Save Suffolk County Council – Scrap the New Strategic Direction Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/save-suffolk-county-council-scrap-the-new-strategic-direction.html Online petition signatures en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:41 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Mr Thomas Hamburger [Signature #488] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10142795?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Apr 2011 04:10:05 UTC 10142795 Mr Alister Dufton [Signature #487] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10058744?utm_medium=rss The County council has been wasting money for years and has never had to save money until now. If this was a private business it would have gone bankrupt years ago. These cuts have been on the cards for years and the council has done nothing about it because it has relied on free money. If it had been properly run over the years and run like a private business, opportunities to save money would have been identified and actioned,not just a hatchett put to it because of poor management.

]]> Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:17:02 UTC 10058744 Mr Richard Martin [Signature #486] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/10018549?utm_medium=rss Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:49:56 UTC 10018549 Miss Elaine Evans [Signature #485] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9985318?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:45:24 UTC 9985318 Miss Karen Sayer [Signature #484] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9984134?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:49:30 UTC 9984134 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #483] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9936363?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:07:10 UTC 9936363 Juliette Pender [Signature #482] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9936228?utm_medium=rss James starts 6th form at High school in September; He no longer qualifies for free transport on the school bus and Suffolk C C have srapped the student discount travel card. Cost of travel on the school bus for 6th form students is £120 per term which is due to increase. EMA funding has also been scrapped. School is 5+ miles away with no footpaths and very little cycle laneage along the lorry-laden A and B roads. What a fantastic way to encourage students into further education!

]]> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:00:04 UTC 9936228 Mr Paul Whitlow [Signature #481] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9749084?utm_medium=rss These cuts have far more to do with Conservative ideology than the state of the finances. Why not call a County Council election to let us vote on the new strategic direction, which was not disclosed prior to the election.
I do not believe that Councillors should be mandated (commanded) by their constituents, but the mass privatisation of services was not voted for, and the "volunteer or lose the service" ethos is, frankly, unethical.
I didn't vote Con, so would not alter my vote, others might.

]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:29:48 UTC 9749084 Marianne Hedge [Signature #480] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9739490?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:25:40 UTC 9739490 Dr Steve Smedley [Signature #479] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9739265?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:57:11 UTC 9739265 Mr Ian Tickle [Signature #478] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9739120?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:36:53 UTC 9739120 Mr Joe Cassels [Signature #477] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9738843?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:55:22 UTC 9738843 Mr Robert Daines [Signature #476] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9709138?utm_medium=rss These tories are destroying public services,Ask Miss Hill to take a pay cut or kick her out,

What about the people that work for her? If they have to go then so should she and take all the other rotten tories with her

]]> Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:14:41 UTC 9709138 Mr Steve Catchpole [Signature #475] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9693649?utm_medium=rss This is a disgraceful imposition of Conservative ideology upon the people of Suffolk. Those who've introduced and voted for these cuts to our public services have no need of them but they do have need of our votes! Roll on the next County Council election, they've sown the wind and will surely reap the whirlwind.

]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:16:54 UTC 9693649 Mr John Cook [Signature #474] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9692532?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:38:03 UTC 9692532 Ms Susan Randall [Signature #473] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9692504?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:35:21 UTC 9692504 Mrs Lenka Anstead [Signature #472] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9692489?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:33:37 UTC 9692489 mr michael gabbey [Signature #471] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9692477?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:32:43 UTC 9692477 mr jason loane [Signature #470] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9691944?utm_medium=rss andrea hill i can do your job for £5.93 a hr, im ashamed to see u walk into the council offices at 11 30 am wearing a fur coat,designer clothes,and designer shopping bags, and then claim u turned down a 11% pay increase, while people slave away all their lives for that 11%, and then take all thier services away, you need to be reminded you serve the people of suffolk not they serve you, you truley are a arrogant person.

]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:47:30 UTC 9691944 Mrs Susan Kay Hewlett [Signature #469] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9690480?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:55:13 UTC 9690480 Anonymous [Signature #468] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9689561?utm_medium=rss You are aiming for the greenest county status. there will be a massive increase in the amount of rubbish going to landfill as a result of closing tips.
You seem to be closing down all the services which Suffolk has been valued for. Care plans, care homes , libraries, road maintenance whilst the chief executive and greedy councillors continue to reward themselves.

