#BenHouchen🦀
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

Yet another of Houchen's fake business schemes has bitten the dust.

This one is the Tees Valley Business Board.

The chair of the TVBB, Siobhan McArdle (aka the invisible women), is due to attend the TVCA Cabinet next Friday

She won't

northeastbylines.co.uk/business/tee...
Tees Business Board falls to government axe
Government funding for business boards, successors to LEPs, has been cut, with Tees Valley seeing immediate effects
northeastbylines.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀fans

Anybody fancy a #Teesside local history thread?

Okay, let's go.

It was bitterly cold first thing this morning, but I visited Billingham Beck Valley and took some pics, starting at the path leading from St Columba's Avenue.

The beck is in spate
January 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

I was at a meeting on Friday 28 March, at which Tees Valley Mayor called myself and some of my friends idiots.

Here's the full story of that meeting, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk, with additional research by James Waterson

northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
Ben Houchen’s big week ends in farce: who knew?
STDC’s meeting collapsed, Houchen fought public scrutiny, and Teesside Airport drained funds - accountability faced resistance
northeastbylines.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀fans

You'll recall that Ben Houchen's TVCA response to the Tees Valley Review paid lip service to public scrutiny.

An example of this is it's refusal to answer questions submitted to the TVCA 'Overview and Scrutiny Committee' the very body which is responsible for this.

A thread:
February 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀 fans

What's the worst thing about Houchen.

Is it that he's a bare-faced liar?

Or that he's as dumb as a rock?

In fact, it's both.

Let me explain why, in this thread:
February 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀fans

Want to hear another blatant Houchen lie?

In July 2023 he told a TVCA committee that Teesworks would be almost full within 18 months.

Not one company has signed up since he said that 18 months ago

He was lying then and he's lying now 🧵

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Teesworks will be almost full within 18 months - Houchen
Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen made the claim while under questioning by a scrutiny committee.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hi🦀#BenHouchen🦀fans

Here's my latest North East Bylines piece - a bio of #BentBen's arch-crony Simon Clarke

2️⃣3️⃣8️⃣ days since #BrexitSlug Michael Gove announced the #TeessideFreeport corruption review

northeastbylines.co.uk/simon-clarke...
Simon Clarke is coming for your human rights
Simon Clarke MP, Tory hardliner, voted against the Rwanda Bill. Ray Casey looks at his stance on human rights
northeastbylines.co.uk
January 19, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀fans

How about a quick thread on how #Teesside local authorities throw our cash at private developer Jomast?

Okay, lets go....

First of all, former Middlesbrough mayor Andy 'Clown Car' Preston threw £1.4m at Jomast to refurbish Church House

www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teessid...
Private developer questioned on Middlesbrough tower block work
Labour Councillor Lewis Young clarified that he is 'not against joint ventures' but said it’s 'galling' that 'private companies don’t get involved until council gets involved'
www.gazettelive.co.uk
January 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

Would you like to read part 2 of Ben's #Teesworks fiasco?

Here it is, courtesy of myself, James Waterson and North East Bylines

#Teesside

northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
Teesworks: the largest brownfield site in Europe? – Part 2
In Part 2, an analysis of the key role played by Joint Venture partners Chris Musgrave and Martin Corney in the acquisition of land at Teesworks.
northeastbylines.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀 fans

If you read the @nebylines.bsky.social article on the Teesside Airport, I also recommend @leighsus.bsky.social take on his Teesside Lead blog:

#Teesside #TeessideAirport

teesside.thelead.uk
The Teesside Lead | Substack
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teesside.thelead.uk
December 29, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

So here's @leighsus.bsky.social reporting on Ben Houchen's latest rip-off of struggling Teessiders:

A £207K pay off for Julie Gilhespie, the worst performing so-called public servant that the Tees Valley has ever seen.

A thread

teesside.thelead.uk/p/tvca-chief...
TVCA chief executive given £200,000 redundancy package
PLUS: “Mayor’s Question Time” to begin
teesside.thelead.uk
March 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans.

so is Ben Houchen a fascist rabble-rouser?

He is, and I'll prove it:

A thread in 2 parts:

First off all, Houchen's ongoing racist dog-whistling over so-called '2 Tier policing' since the Farage riots in Middlesbrough last summer

northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
The August riot in Middlesbrough – is the town recovering?
Middlesbrough’s race riot on 4 Aug 2024 left scars, but some now try to erase it. Six months on, the fight for truth and justice continues
northeastbylines.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

So, remember a year ago when Ben Houchen lied and said that he was going to spend £40 million on South Bank railway station?

A quick thread....

www.linkedin.com/posts/benhou...
March 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'm going to be adding more 🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀content on here.

He hasn't gone away, you know😂

#TeessideResistance #TruthOnTeesside #UTB
November 13, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Hi everyone. 🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀 and his joint venture cronies have set up a private electricity network in Teesside.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

Read more here:

#Teesworks #TeessideFreeport

northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
Teesside’s new private wire network raises more questions than answers
A closer look at Teesworks announcement to develop a new private wire network
northeastbylines.co.uk
October 20, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen fans

How it started....
April 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀fans

I've written an article for North East Bylines, debunking Ben Houchen's claims about creating thousands of jobs in the Tees Valley over the past 7 years

#Teesside #TeessideFreeport #Teesworks

northeastbylines.co.uk/business/eco...
Can the Teesside media bust the Ben Houchen jobs myth?
What is really going on with jobs on Teesside? A proper look at the statistics
northeastbylines.co.uk
August 23, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

A special message to Ben from the Teesside Resistance:😂
April 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 and music fans

Going to any music festivals this year?

Well Ben's team certainly are!

He's just spent £19K of your money sending 2 TVCA staffers to the 'South by South West' music festival in Texas.

I wonder who the lucky people were?😉

Reporting by @leighjones.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
HI🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

So Ben is throwing hundreds of thousands of pounds of your money at the serially incompetent Siobhan McArdle, who drove the South Tees NHS Trust into the ground

Please read every word of this from @teesvalleymonitor.bsky.social

www.teesvalleymonitor.com/teesside-fre...
Teesside Freeport Welcomes Its First Freeloader
TVCA gives lucrative contract to Chair of Tees Valley Business Board, Siobhan McArdle. Tees Valley Business Board gives lucrative contract to McArdle's friend.
www.teesvalleymonitor.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀 fans

I've written about the night of the plastic knives at the Tees Valley Combined authority.

You can read about it here courtesy of @nebylines.bsky.social

#Teesside #TeessideResistance #TruthOnTeesside

northeastbylines.co.uk/business/eco...
Captain Houchen’s faithful lieutenant makes for the lifeboat: deckchairs being re-arranged
A few questions at TVCA and Teesworks
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

Teesside Royal Visit latest:

Irony overload as billionaire kleptocrat 'King' Charles visits scrap metal dealers Chris Musgrave and Martin Corney at Teesside Freeport

#Teesside #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022...
Prince Charles given €3m in cash in bags by Qatari politician, according to report
Money was passed immediately to one of the prince’s charities, says Clarence House
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

How it started....

www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
www.itv.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Hi🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans

So, metro mayors such as Andy Burnham are finally getting to grips with fixing Maggie Thatcher's disastrous 1986 bus deregulation.

All except one, that is.

Yes, you guessed it.

Katie Weston writes for @northeastbylines.co.uk

northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
Ben Houchen’s refusal to act: how bus privatisation leaves communities behind
The Clarences finally has a bus to its own town, but with just one off-peak service, residents remain cut off from real opportunity
northeastbylines.co.uk
March 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM