There was once a great, enchanting, romantic dream of local government. And that’s a dream idealists are prompted to look back to when the reality becomes far too overwhelming. In 2014, that reality is staring at us full force in the face. The present model of local government has run its course. The town halls […]
Posts Tagged ‘Big Society’
Privatisation strikes again, this time against the homeless
Dec 28th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.The pell-mell rush to outsource all public services is being shipwrecked this Xmas on a huge rock which is set to have devastating consequences for those tragically vulnerable persons who only get attention the year round at Christmas time.
There is such thing as society: and I saw it when my child ran away
Sep 27th, 2012 by Lucy Reese.A couple of days ago something genuinely terrible happened. My eldest child ran away from a park where he was playing with a friend after school. It all happened in a split second; the two boys were messing about, not wanting to go home, much to the irritation of the adults. Then they suddenly vanished. […]
The real failure of the baby boomers
Oct 10th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.We have heard much talk of something called the ‘Big Society’. This in essence is a set of ideas being promulgated by David Cameron and the less hard edged supporters of his Government. As such it is something of an improvement on an infamous intervention by Margaret Thatcher, who said “there is no such a […]