the first time in their whole lives have to tell the truth to the chairperson of the tribunal and admit what's been going on at County Hall for the last six years and how toxic the Council has become under Conservatives rule. Let's hope the deal also didn’t include the heaps of standards boards hearings against the same Conservatives where some of the unlawful acts Councillors have been accused of by the outgoing Chief Executive may be opened out into the public domain

We now also want to hear or read what the RH Ian Levy MP has to say to his constituents about this raid on hard pressed public funds and is Councillor Richard Wearmouth going to run a survey to see what the people of the County think about the Conservatives latest debacle which is totally against the public interests.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumberland-council-daljit-lally-payout-24605514#ICID=Android_ChronicleNewsApp_AppShare

Cover Story:

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/blyth-town-council-mayoral-chains-24594069

 

Why doesn't Ian Levy MP donate some of his bling to Blyth Town Council?

 

On his web site today, Ian Levy MP who has had plenty to say about his local parish council wishing to purchase a badge of office for its deputy mayor and consort, showed a picture of his own regalia.

His garish collection of bling is probably just what the parish council needs to fulfill its civic duty and as a historical gesture he should give some of it to help out his local community so that the Council can consider helping his campaign to offset the increasing poverty levels he and his Government have caused to residents and their families across the Town he represents.

We are of course not sure if it isn't just one of his exaggerations, similar to the one when he told his supporters and the unsuspecting public of Blyth Valley that he had been a nurse.

Come clean Mr Levy and drop some of your trashy looking regalia off at the Council offices and let your constituents get the help they need to cover the financial struggles and inadequacies your Government has landed residents of the town of Blyth in.

 

Labour Mayor to help Ashington after Tories break promises in favour of £9M support for Blyth’s MP

 

During April 2018 the Conservative leader of Northumberland County Council, Councillor Peter Jackson, ran out report after report in the press and TV media stating ‘King Coal is Dead’ followed by the statement “I will build an £8m cinema in Ashington on the site where a new Council office block had been planned” and stopped by the same Peter Jackson which became known by locals as the ‘Ashington Whole’.

 In one of the reports the local political writer Sean Seddon reported that the stoppage of the Council office block cost the Council taxpayers £10m and £150,000 in redesigning the 20 acre plot as well as hardening in Peter Jackson’s often repeated lie that the the fixed price £32M Council office build was going to cost the Council £80M.

 In 2020 the Council, under the same Leader of Council, was reported to have given the project to build a cinema on the site to its arms length company Advance Northumberland and a financial plan explained to the public how the costs panned out when planning permission was sought for the cinema.

 That cinema hasn’t been started and Ashington instead of having its deprivation improved through 900 workers being sited in the Town Centre after the new Council office block was built has slipped further back in the doldrums even after the announcements that the terminus for the AB&T rail line will sit centrally in the Town.

 Having been let down badly by the Tory County Council its a good job that the labour Mayor for the North of Tyne region Jamie Driscoll has been thinking how to improve Ashington’s commercial lot and has put aside funding to help the Town, while the cinema promised by the Tories in Ashington is now to be built in the Town of Blyth next door in open competition to the Tories Advance Northumberland cinema in the boom town of Cramlington to support the red wall Tory MP Ian Levy who can’t make his mind up in who to support in the forthcoming Conservative leadership ballot and is asking the public what to do?

 The new £9m cinema in Blyth known as a Tory ‘Culture Centre’, funded by levelling up cash is to be placed on the Towns market square, the only large market square in the County of Northumberland in order to help people forget the poverty brought about by the Conservative Government in office. 

 
Of course the spend of £9M depends on who wins the Tory Leadership races as neither current star in the making will be able to support levelling up as one wants to tax the backsides off the public until the pockets of offshore investors can’t take any more cash out the economy and one wants to stop all project spend to deliver tax cuts immediately,neither scenario will help either Ashington or Blyth and lets hope Jamie Driscoll can magic up some cash to help an extra Town Centre in his patch, Blyth, when funding plans are announced by a new Tory leader in the autumn statement.