For the last six weeks I and my fellow Lib Dems can have been found standing outside libraries and shivering in water-sodden streets trying to bring news of the New Strategic Direction in all its horror to as many people in Suffolk as possible.
After all, the conservative administration has done very little in that direction, as you can see if you click the following link: Consultation – what consultation?
As a Suffolk resident wrote to me:
We certainly have not been consulted in any shape or form by SCC re the New Strategic Direction. Surely, they should have started by a direct letter to everyone rather than sandwich boards in the shopping precinct!
Our own consultation was not without incident: tragically I got nipped on the leg by an ill-tempered dog in Yoxford, only last week, while delivering leaflets with a broken foot in heavy rain. I hope he felt guilty. But the post MUST get through…
Have you got our leaflet yet? Have you signed our petition?
We are trying to get as many signatures to the petition as possible to deliver to the Administration at the next full council day, 2 December. If you have received one, try and collect as many signatures from Suffolk residents as possible – relatives, friends, neighbours, colleagues. It doesn’t matter about age or background. These changes will affect us all.
If we haven’t managed to reach you, you can sign it online http://savesuffolkservices.blogspot.com/
or if you want to download it to collect further paper signatures: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/56654857/Save-Suffolk-Services-petition
Just remember to return it by the 26th November.