]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:03:50 UTC 9689561 mrs sarah barrett [Signature #467] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9670911?utm_medium=rss Get your priorities right - you as a council have been responsible for wasting a huge amount of public money, but ditching what has always been a really good library service is a complete outrage - when you pay A.H. too much, you employ a children's centre area co-ordinator who lives in Birmingham and you've invested in dodgy portacabins over 30 yrs old in Leiston - just to name but a few examples of poor decision making - I hope you stop the SCC self eggrandising publications too.

]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:59:40 UTC 9670911 Mr Robert Andrew [Signature #466] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9584768?utm_medium=rss Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:11:20 UTC 9584768 Mr David Andrew [Signature #465] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9584736?utm_medium=rss Both my Father and i use the library for the loaning books and the internet service on a regular basis. We both would be unhappy and inconvenienced by any negative changes to the service it provides.

]]> Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:09:15 UTC 9584736 mr robert daines [Signature #464] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9520080?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Feb 2011 04:15:35 UTC 9520080 Anonymous [Signature #463] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9502382?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Feb 2011 04:55:24 UTC 9502382 miss louise calver [Signature #462] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9501686?utm_medium=rss Thu, 3 Feb 2011 03:47:09 UTC 9501686 Miss Anonymous [Signature #461] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9371363?utm_medium=rss Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:54:06 UTC 9371363 Mr Peter Byatt [Signature #460] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9366244?utm_medium=rss Why don't the Suffolk Tories have a real "conversation" with the people of Suffolk - call an early election for Suffolk County Council councillors and see what people really think about their proposals. Telling us that the cuts are necessary is a massive con from the Conservatives...there are workable and fair alternatives.

]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:28:44 UTC 9366244 Mr Anonymous [Signature #459] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9365233?utm_medium=rss Andre Hill must go!

]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:41:38 UTC 9365233 ms margaret grenham [Signature #458] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9340366?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:32:28 UTC 9340366 Mr jonathan clarke [Signature #457] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9285300?utm_medium=rss lets help the whole country it really needs us

]]> Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:57:13 UTC 9285300 Miss Nicola Evans [Signature #456] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9251511?utm_medium=rss Sun, 9 Jan 2011 10:38:28 UTC 9251511 Mr Anthony Robinson [Signature #455] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9190643?utm_medium=rss Sat, 1 Jan 2011 04:35:30 UTC 9190643 Mr Aidan Moore [Signature #454] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9189449?utm_medium=rss Sat, 1 Jan 2011 12:43:53 UTC 9189449 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #453] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9149861?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:45:16 UTC 9149861 Mr Robert Peaty [Signature #452] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9140967?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:26:01 UTC 9140967 ms Jade Mitchell [Signature #451] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9116237?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:16:22 UTC 9116237 mr Marc Hart [Signature #450] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9116232?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:15:36 UTC 9116232 ms lesleyjane dawson [Signature #449] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9108498?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:50:09 UTC 9108498 Matthew McDade [Signature #448] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9103574?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:26:19 UTC 9103574 Mrs Rebecca Parfitt [Signature #447] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9098360?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:32:35 UTC 9098360 Mr Matthew Prince [Signature #446] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9093436?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:03:02 UTC 9093436 wendy reeve [Signature #445] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9093364?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:46:33 UTC 9093364 Anonymous [Signature #444] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9093287?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:30:11 UTC 9093287 Miss Laura Howe [Signature #443] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9092076?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:47:45 UTC 9092076 miss Anonymous [Signature #442] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9091875?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:14:33 UTC 9091875 ms Lisa Jackson [Signature #441] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9091772?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:56:19 UTC 9091772 Mrs Jennifer Howe [Signature #440] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9091539?utm_medium=rss I am especially concerned after hearing that people will volunteer to provide services - if they (people) dont volunteer then they( services) cant be wanted.

]]> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:18:25 UTC 9091539 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #439] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9080548?utm_medium=rss 50p per week on your Council Tax would secure the future of the library service.£2.25 per week would secure all the services.Make your feelings known!

