Suffolk’s Library ‘consultation’– and Woodbridge
I have just written to the officers and Portfolio-holder in charge of Suffolk’s libraries to propose that SCC grants an extension for Woodbridge (and potentially many other areas like it) to the 30...
View ArticleTown Council Report April 2011
This is my last council report before the Woodbridge Town elections – and there are a number of very contentious issues to tell you about as Suffolk County Council suffers some form of melt-down with...
View ArticleSCC’s new Leader – where do we go from here?
Most of Suffolk must be as relieved as I was at Monday’s election of Mark Bee as future Leader of Suffolk County Council. Mark, who replaces Jeremy Pembroke, was elected in the first round of the...
View ArticleDemand Responsive Transport – the ‘Limousine’ that lets us down!
Today I’m venting huge rage on behalf of myself and every other person who is finding it hard to get emergency healthcare or go hospital visiting for six of the next eleven days. This is because of...
View ArticleI need to remind Labour party members what socialists actually THOUGHT before...
and who is actually responsible for all these cuts. Since the election there has been the most remarkable degree of amnesia on the subject. Yes, the vindictively targeted cuts of Suffolk’s New...
View Article‘Explore Card’ petition reaches vital target
We’ve DONE it – we’re over the first hurdle and can challenge the Explore card cut! Thanks to the hard work of huge numbers of people, our Explore card petition click here has achieved its first goal,...
View ArticleLocal Election results – a closer look
The Daily Telegraph rang me the other day to ask about the ‘poor showing’ of Suffolk Lib Dems in the recent local elections – and was disconcerted to hear that Woodbridge had actually doubled the...
View ArticleCaring or care-less?
SCC has now decided to sell its care homes ‘as going concerns’ – or so we heard last month. Very much better than the original suggestion of choice which had an indefinable suggestion of ‘prime...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Suffolk Libraries : Suffolk Lib Dem Library policy
In the relatively calm waters of 2013, we are in danger of forgetting quite what threat Suffolk’s libraries were under back in 2010, when Tory-appointed CEO Andrea Hill was endeavouring to institute a...
View ArticleSuffolk Tories: the Milquetoast Manifesto
Snapshot of Suffolk’s County Council 2009-13: Threatened closure of 29 libraries.. the vanishing of the Road Crossing patrols.. loss of the rural evening and Sunday bus services.. closure of Youth...
View Article
