A Laymans Guide to Politics

From the Borders to Tyne and over to the west of the county we try and cover stories that concern the canny folks who live here in our beautiful county of Northumberland

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Sunday, 27 March 2022

Public Sector Pay Down 20% through ‘Conservative Austerity’ years yet Public Servants are expected to absorb an £81 per month drop in living standards?

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  The 1997 introduction of ‘agenda for change’ in the NHS and ‘Single Status’ in Local Government was extremely progressive towards achievin...
Tuesday, 22 March 2022

GMB, are right to point out that the river Blyth’s emerging energy businesses need to pay top dollar and NFU’s call to increase the available workforce should be heeded.

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  With the news that the aggressive tactics of JobCentre plus has led to a fall in unemployment to well below pre-pandemic levels and that...
Sunday, 8 August 2021

Levelling down the North East to help West Country Tories is an abominable policy!

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  It doesn’ t take much to send a shiver down the spine of Tory ministers for them to abandon policy in secret in order to protect their own...
Thursday, 15 July 2021

This government is engaged in a toxic culture war to divert attention from its failures

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Article by Allan Hepple from Cramlington The torrent of racism suffered by members of the England Team is nothing short of disgraceful. The ...
Friday, 9 July 2021

Privatisation of the NHS here we come!

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  The Layman welcomes the new Journalists from Cramlington,  Alan Hepple former Northumberland County Councillor and ex town councillor.  We...
Wednesday, 7 July 2021

Northumberland gigafactory Planning Permission approved

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  Northumberland  County  Council   has  approved  plans  for  an  electric  vehicle  battery " gigafactory"  that  could  create ...
Monday, 21 June 2021

Rearranging the Deckchairs on the Titanic will certainly lead to a further catastrophic split in Northumberland Conservatives?

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Ian Levy MP has issued a news article, printed in the News Post Leader stating that Blyth Valley will exist after the Boundary Commission’ s...
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