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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:03 pm ]
Post subject:  David Cameron launches Tories' 'big society' plan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10680062

Quote:
David Cameron has launched his "big society" drive to empower communities, describing it as his "great passion".

In a speech in Liverpool, the prime minister said groups should be able to run post offices, libraries, transport services and shape housing projects.

Also announcing plans to use dormant bank accounts to fund projects, Mr Cameron said the concept would be a "big advance for people power".

Voluntary groups and Labour have queried how the schemes will be funded.

The idea was a central theme in the Conservative general election campaign and Mr Cameron denied that he was being forced to re-launch it because of a lack of interest first time around.

While reducing the budget deficit was his "duty", he said giving individuals and communities more control over their destinies was what excited him and was something that had underpinned his philosophy since he became Conservative leader in 2005.

Does anyone else think that this whole project is spin to distract us from the destruction of the public sector?
Author:  lumbthelesser [ Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:35 am ]
Post subject:  Re: David Cameron launches Tories' 'big society' plan
Amnesia10 wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10680062

Quote:
David Cameron has launched his "big society" drive to empower communities, describing it as his "great passion".

In a speech in Liverpool, the prime minister said groups should be able to run post offices, libraries, transport services and shape housing projects.

Also announcing plans to use dormant bank accounts to fund projects, Mr Cameron said the concept would be a "big advance for people power".

Voluntary groups and Labour have queried how the schemes will be funded.

The idea was a central theme in the Conservative general election campaign and Mr Cameron denied that he was being forced to re-launch it because of a lack of interest first time around.

While reducing the budget deficit was his "duty", he said giving individuals and communities more control over their destinies was what excited him and was something that had underpinned his philosophy since he became Conservative leader in 2005.

Does anyone else think that this whole project is spin to distract us from the destruction of the public sector?

Surely if they were doing their job, and managed to put in place well regulated school and post offices (by well regulated, I do not mean 'surrounded in red tape') there would be no need for locals to take over a failing local concern?
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: David Cameron launches Tories' 'big society' plan
In the case of post offices if the Tories had not tried to cut the costs of the benefits and pensions payouts they would not have slashed the income of the post office. It was all a matter of joined up thinking, which Labour said they would do but never implemented. Not that I could see. So that explains post offices. As for libraries how can they be failing? The problem is that governments of all persuasions have tolerated property bubbles. This pushes up wages and increases the costs of operating every service. You only have to see how corrupt the whole system was when housing associations needed the high property prices to afford their own plans to build social housing. That makes the costs of a library higher. The only way of running it cheaper is to cut back services and cut wages, which are not high anyway.
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