A motion tabled at Cramlington Town Council on 6 Nov will finally give two Conservative councillors from the Town a chance to ‘speak up for the South East’

MOTION CHALLENGES CONDEMS TO ‘BACK SOUTH EAST’

Rural Tories are attacking South East investment yet Cramlington Tory councillors stay silent – Now’s their chance to find their voices and back the South East

A motion tabled at Cramlington Town Council on 6 Nov will finally give two Conservative councillors from the Town a chance to ‘speak up for the South East’. Labour group leader on the town council Allan Hepple has pointed to repeated failures by Tory Councillors Wayne Daley and Barry Flux to stand up for the South East of Northumberland after a string of attacks on the area led by Conservative group leader Peter Jackson and other leading Tories.

Councillor Hepple has pointed to the allegations that Labour is ‘favouring’ the South East at the expense of rural Northumberland and Tory proposals to split the South East from the rest of Northumberland, creating ‘urban and rural council’s’. He says the motion tabled at the town council will give Councillors Daley and Flux a chance ‘to speak up for the South East against unwarranted attacks by rural Tories like MP Guy Opperman and North Northumberland Tory hopeful Anne Marie Trevelyan.

Labour’s Allan Hepple said

“It seems that Councillors Daley and Flux are quick to attack Labour for not doing enough in the South East yet their Tory party colleagues seem to think Labour’s doing too much. They’ve been silent when Tories have lined up to talk the South East down and they’ve been silent when it comes to supporting projects like the Labour/NHS partnerships in Cramlington, hundreds of new council houses and affordable homes, tackling the scandalous 35,000 pot hole backlog and a series of projects which will see hundreds of jobs created. This is their chance to back the South East against their colleagues in the rural areas who seem to delight in setting community against community. Labour will continue to speak up for Northumberland and the South East in particular. It’s a shame that the Tories can’t seem to do the same”.