South-East Northumberland Cinema Overload, Who will blink first?

Obsessive social media users may have noticed that this year's prize for the ugliest new build in the UK is leaning fairly and squarely towards Glen Sanderson’ the Tory Leader of Northumberland County Council’s ‘cinema and conservative culture centre smack bang in the middle of the Counties largest town, Blyth.

It featured in a recent article in the SUN newspaper blaming Labour for the state of the Town, missing out the fact that the decision making at County Hall has been orchestrated by the Tories since 2017 with the SUN backing a shift to REFORM whose recent articles on social media seem to lean towards a liking for the ‘brick cree’ as its becoming referred to yet Blyth residents appear to abhor its existence.

But today we need to shift the argument away from politics towards the poorly managed business model being chosen to be delivered to South East Northumberlands residents by Tories at County Hall.

Cinemas are in decline worldwide. This decline is attributed to several factors, including the rise of streaming services, economic challenges, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet even after this decline was well and truly documented Northumberland Tories chose the option to build two new cinemas in addition to the well established Vue cinema in Cramlington, one in Blyth and one in Ashington.

It's the economic challenge which interests us at SEN as the cinema running costs will fall fairly and squarely onto the very tightly squeezed (through the Tories massive borrowing costs) finances, as your Council Tax will be exposed to the cost of these new cinemas if they can’t wipe their nose, these are costs which should not sit on your shoulders.

The competition is immense in the cinema world and pressure from entertainment facilities across the Tyne and Wear conurbation have just opened up to easy access to SEN residents with the reopening of the Northumberland Line to passenger transport.

Residents need to keep up the pressure on South East Northumberland’s new County Councillors to ensure the costs of these facilities don’t sit as a burden on your household bill for years to come as at least one of these sites will be in financial trouble once the novelty of a new cinema in your Town has worn off.

Labour, creating the best climate and opportunities for young people to get a career for life since 1965.

 

Immigration?
Slowing mass immigration, the wish of the Labour Party in office to  appease those whipped up by ultra right wing populism, the mainstream press and social media.

The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill creates a framework of new, enhanced powers and offences to improve UK border security and to strengthen the asylum and immigration system.

The fallout from this piece of legislation is enormous with all sorts of businesses who use cheaper workers from abroad realising suddenly that the ‘gravy train’ has crashed into the buffers and will run no more.

The only way out for them is to enhance pay and train UK residents. The life chances for young people starting out on their chosen careers is enormous.

This new legislation raises great opportunities for younger people from across the social divide to gain access to training needed to fill the vacancies made available through Labour’s growth program and the loss of trade to gangmasters and agents, who in the care industry bring in 40,000 more immigrants on work visas than jobs available in the marketplace each and every year.

Keeping on the subject of care a homeowner sits high up the list of rich people from the north of England on the back of profits from granny farming,the list sits below.

Other industries have yet to publish their needed figures and the race for NET-ZERO will bring a wealth of young talent into this ever growing industry.

Some areas of long term job security have published their figures hoping to gain space in further education facilities before others get up and running, The Construction Industry has stated that it requires 25,000 bricklayers, 3,000 plumbers, 4,000 plasterers, 10,000 joiner/carpenters and 3,000 electricians, these jobs for young people will last them their whole life. As homes and buildings are constructed they then need maintenance and servicing by the same crafts persons.

The NHS already has its training nailed in but will now face open competition for young people as the range of jobs on offer to young people expands through the Government's current growth plans, new methods of attracting young people into the NHS must be rapidly rolled out but the NHS could profit from the change brought forward from hacking back on immigration by offering the care industry the chance to train for them as both businesses need similar strictly monitored skill sets.

In the world of agriculture still reeling from the realisation that it must now pay unto Caesar and change to increase both supply and profit as the Government continues to pour £millions into farmers pockets through subsidies, that cheap labour is no more and they must now compete to attract workers in to help them reap their harvest. Checks on the workforce is now an element of DWP work and the crime agencies who between them will ensure gang exploitation is driven out of farming and modern slavery disappears from the country scene.

But back to opportunity, In 1959, Harold Macmillan, then Prime Minister, used the phrase "You've never had it so good" to address the general public and highlight the period of prosperity the UK was experiencing but it was under the Harold Wilson Labour Government in 1965 which saw the maximum number of young people enter training to take up careers which would last their whole life. Lets hope our current youngsters can see the wood from the trees and grasp the opportunities this Labour Government is creating for them.

Notes: North’s Rich List

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/25165578.richest-people-north-revealed-sunday-times-rich-list/#:~:text=The%20North's%20top%2010%20also,now%20worth%20%C2%A3869%20million.

https://www.citb.co.uk/courses-and-qualifications/citb-apprenticeships/

https://www.ecitb.org.uk/career-pathways/ecitb-engineering-construction-apprenticeships/

https://www.lantra.co.uk/careers

https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/FindYourCareer

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/border-security-asylum-and-immigration-bill-2025    This link included risk assessments