]]> Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:26:56 UTC 9080548 Mr Matthew Hales-Khan [Signature #438] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9057862?utm_medium=rss Do listen to the people of Suffolk and reconsider these rash, ill thought out ideas. SCC is rushing headlong into a potential disaster for so many important public and community services. Stop and think - and re-appraise your calculations about the cuts you seem to believe are required, as these certainly do not appear to stack up. Run and support these services as you were elected to do.

]]> Tue, 7 Dec 2010 06:33:22 UTC 9057862 Jeremy Jones [Signature #437] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9039170?utm_medium=rss Sat, 4 Dec 2010 05:27:20 UTC 9039170 Mrs Louise Woulfe-Flanagan [Signature #436] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9011988?utm_medium=rss I'm not so angry about the cuts, except those to carers and vunerable, however i'm fuming about the shocking ways that the conservative council have been spending our money as shown in "Suffolks Wall of shame". These people have no comprehension about living on the bread line or how they have let my autistic son down with his education by cutting his one to one support, then don't care that he totally regressed, turned to violence, offered no support or respite, and got excluded from all schools

]]> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:14:40 UTC 9011988 Ms Anonymous [Signature #435] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9008760?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:48:31 UTC 9008760 Ms Anonymous [Signature #434] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9008755?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:46:35 UTC 9008755 Mrs Michelle Harrington [Signature #433] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9008311?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:25:49 UTC 9008311 Ms Kate Prince [Signature #432] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9008186?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:08:04 UTC 9008186 Miss Frances Edwards [Signature #431] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9008112?utm_medium=rss Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:56:27 UTC 9008112 Mr Tony Cooper [Signature #430] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9003695?utm_medium=rss Lets save money and get rid of SCC, and give the running back to the communities as it was before these group of people made themselves golden egg employment, every section has Manager, has a deputy Manager, assistant manager, and one little worker!!!
50% could be cut from the staffing levels and not be missed, BUT the golden eggs they would get would cost further cuts in the community!!!!!

]]> Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:31:22 UTC 9003695 Mrs Alison Rudland [Signature #429] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9002819?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:33:55 UTC 9002819 mrs susan Smith [Signature #428] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9002271?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:54:08 UTC 9002271 Dr Lawrence Smith [Signature #427] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9002263?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:52:59 UTC 9002263 Mr Robert Herring [Signature #426] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8999854?utm_medium=rss Fri, 26 Nov 2010 04:48:10 UTC 8999854 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #425] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8989683?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:59:29 UTC 8989683 Mr Brian Samuel [Signature #424] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8989661?utm_medium=rss Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:56:00 UTC 8989661 Marion Ransby [Signature #423] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8986370?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:05:27 UTC 8986370 Mrs Joan Goring [Signature #422] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8984456?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:07:49 UTC 8984456 Mr Malcolm Annis [Signature #421] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8984383?utm_medium=rss Electe SCC members should be responsible for our services- no to
privatisation of services. Reduction of high salaries would pay for some services!

]]> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:56:47 UTC 8984383 Mrs Diana Annis [Signature #420] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8984341?utm_medium=rss Reduce top executives' salaries by 10% at least. I voted for SCC to organise sevices not to privatise them .

]]> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:49:44 UTC 8984341 Mrs Jean Wright [Signature #419] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8983230?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:39:29 UTC 8983230 Mr John Wright [Signature #418] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8983196?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:35:17 UTC 8983196 Ms Shona Hardie [Signature #417] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8982316?utm_medium=rss We elect you to be accountable for the services we need. Unelected providers can't be accountable. Save money by cutting the outrageous salaries of your executives. No one is worth that much, not even Bill Gates! If they can't run effiecient services on the taxes we pay they should have their pay cut.

]]> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:02:34 UTC 8982316 Christopher Rickwood [Signature #416] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8978275?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:01:31 UTC 8978275 Rosemary Lincoln [Signature #415] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8977066?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:03:34 UTC 8977066 mr Richard Waplington [Signature #414] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8976484?utm_medium=rss I feel strongly that the services should be kept by the council and not privatised or run by volunteers, the local library is a very important community centre not just a book lending place.

