Three Time Losers Still trying to catch up with Labour.

 

Following a massive campaign of fibs and more lies than a cheap watch from Northumberland Conservatives during 2013 who were trying to loosen their LibDem partners from office regarding the number of potholes on our roads the Tories still lost that election and Labour formed a mixed administration which was rained with even more fibs and lies as they were not in partnership with Northumberland Conservatives.

During Labour’s first year in office they had a complete highways condition survey undertaken and their man in charge of Local Services Ian Swithenbank CBE bought in a number of pieces of kit to tackle the perceived problem.

By June 2014 the Councils terrific workforce had driven the potholes into oblivion using jetpatchers and Paviour Machines. A completely different methodology than that practiced previously. They held that positivity until 2017 when the Tories took over and failures to fix potholes while farm entrances were beautified became the current Council Leader Glen Sanderson’s norm when he was the Portfolio holder for Local Services.

His failures became even more rampant and he went into print in 2020 to say he was tackling the then gigantic backlog.

In 2021 his team went back to the press to say they trialling new methods of dealing with the by then colossal backlog. Their trial failed.

2022 brought similar news stories as the failures reached epidemic proportions but the farm gates continued to be the glamour projects concentrated on by the Tories.

We're into another year and another story about purchasing new machines to tackle what is now a monstrous gargantuan backlog with huge amounts of yellow paint surrounding potholes right across Northumberland. They have now identified a goodly number of the potholes but the Government ‘fixmystreet.com’ brings more each and every day.

Starmer’s ‘fast track’ planning changes should help revive the UK fishing industry and save our coastline

Sir Keir Starmer is tipped to release his well announced planning changes this month.

Those changes will ease the huge number of energy infrastructure projects in waiting through the current mire of local planning and wider government linked planning law.

With the nation heading towards population growth from all sources pushing up towards 80,000,000 in a relatively short timescale the serious position of housing that number of people is also crucial to his planning change programme with shoreline erosion and rising sea levels sitting in the background damaging easy build coastal sites as an basic first hit for developers and Councils seeking sites to fulfill Starmers ambitious plans for growth and jobs, with thousands of building apprenticeships being created to fulfil his plans changing the UK from a service centred nation to one filled with artisans and highly skilled craft persons.

His changes are also rumoured to cover not only land based wind and nuclear energy sites but inshore solar and wave arrays.

These inshore energy structures placed strategically can be designed to not only be functional in the power production sense but can become the saviour of inshore fish stocks and used to build up onshore sand deposits to stop many of our wonderful towns disappearing into the briny as sea levels rise.

Using Newbiggin by the Sea’s groin as an example that can be replicated through energy investment all around our shores. In two decades the groin has trapped hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on the shoreline, saving this wonderful small town from falling into the sea.

The Newbiggin groin does not appear to have developed being home to cleansing shellfish such as oysters which would freshen the water daily but more modern multi functional models can incorporate the best of all worlds, making the UK both prime energy, shellfish and fish exporters whilst helping to feed our huge growing population. Leaving onshore solar sites to either grow food or build homes on.

The nearby energy centric Town of Blyth has been rocked by the release of the doomsday scenario in the press showing much of it under water and its coastal neighbour Cambois disappearing altogether. Due to it housing the UK infrastructure for import and export of energy internationally its the prime area to begin inshore coastal multi use reef design, build and fit and with its fantastic port facility can also house an active inshore fishing fleet creating jobs galore across all of the disciplines needed to save our coastline, feed the nation, support Europes energy needs and bring high tech jobs needed to improve all aspects of living well and surviving the devil of global warming.

Come up with the planning goods Keir and help us all.