Francis Maude is the Cabinet "face" of the Big Society (BS) the Tory plan to have us all volunteering to run public services for free. This audio of Eddie Mair asking Mr Maude how much volunteering he dates is from last summer, but still relevant as Dave continues to relaunch his pet BS project.....
And funny, of course.....
Showing posts with label The Big Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Big Society. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Francis Maude gets booed on QT
Just watched an interesting moment on BBC Question Time. On a question about "The Big Society", Francis Maude went into the usual spiel about how Labour left all that bebt...
....hardly were the words out of his mouth when a huge BOO! went up from the audience!
It's here ......and it's astonishing.
It's not so long since the same sentence would have got a cheer or at least a clap.
Are people getting sick of it already....?
Bad news for the coalition. Good news for those of us that want the government to have a sensible economic strategy based on the facts and not on blaming someone else for their own decisions....
....hardly were the words out of his mouth when a huge BOO! went up from the audience!
It's here ......and it's astonishing.
It's not so long since the same sentence would have got a cheer or at least a clap.
Are people getting sick of it already....?
Bad news for the coalition. Good news for those of us that want the government to have a sensible economic strategy based on the facts and not on blaming someone else for their own decisions....
Thursday, 3 February 2011
The Big Society -v- The Real World
Lord Wei, David Cameron's "Big Sociey Tsar", has had to reduce the time he gives to the voluntary work of encouraging other people to take up voluntary work through the Big Society to return to real work. He can't afford all the voluntary work involved in the Big society and needs to earn a living (through the usual Tory toil of more directorships etc.)....
Really. You couldn't make it up....
Update;
It's worse than I thought....
It now turns out that Phillip Blond admitted that the idea was in trouble in the Sun. And Liverpool's 'Big Society' champion, Phil Redmond told the Local Government Chronicle that the project had made little progress over the last six months become “subsumed” by the cuts agenda. Now Joe Anderson, the leader of Liverpool City Council, has written to Dave withdrawing from the project, saying that government cuts have threatened the future of many local volunteer groups and he can no longer support the initiative.
Was there ever a more woolly, ill-thought-out, meaningless statement of personal or political philosophy than Dave's foolish championing of "The Big Society"?
Really. You couldn't make it up....
Update;
It's worse than I thought....
It now turns out that Phillip Blond admitted that the idea was in trouble in the Sun. And Liverpool's 'Big Society' champion, Phil Redmond told the Local Government Chronicle that the project had made little progress over the last six months become “subsumed” by the cuts agenda. Now Joe Anderson, the leader of Liverpool City Council, has written to Dave withdrawing from the project, saying that government cuts have threatened the future of many local volunteer groups and he can no longer support the initiative.
Was there ever a more woolly, ill-thought-out, meaningless statement of personal or political philosophy than Dave's foolish championing of "The Big Society"?
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