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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I thought that people went to Norwich for the filming of 'Sale of the Century' with Nicholas Parsons. But I must have missed a news bulletin😱

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hi to all fans of Ben Houchen's tinpot Teesside Airport The latest CAA stats for July show that passenger numbers are down 9% on last year On 11 Sept, Houchen claimed that Malaga numbers were up 25% on 2025, but they're actually down by 11% I don't know who to believe: Houchen or actual stats

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Property developers want to carve up the countryside around Darlington, with 4,500 houses sprawling across a car-centric dystopia known as Skerningham Garden Village. They'll be connected by a road known as DNLR. Look at this map of the proposed mayhem, then contact teesvalley-ca.gov.uk to object

Map of proposed Skerningham Garden Village and DNLR

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Despite a constant stream of propaganda from Ben Houchen regarding the hiring of up to 4,000 employees at the NZT site in Teesworks, employment in South Teesside actually fell in August 2026, and is back down to the same level that it was in May 2023. Data provided by the ONS, 15 Sept 2026

Employment levels in South Teesside from May 2023 to August 2026 provided by the Office for National Statistics

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hi Kit Andy Preston has been all over right wing media over the past weeks ago, opining about "coddling criminals" and all of that short-sharp-shock nonsense. For example, here's a screenshot of his article for Spiked on 30 August:

Andy Preston article for Spiked, opining about "coddling criminals"

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ben Houchen Teesworks jobs special: How it started

Ben Houchen and Jacob Young, Love Hearts photo op at Seah Wind

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It's possible Here's a map of landfills and watercourses south of the river Tees. The sludge that was dredged from South Bank Quay in 2022 was dumped in the Metals Recovery Area. Half of it was then moved to Long Acres in 2024 So, I'm concerned about the possibility of PCBs leaching into the river

Map of landfill sites south of the river Tees

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Ben Houchen's cronies buying electricity substations at 55p a go? Yep, you heard that right. Teesworks is the gift that keeps on giving

Extract from Private Eye magazine dated 25 July regarding cronyism at Teesworks involving Ben Houchen

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hi🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans You've seen Ben bragging about the new flights to Malaga from Teesside Airport Cos he's spent a gazillion quid of your money advertising them. But how many people are really flying from there? Forget the hype - here are the stats, fresh from the CAA Numbers are 10% down

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Then, in both 2021 and 2024, Ben Houchen campaigned for Tees Valley Mayor on his promise to bring an Electric Arc Furnace to Teesside. No ifs, no buts, no maybes. But he knew that it was never going to happen. Houchen is just a cruel, cynical populist who will say ANYTHING to get elected

Ben Houching lying about bringing steel making to Teesside

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen 🦀 So while Houchen continues to cynically exploit the plight of Scunthorpe steelworkers for political gain, let's have a look closer to home in Teesside A short thread: Firstly it was Houchen's Tories who shut down Redcar steelworks in 2015 They can't blame anyone else for that

The destruction of Redcar Blast Furnace by the Tories in 2015

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

....and then, when Ben Houchen has dropped Teessiders in the clart yet again, who is the knight in shining armour who is coming to save us? Drop it kidda, your're not going to fool anybody anymore

The usual disingenuous bollocks from Ben Houchen

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Friendly reminder that Sky News, BBC news and the rest of them are doing their level best to crown Ben Houchen as the next Tory leader after they sack Kemi Badenoch. They want Houchen to be Britain Trump in 2028. The liar isn't suitable for high office, and we can't let this happen

Houchen lies about Teesside Airport profits

Houchen lies about bringing steel making back to Teesside

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is a reminder of Houchen's boast during his 2017, 2021 and 2024 election campaigns: "I'll bring steel making back to Teesside" Yep, he lied about that 3 times. In fact he's now doing the exact opposite - working with Donald Trump to close down the last of Teesside's steel industry

Ben Houchen lying about bringing steel making back to Teesside

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans A special message to Ben from the Teesside Resistance:😂

A best value notice to Ben Houchen from your favourite idiots - the Teesside Resistance

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hi 🦀 #BenHouchen🦀 fans Well, it's time for the bluster to stop. Ben Houchen's TVCA has been served with a Best Value Notice by Downing Street, and we'll finally get to know what the idiots at Teesside Airport have been up to. What's that you say, Father Ted?....

Ben Houchen's TVCA to be served with Best Value Notice on Thursday 3 April

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

That's correct, Jo Starmer and Reeves have ditched their principles in a dash for growth that they won't even achieve. Freeport criminality? No problem Cosy up to the fossil fuel lobby? You got it Slash benefits for the sick and disabled in a fake attempt to balance the books? They're on it

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hi Tori Just FYI, I was at that meeting, in which Ben Houchen called me an idiot to my face. I don't have a right to reply. None of us do. Houchen has been doing this to his own constituents for 8 years, insulting them, then blocking them on socials when they try to fight back Unfit for office

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you are in the Darlington area today, please come down to the rally at the Town Hall in Feethams to protest against the cuts. The rally will last from 12:00pm until 2:00pm

Protest against Labour's Tory austerity cuts to disability benefits at Darlington on 26 March 2025

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

'Hi it's Ray on the line. Long time listener, first time caller. I'd like to ask why the mayor keeps pouring our cash down the drain with his tinpot Teesside airport' 'Ok, we'll just take a quick commercial break, then the news, then here's Tom with the weather. uh, oh, time's up....😂

