Fear not gentlemen, the Labour Party is alive and well in Ashington with the town council being Labour through and through and with the son of our leftie MP being a serving member.
The high street was revamped on their authority a few years agoand changed from a pedestrian walkway to a one way thoroughfare with limited time parking introduced. Since then, 24 established businesses have closed, mind you some of them have been replaced by nail shops, telephone shops, bling shops and vape shops. Of course these receive a grant for setting up business, the majority last one year and disappear.

When labour were in control of the County Council they decide that they would build new county council offices in Ashigton and demolished buildings and dug a bloody big hole. That was around 5 years ago, however, they lost the county electionsand the Tories decided that ther was no need for new offices and decreed that they would stay in Morpeth where they had been since 1981. Now, some 5 years down the line, we still have a bloody big hole in the town centre with planning permission having been granted for a cinema complex and shopping mall which nobody seems to want. Meanwhile the town council are at loggerheads with the County Council, which has now lost its overhal majority amidst claims of corruption on a matter which originally concerned part of the Labour County Council, which was dogged by claims of corruption!

You really couldn't make this up and now your know why I am strictly apolitical and have very little time for any of them.