Labour MP to inherit 3 hole constituency left by Tories.

 

Former MP for Wansbeck who is now the Labour candidate for the brand new Blyth with Ashington constituency Ian Lavery, who is according to the most recent polling data about to win this new consistency with a handsome majority will inherit the nations only political patch famous for its three long term holes, left by the Conservatives than for any improvement being brought about through levelling up.

 The towns of Bedlington, Ashington and Blyth have had to endure the mess brought about by Conservative failures to be even interested in improving the three South East Northumberland towns.

They have left them drift for the last seven years as they squander £ millions on show off projects in areas they promote heavily like Morpeth and Ponteland leaving residents of the new constituency with sites akin to Aleppo in their Town centres.

 The bragging Tories have attempted to mix funding to improve the lot of rich industrialists designed to fill their pockets with public cash with the skimpy spend on Town centres being spread so thinly that local people now know that they are being and have been ignored since May 2017 .

With more being spent on funding lawyers and clearing out officers from the Conservative County Council and when coupled with the narrowing of A class roads to fit in cycle tracks than is being spent to improve the lot for residents.

The Tories seem to be blowing the trumpet of the spend on a new much needed school in Seaton Delaval using an estimated £60m of public funds which sits outside the new constituency of Blyth with Ashington and hailing this as a spending success in Blyth.

 

 The outgoing MP for Blyth who is replaced by his wife as the Tory’s candidate to run against Ian Lavery MP, Ian Levy MP,  is the man who bragged he was bringing 8000 jobs to Blyth.

 Up to press the outgoing MP for Blyth has actually driven down the number of jobs available in Blyth through his acceptance of the closure of the Keel Row shopping centre and the rundown of the remaining retail offer in the Town with Wilko and Argos deserting the high street zone during his time in office. When the catalogue of failures is coupled with the sale of the site which was being used as a catalyst for the expected 8000 jobs by his Tory mates from County Hall the improvements for local people will never arrive if the Tories get back into office.

 

Conservatives to stretch supply lines further than the 7th Cavalry at Little Big Horn

 

As footsoldiers and Conservative party branches begin to feel the strain through the loss of active members and their strategists on the ground feeling completely unable to spread any good news on the street, the Guardian reveals the pressure local conservative branches and the membership of conservative and constitutional clubs are under.

The Guardian report tell us that the Conservative Party has identified up to 200 constituencies as vulnerable and in need of extra support as a defensive strategy going into the general election - a change from the party's previous "80:20" strategy of prioritising defending the party's 80 most marginal seats and seeking to win the most vulnerable 20 target seats from other parties. 

A party source said that in addition to expanding the number of seats needing more resources to defend Conservative majorities, and potentially moving to a "100% defence" strategy, the party is also adding more target seats in Scotland to take advantage of the SNP's falling popularity.

With the fiasco of more and more MP’s and Councillors coming out to inform constituents they are not running again in future this defence plan is looking for a dentist to fit it some new teeth before even the ‘Leaflets of Lies’ are planned and cash found for delivery guys and gals to push them through the doors as volunteers have deserted the party faster than elected politicians from all levels.

In a number of areas particularly in the South we can see Reform volunteers doing more foot soldiering but with the natives waiting to pounce the analogy with the 7th Cavalry and stretched supply lines seems quite apt to describe the mess the Conservatives are in nationally.

Defensive strategy?: sack the strategists Sunak it will save you cash in the long run.

Why is Britain still using Gross Domestic Product to measure success?

 

 During 1976 under the Queen of the Conservatives Margaret Thatcher, the Government agreed to change the UK from a manufacturing nation which required higher investment in its workforce into a one designed to simply look after the residents of the UK by becoming a ‘Service Industry Nation’.

Immediately, the ‘white van man’ was born, filling all on street parking space every night and at weekends officially beginning the deindustrialisation of the UK through whole industry closures, offshoring, job selling and social housing stock giveaways to ensure those who heard her cry like the sirens who used their beautiful voices and songs to enchant sailors and control their fate ‘having the debt of a mortgage over their heads will nail in the change Britain needs’.

Time has moved on and investors now need the cheapened over decades UK labour force to engage once again with manufacturing and the ‘New Tories’ who have failed to offer workers attractive packages to reopen industry are having to resort to attacking the poor and infirm to form those workforces, forget about farmer’s needs to feed our nation on local produce and concentrate on money as Britain did in the 1820’s or so economic history book inform us.

It’s doomed to failure and the British public know it is as the stagflation of those who felt success from the white van world and have cash to leave their children do not want their families to enter the universe of drudgery as offered to workers in the US to become a defining factor in the Britain of today.

 Those same conservative investors in office who are trying to ply the trade of the pre Thatcher 1960’s have proved in the 2020’s that the two tier society, extended over the last 13 years is no longer wanted and a period of catching up through designed change for the better is now required and this week’s local elections have begun to spell out what the sort of change people want and need is no longer supported by the Conservatives in office.

So to end where we began, why is Britain still using Gross Domestic Product to measure success?  Let’s hope the next incumbents of both Government and Local Government can design an alternative which suits our society in a modern UK better!