Oh! lifes so simple, all Jags and Wardrobes until the officers began fighting back?

Ten days ago rumours began to abound in our office that even after the great shakeup at the expensive to keep Morpeth County Hall things were still not moving forward and that great battles were going on in the civil war within Northumberland Conservatives with the bullying of staff at an all time high as the blue Knights charged forward only to be hacked down by the dogs of war now in charge at Morpeth.

Unfortunately for the dogs they have very little etiquette and most have a history of not being nice even to members of their own team. So toning down the similies a little ‘the scrum is a nasty place to be’.

Several months ago the nastiness of the current crop of right -wingers at County Hall was brought out into the open in leaked emails which exposed the working conditions of staff and the misdemeanours and horror stories surrounding the Councils company ADVANCE Northumberland.

Some of the rumours a list of which looked like the cover of a Fleetwood Mac album sleeve were clarified and personified through a statement recorded by the local democracy reporter for the area who quoted the Chief Executive of Northumberland County Council and single shareholder representative for the Council of ADVANCE Northumberland, at the Councils Audit Committee, Mrs Dajit Lally said “As shareholder representative. I have expressed some fairly serious concerns about the issues surrounding ADVANCE Northumberland currently. I have put into the work programme a report, likely to come in February, about a number of those issues, so it was just to give the committee assurance that we are looking at these issues and reporting on them.”

So the fightback on behalf of seriously bullied officers has begun against the alleged corrupt Tory regime and its arms length company and our rumour miller on the ground thought that on hearing this statement Councillor Nick Oliver looked as if he was going to be sick!

But back to the tale: Councillor Richard Wearmouth is the Chairman of ADVANCE Northumberland and he thinks he is above all when it comes to politics. He is under immense pressure following this revolt by officers and looking at the Fleetwood Mac list we would like to know if its the ‘Chain’ of that office or the ‘Dreams’ of how to avoid the legal proceedings expected to come following release of Mrs Lally’s report but we have heard he is going to ‘Go my own way’ and have a run at becoming the Mayor of North Tyneside on behalf of the Tories at the May election and complete with Jag and Wardrobe will then live happily ever after near the banks of the Tyne.

Even with the poor reputations held by both Tynemouth and North Tyneside Tories they wouldn’t want to consider him as their candidate unless it's already cut and dried or is it just him saying ‘I’m never going back again’ once the lawyers get on his tail?