But questions need to be answered about this one?
This Friday 18th October 2019 there’s a Jobs Fair to be held in the Wentworth Leisure Centre in Hexham.
50 top class local and national companies are hoping to recruit the staff they need and the outcome will hopefully lead to increased employment right across the
Its being promoted by the MP for the area Parliamentary under secretary for the Department of Work and Pensions Guy Opperman.
To publicise the event a flyer has been produced in its thousands and distributed widely across Tynedale and Northumberland as well as a huge levels of twitter, blog and facebook activity to advertise this wonderful event which will open up opportunities for many people as widely as possible and as it states on the flyer the event is supported by Northumberland County Council as it should be.
But this flyer isn’t just an advert, it’s a political leaflet entitled Guy Opperman MP’s TYNEDALE JOBS FAIR the flyer contains the the MP’s political imprint promoted by his agent Gordon Stewart a County Councillor from the Prudhoe area, an ex-policeman and the political leader of Northumberland Conservatives board.
The County Council is a Tory run organisation and Councillor Stewart has been pictured with arms on the shoulders of the in-crowd of that organisation on many occasions.
The questions that arise immediately from the release of this flyer is: What is the support from the County Council, a Council who is in charge of the physical operation of elections in the Tynedale Area?
Have the County Council supported this event and of course the production of this political flyer either in kind or financially?
What role has County Councillor Gordon Stewart played in harnessing or garnering the support of Northumberland County Council for his promoted flyer on behalf of his MP?
Was advice sought from either the elections department of the County Council its Chief Executive or its legal department prior to the decision being made by the Council to support this event and its flyer?
These questions and many more need to be answered by Councillor Stewart and the County Council both fairly and honestly and not as the secret council they are does on so many occasions stay silent and sweep the matters under the carpet.
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