Bill and Peter in negotiations with the Liberals ?

Its also why Bill and Peter have been in negotiations with the Liberals on a bid for joint local governance – not even your executive knew about that now did they Billy?

This week saw unedifying spectacle of a lone County Council Deputy Leader presenting, or rather sending off his and Bill 'The Bullet' Brooks’s vision of what a brand new Council fro Northumberland would look like.

Forget that, in their world new means a council the same size as the County run with the same councilors by the same leadership, elected under the same rules.

It is a vision that does not have any support in Northumberland sorry stakeholder support such as Sage from Newcastle and the NECC from Durham is evident, only just.

We also saw this week leaders from all 6 Districts united in their vision and bid for a whole new system of governance in Northumberland, lead the ‘Peoples Choice’ bid away to London, to be met by all four MPs who support the two council bid.

It is now up to Government to announce which bids get through the first tests in March before the Ministers take it up to the final decision in July.

But we didn’t have to leave it to the Government did we.

All 7 Councils support the two council bid so the County Council could have put just the one bid forward…..but it doesn’t work like that does it?

With The Bullet and Peter The Great still in awe of their Senior Officers they will do what the officers tell them to do.

Just a couple of things to come over the desk.

We understand now the reason for the gap in expected savings at County.
They plan to install parking charges in South-East Northumberland at £1 an hour.

Its no wonder that businesses and organizations are now backing away from their support at County.

Its also why Bill and Peter have been in negotiations with the Liberals on a bid for joint local governance – not even your executive knew about that now did they Billy?