The Boundary Committee - WAWOS

With yet another delay in the long drawn out LGR process, it looks as though any reorganisation in Suffolk will never happen.

Or will it?

Clifford Smith has made another of his intelligent observations (EADT 20-07-09) whilst calling "for our MP's and local leaders to seize this opportunity and show the statesmanship needed to protect our services and save our money".

Perhaps though we need to ask more of them?

The word is our various councillors and local political leaders know the game is up so they need to start talking to each other again after what has been a very acrimonious couple of years.

However, they need to do more than talk.

With huge multi-million £ bills for the LGR process our councils and councillors, at all levels, must actively pursue new ways of working together to cover these costs and reduce council tax demands in the future.

The only way of doing this is to consolidate services and staff across councils, cut out all excess provision and outsource more functions to the private and/or voluntary sectors.

There is a great opportunity here to provide value for Suffolk council tax payers in a very challenging economic environment.

Are our political elite and senior council officials brave and bold enough for this task?

Maybe, one day, a unified and Unitary Suffolk?


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