Who will work with Peter Hillman at ONE North East ???

So now we have it - all bar an ineffective Tony Reid has been dropped by the party.
The reasons they are manifestly different.

Most have been dropped because they simply would not listen to the Labour Party.
The party in Northumberland that is. The one had supported their re-election but did not support closures of fire stations, care homes, schools.

Why should a ward who have not been listened to or involved in the decisions at County Hall support or listen to the those responsible for forcing onto an unwilling population a 'hung' single council.
At a stroke they have taken 'local' out of local government.

The leader, the architect of the totalitarian approach to democracy has now run to hide in ONE north east - primarily we hear, to help with the transition to a single unitary.
Who will work with him - the districts and those likely to win power despise him and all he stands for?-not likely.
We hope his tenure there is as short and ignominious as the one he has now. He is a disaster waiting to happen - but for the region now.

And who appointed him? We see the dead hands of Alan Clarke and Mr Henderson in all this - the 'old boys network' gone beserk.

We understand that both South East Northumberland Councils will walk out of any meeting with him involved - we also hear that the other districts will do the same now.