Bloodthirsty Councillors Criticised for ‘Gentlemanly’ Attitudes.

As the Northumberland layman contributor who lives in the most rural location in our beautiful County I spend a great deal of time on the telephone each day making contact with my neighbours, family, local businesses and the authorities. As I don’t have access to high speed broadband yet (although the authorities are working hard to bring it on) it has taken me a little while to pick up the noise on social media surrounding this matter.

A report in the Newcastle Journal on 19^th September 2019 explained the activities at the Morpeth and District local area Council on the 16^th September, where the subject brought up by the Gentlemen farming Councillors who run Northumberland County Council, Chairman Richard Dodd, Leader of Council Peter Jackson and Glen Sanderson, head of Local Services three of the pack who cut down the number of democratic meetings of the County Council to suit their money making business interests and the agricultural calendar in order that they are not brought to task regarding their seemingly hooray henry decision making by the public at large. The subject they wanted to discuss at this publicly reported meeting was the Policing of poaching from their land.

Not content with acting themselves in front of the press, boasting that their businesses include the bloodthirsty activities of hunting shooting and fishing they unbelievably criticised the Police for not personally informing them of whom their local policeman is.

This release of how their gouty lifestyles have evolved since taking office as a Councillor on the public’s behalf is what led to the crescendo of activity on social media particularly from the South East of the County and some of the Counties most deprived areas. People who may not be averse to the Country lifestyle are disgusted at the laziness of these Gentlemen Councillors and Farmers who employ staff to work their land whilst they take part in their pursuits and tweed and barbour coated activities all the time holding positions at the County Council which warrant the supply of secretaries and teams of admin staff at their disposal. My friends in the Morpeth Rural areas all have access to high speed broadband and I suspect their farms would be some of the first to be equipped with this communication medium yet here we have three snobby people living impressive lifestyle’s who admit they cannot press the keys on their PC, use a telephone nor even ask the staff who work hard for them on a daily basis to phone the Police to find out who their local bobby is.

I only have the telephone and basic internet to help me, I am not a Councillor yet I made it my business to speak with a local policeman following the last reportable criminal activity near my home and the Police have been very kind and kept a little bit of contact with me ever since.

I’m sure the County Council who offer evening classes through their adult training arm on every subject under the sun will have a course on ‘how to feel confident using the phone’. It’s important, in fact essential that these three people who are obviously too posh to dirty their hands or pick up germs from a telephone receiver are sent on that course.
 

 

 

Deprivation concentrated in post-industrial areas of North and North East

A new Government report shows that the that the most dense concentrations of deprived neighbourhoods in England are still to be found in the post-industrial areas of the North and North East, such as Middlesbrough, Liverpool and Blackpool.

The Seaside village Jaywick in Essex, has been named the most deprived area overall for the third time in a row since 2010. Meanwhile wealthy incomers moving into new-build apartments in regenerated neighbourhoods has altered the socio-economic profile of some of London’s traditionally most-deprived areas.

The latest official indices of deprivation in England shows that the high concentrations of deprivation found historically in the boroughs of Tower
Hamlets, Westminster and Islington appear to be becoming significantly diluted. However, one inner London council leader said the deprivation data did not appear to reflect the reality of poverty in local communities or the pressure on local authorities who had to deal with its effects.

In Northumberland, the Unitary Council and its attached partner Clinical Commissioning Group from the County NHS have ignored the Government invitation to locate the pockets of serious deprivation that can be found across this huge County, allowing it to slip to 122^nd in the current list. This major cock-up by the Tory administration in County Hall and their medical allies who are hiding the truth on so many issues will see deprived areas across Northumberland lose £Millions in aid to help the less well off while the number of families who need to use food banks and the number of children who are undernourished grows.