http://www.mirror.co....cuts-115875-22423909/
))))))Big Spin & Sorcery. The use of the phrase "Big Society" is cute; it of course means "Small Government", but this is a less acceptable thing to say and would raise the obvious question - "what does Small Government mean to us?"...the answer appears to be that it means the removal of funding for everything but the kitchen sink, after all if you can scrap the rebuilding of clapped-out schools there isn't a lot left that will be sacred?
We're all aware of the financial drivers, but the idea that the third sector can pick-up the slack and that we will get a say in what gets cut and what stays is not cuckoo thinking, its simply disingenuous.
Those who really need Big Governement, the most vulnerable, will be left with nothing. Beware if you are elderly, ill, unemployed, or living in a crime ridden areas. This government will give you nothing.
Instead of this insane twitter to the already twittering classes they should be focusing on promoting steady and sustainable economic growth. What we really have is a development of the idea that there is no such thing as society, wrapped up in a glossy paper to make us feel empowered.
"Big Society" is just a political mythical idealistic spin/propaganda sales pitch which scrapes around the truth and reality and basically airbrushes out the evidential reality of regressive society.(((((
Above, a jaundiced one sided view perhaps - but does anybody think “Big Society” has any merit at all ?