After the last two years of worsening services, increased poverty and the non-deliverance of promises, voters in Northumberland are now learning at first hand the problems living under a unitary Council run by Tories who don’t give a damn.
The Council is in a toxic position of being accused of bullying on a number of occasions and although they often deny their guilt they have wasted public money and paid a number of six figure sums out to their victims.
Under their regime, an administration who rely on the votes of some independents they have told will get a new Town Centre if they toe the line to get their demonic policies through, the Tories in the County have managed to deliver nothing but hollow promises on a physical basis but have fallen at the feet of their masters at Westminster on policy when it comes to attacking almost 60% of their population through the application of severe austerity measures across the South Eastern corner and the former rural coalfield areas of this massive County.
People are more often than not fully committed to trying to resolve their own family problems than notice whats happening to them through local political means but we, the laymen have witnessed a massive growth in child poverty over the last two years, the downslide of many of the Council wards in the South East of the County into greater levels of deprivation, a huge rise in the level and use of foodbanks, ever more disabled people being denied access to personal independence payments and people are no longer shocked when we hear of teachers having to bring in food for their pupils.
The Tory answer of course is ‘more people are in work’, that may be correct but to comply with what we would rely on as being true people need to get value from their employment and that employment should improve their standing and position in society, but it doesn’t. We have a County where insecure and seasonal work as well as zero hour contracts and low income environments have become endemic, where poverty is the norm and the Tory business chair of Council Richard Dodd wears a body cam when he speaks to people.
The Tory media keeps telling the public that Labour doesn’t know where it stands on number of items but I can tell the Tories who read this blog that people are very clear as to where the Tories in Northumberland stand and it isn’t in the same queue for help that most of the Counties population find themselves in.