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

So I got the day of the protest wrong, then I got the time wrong Apart from that, it's all going well, right?😂 So that's WEDNESDAY 26th March Don't turn up at 2pm - that will be no good☹️ The protest will be ending at 2pm cos it starts at 12pm😀 And it's in Darlington. I know where that is

Cut the rich, not the crips - wealth tax now - #CutsKill

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Graffiti on the Gazette building in Middlesbrough, suggesting that this Tory rag is nothing but bog roll. That's harsh (No it isn't - Ed)😂

Toilet roll graffiti on the Gazette building in Middlesbrough

Close up on graffiti on the Gazette building in Middlesbrough

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It's pure iron, Liz, so you'd think it would be valuable to Musgrave and Corney But they are going to have to chisel it out piece by piece. Painstaking and expensive work, which will nullify the cash gained from selling the iron. If it was financially viable, they'd have cleaned it out in 2022👍

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Did Story Contracting repair the World War 2 damage to the polychrome-tiled band above the windows in the main building at Middlesbrough railway station? No, that damage occurred in 1942, and nothing has ever been done about it

Tiled frieze, main building, Middlesbrough railway station

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Did Story Contracting cause even more damage to the roof of the main station building at Middlesbrough railway station? By drilling even more holes in the stonework of a Grade II listed building? Yes they did

Wall damage at Middlesbrough railway station

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Did Story Contracting repair this dangerous electrical wiring above Platform 1 at Middlesbrough Railway station? No, this is a photo of this wiring taken today, Monday 3 March 2025

Electrical wiring, Platform 1, Middlesbrough railway station

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Did Story Contracting repair the glazing panels in the canopies at Middlesbrough Railway station? No, half of them are still wide open

Unglazed platform canopies at Middlesbrough railway station

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

But the Government, quite rightly, is not going to throw away another £15m of our cash on contracts that will never be delivered But what of the £35m that has been wasted on Middlesbrough station so far? Did Story Contracting repair the Zetland Road entrance? No, it's been abandoned for 5 years

Zetland Road entrance to Middlesbrough railway station

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

So, to qualify as English ,you would need to be able to trace your ancestry back to, say, just before the arrival of the first Windrush ships and Asian workers to fill labour shortages in the 1950s I THINK that I can work out what she's getting at here😂

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

In short, never listen to a word that Ben Houchen says. He is a liar, a fool and a charlatan

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Good morning (1) A promise to build a new North Tees Hospital, which Ben Houchen simply had no power to build, and was never going to happen (2) A promise to bring steel making back to Teesside, based on a fag-packed drawing from a Chinese firm I'm starting to think that this man can't be trusted

This man's pants are on fire at all times

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

You remember Chris Musgrave's son Joe, don't you? Yes, that was Joe posing outside Acklam Car Sales in Middlesbrough with his brand new £400,000 Rolls Royce Cullinan. Joe is going okay for himself

Joe Musgrave and his Rolls Royce Cullinan

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Ben told the TVCA that 6 companies had signed up but could only name 3 companies that actually had. We asked our resident statistician Count von Count to comment on the numbers: 'Of the 6 firms named by Ben, only 3 exist, so each company only 50% exists. Job sharing with ghosts is difficult'

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

In the same LinkedIn post about the hospital that Ben Houchen would never build, he also said that he'd brought steelmaking back to Teesside. This charlatan made a promise about an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) that he knew he'd never be able to keep. If he had that extra £2bn he could build 4 EAFs

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

So a 'Sting Jet' is when a pretentious slave-owning lute-playing fake green campaigner meets up with a weapons-grade poppy-fascist bell-end on Concorde and pours champagne for him. Hope this helps

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Matt Vickers'No3️⃣ fail is his fake love of football. He's England's number one fan. Except, that is, when the players wear shirts containing a bit of embroidery that he doesn't like, in which case culture warrior Matt thinks that England are 'woke'

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Matt Vickers' No2️⃣fail is his constant reminders to his constituents about his fake love of parmos by wearing socks emblazoned with it. These tragic, pathetic stunts led to his derisive nickname #ParmoSocks

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Matt's No1️⃣fail is his antics regarding Teesside's famous delicacy the 'Parmo' Matt courts his voters by pretending to be obsessed with the Parmo, including a publicity stunt to include it on the House Of Commons menu, Meanwhile, back home in Stockton, 13000 children live below the poverty line

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

So, in summary, Ben Houchen is lying about the Electric Arc Furnace Just as he's lied about 20,000 jobs for Teesworks He only 'saved' Teesside Airport so that he could throw £150m at his cronies He's put a Class A drug dealer, who is still wearing a tag, in charge of security at Teesside Freeport

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

But the Wesley Chapel in Hartlepool is a Grade II listed building. The quality of Jomast's brick repairs at the rear of the building is atrocious. This shoddy work doesn't make the grade, and it will need to be replaced. This isn't good use of £1.25m of public money

Repairs to brickwork at the rear of the Wesley Chapel, Hartlepool

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Jomast is taking £1.25m of our money to turn Hartlepool's Wesley Chapel into a luxury boutique hotel, badly needed in one of the poorest towns in the UK

The Wesley Chapel in Hartlepool is being converted into a boutique hotel

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

#BenHouchen needs all the help he can get now, including that tower of strength Jacob 'Lemon Top' Young #Teesside #Teesworks

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

At Billingham Bottoms I encountered this random horse, who tried to eat my phone

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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The footpath between Norton and Billingham has become impassable in January, as intended. So a lengthy detour is needed via the Billingham by-pass. At Billingham Bottoms, the flood plain can be seen in full effect. That's how it got its name, of course

Flooded path between Norton and Billingham

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