]]> Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:39:16 UTC 8976484 Peter Southerill [Signature #413] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8975031?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:17:48 UTC 8975031 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #412] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8973509?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:58:42 UTC 8973509 Mrs Rosemary Wilder [Signature #411] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8968343?utm_medium=rss Sir.
The (grossly overpaid, reread the Prime Ministers comments please) executive exists as an advisory body, with the ELCTORATES permission, feel free to ignore everything it says, then get on and undertake the mandate agreed with the Suffolk voters. As an elected representative you have NO permission to undertake anything else without returning to the ballot box, assuming you have the nerve.

]]> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:37:43 UTC 8968343 Mr Chris Wilder [Signature #410] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8968225?utm_medium=rss Sir.
NSD is nothing to do with saving Suffolk and all to do with political ambition
May I respectfully suggest that you accept the full responsibility of your position, given by public ballot, and undertake to protect the people of Suffolk from outsiders, including highly paid non domicilliary executives, who are determined to destroy Suffolk County Council, its employees and services, solely to make a point.
Please remember, whatever the circumstances, there is always an alternative.

]]> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:25:44 UTC 8968225 Mrs Antoinette Tricker [Signature #409] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8965680?utm_medium=rss Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:54:46 UTC 8965680 Jill Wassell [Signature #408] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8964994?utm_medium=rss Your wasting of our money and resources are bordering on criminal and your plans for the shutting of care homes is absolutely disgusting given the amount you pay yourselves!!

]]> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:19:27 UTC 8964994 Stephen Wassell [Signature #407] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8964974?utm_medium=rss You have completely mismanaged the public expenditure of this county on a level tantamount to highway robbery. The pay for the chief executive and top managers in your council show that the financial sleaze in this country is not just the domain of our parliament, all of whom, yourselves included should not forget that you are our SERVANTS!!!

]]> Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:16:21 UTC 8964974 Mr Richard Monk [Signature #406] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8959175?utm_medium=rss Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:25:47 UTC 8959175 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #405] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8956434?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:55:44 UTC 8956434 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #404] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8954668?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:50:02 UTC 8954668 LYNETTE BROOKS [Signature #403] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8954665?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:49:12 UTC 8954665 ms Anonymous [Signature #402] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8953237?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:56:21 UTC 8953237 Carolyn Chisholm [Signature #401] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8947979?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:18:55 UTC 8947979 Mr. Malcolm Russell [Signature #400] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8946753?utm_medium=rss No to more privatisation.Not voted for and no mandate for such a fundamental change

]]> Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:54:52 UTC 8946753 Terry Land [Signature #399] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8945776?utm_medium=rss History has proved that outsourcing is always more expensive and always provides poorer service. Neither Suffolk Council nor the government have a mandate to destroy provision for the most needy.

]]> Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:49:43 UTC 8945776 Mr Richard Pirkis [Signature #398] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8939995?utm_medium=rss Where are the financial proposals? These should be open to public scrutiny and debate BEFORE decisions are made.

]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:13:20 UTC 8939995 Dr Dave Rowley [Signature #397] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8936984?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:52:10 UTC 8936984 Mr John Palmer [Signature #396] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8936835?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:39:51 UTC 8936835 Mr Dexter Denny [Signature #395] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8933750?utm_medium=rss Save our services, look at the dentists it's hard to get in to a NHS dentist let alone for an average income family to pay £160 for a check up for a private clinic. The NHS made our country different and work.

]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:39:24 UTC 8933750 Mr Simon Allsop [Signature #394] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8931760?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:22:54 UTC 8931760 Maureen Woodward [Signature #393] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8927158?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:24:16 UTC 8927158 mrs Stella O'Leary [Signature #392] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8922566?utm_medium=rss I use the local facility of Mildenhall library at least weekly, it provides more than just a 'book' to myself and my son, there are many more resources there and it is a community meeting place for young and old, new mothers, students etc.
My son is autistic and reads many books, too many for me to buy each week, many people dont have internet facilities or are lonely and get company there.
get rid of councillors instead to save money this is being railroaded through and is despicable.

]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:12:54 UTC 8922566 Mrs Patricia Heathcote [Signature #391] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8920109?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:44:32 UTC 8920109 mr Anonymous [Signature #390] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8908419?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 Nov 2010 03:45:05 UTC 8908419 Mrs Tina Handley-Howard [Signature #389] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/8900041?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:06:49 UTC 8900041