Catching the Tide or is it the Conservatives?

 Were ever so grateful to local anglers from the pans who took this wonderful shot of a ship lying off our coast.

It appears to be carrying the new Conservative Ian Levy Marketplace on its overflowing decks but looking at the photo, just like County Hall in Morpeth the ‘Units’ as posh Tories are calling them may require a ‘lick of paint’.

The Conservatives plans for the coastal town of Blyth appear to be based on a questionable (by the Parliamentary cross party Public Accounts Committee) doling out of £25M grants to towns linked to new incumbent MP’s into Parliament during the 2019 General Election, Ian Levy being one of those!

The spend we suspect will be steered through the dodgy Advance Northumberland seems to be in two parts designed to lower the expectations of residents into what is forecast to arrive from Conservatism.

1) a scheme to allow short term car parking in Bowes Street in the Town which the local town council offered to pay for two years ago but were knocked back by the Tories.

2) the scheme that their supporters have been running out for over a year on social media, the dumping of old shipping containers on the Market Place to create the Conservative Car Boot Sale complete with speakers playing the barking of scrapyard dogs while you enjoy your perusal of the junk on offer.

This project is specially designed to bring Blyth in line with the two ‘Whole’ Towns adjoining them geographically, Bedlington and Ashington. As the Conservatives would hate those areas to think Blyth people have gained some sort of advantage over them for bothering to vote in a Tory MP.

The Tories have now been in charge of your Council for the last three and a half years and have achieved for Blyth Valley exactly what they have achieved for the County as a whole, an increase in poverty, along with a magnanimous offer of a £47m cut to ensure we suffer more job losses, decline and misery to the level of them being accused of corruption by top Council Officers.

Spending £100m of rural roads and £80m on a ‘Lick of Paint’ on Morpeth County Hall with three nowts for Ashington, Bedlington and Blyth as the funding they are crowing about isn't in the pockets of Advance Northumberland yet; Parliament whether they run it or not may stop it in its tracks.