Councillor Richardson ‘shocked’ that Northumberland County Council appears on Daily Mirror ‘List of Shame’

 

Councillor Margaret Richardson who represents Cowpen Ward in the town of Blyth, Northumberland as a County Councillor and is the current Mayor of the Town, Northumberland’s largest, was shocked to find the conservative led Northumberland County Council appearing on the daily mirror ‘list of shame’ of councils who hadn’t bothered to pay the Government’s £150 rebate to help offset a small proportion of their ‘Cost of Living Crisis’.

She said:”This revelation by the Daily Mirror has come as a complete shock to me, as most people in the county know who are interested in local government, the current Tory administration at County Hall do not share information with opposition councillors, run a very secretive one party cabinet and play all their cards close to their chests, but as a Councillor I expected that officers of the Council would have begun the process automatically and that families in need would have already received this help however little”.

“I find it shameful that at a time when the Government can find cash to supply the needs and wants of business people who offshore their profits instead of paying tax in the UK that demands from the Government haven’t been fully impressed on councils run by their own party”. 

“Also with the major changes to benefits hitting families in less well off areas from next Monday, 9th May and pensioners finding tax on their second pensions if they have one, is being forced up to cut down the level of rise on the State Pension to next to nothing the Council should have been much more supportive and got their fingers out and paid the rebate as a matter of urgency”.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/six-councils-havent-paid-150-26801032