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How many people actually believe this twaddle ???????

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ivanhoe · 29/01/2011 19:18

COPIED AND PASTED.

QUOTE. ""Cameron rolls Thatcher revolution on

The Thatcher Governments of the 1980s gave people more power and control over their own lives by selling council houses to tenants and shares in nationalised industries to voters.

However, the Conservative revolution only went so far: the delivery as well as the funding of most local hospitals, schools, and council services stayed in state hands.

Today, the Prime Minister will give notice that the revolution's to roll on: in a speech to civil servants, he'll pledge "to turn government on its head, taking power away from Whitehall and putting it into the hands of people and communities".

Elected Commissioners will set policing priorities; parents will run schools; charities, clubs, voluntary groups and local people will take over swimming pools, libraries, social services, youth provision, and services for vulnerable people, such as drug and alcohol addiction programmes.

Edmund Burke's Little Platoons will evolve naturally into Steve Hilton's Big Society.

David Cameron will say: "The real question is: how can we achieve these aims when there is so little money?...The answer is reform - radical reform. We need to completely change the way this country is run.""

Unquote.

Aside from anything else, Mr David Cameron is saying that we have "so little money".

I guess Mr Cameron hopes we will all sit back and forget the billions we send overseas. The £50 plus million a day we fund into the EU. Plus the ring fenced expenditures are almost a bottomless pit care of "GREAT BRITAIN'S CHARITABLE GENEROSITY" round the world.

A question. Would you rather the State care of your income tax funded Britain's vital services ?

Or would you rather local charietes funded schools ect, because the government care of "the state" washed it's hands of it's responsibility's ?

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bb99 · 29/01/2011 21:14

OMG - do you look at the statistics for how many people even bother to VOTE in this country, and what's the point of having politicians and Civil Servants if I then have to run all the local finances and services? That's WHY I vote for them and why they get paid.

Some people can't even be bothered to work in this country or take responsibility for themselves, how are they supposed to help RUN the country?

It's a cost cutting exercise FGS - and sold with a lot of spin about 'empowering people'.

Look at Parish Councils and the petty oligarks they produce - this will be more of the same. Power obsessed locals who weren't successful enough or dedicated enough to bother with full time politics.

And what about things like planning permission - it's already a bit of an old boys network, this will just increase the opportunities for MORE OBNs...

How many people do you know who are qualified or bothered enough to be part of the 'big society'? That's the reality.

Chil1234 · 29/01/2011 20:57

That makes two of us then, doesn't it? I can't see the wood for the trees & you can't see the hammer for the sickles. I like a bit of balance.

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ivanhoe · 29/01/2011 20:45

""On the whole, I prefer to live in a country where the leaders want to devolve power closer to the people""

Yes, without devolving taxes, instead making charities and private companies look after all vital services, which also means high local taxes which will hit the poor.

You cant see the wood for the trees, and what's more you dont want to.

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Chil1234 · 29/01/2011 20:10

I know it's not 'right on' to admit to supporting the coalition on MN at the moment but given the unadulterated mess the last hypocritical lot made of running the show and the lack of confidence inspired by the chumps currently squatting on the Opposition benches, scratching their arses and snitching on each other to the Sundays, I'm willing to give the incumbents the benefit of the doubt.

Comrade ivanhoe would presumably be much happier if we offered Mr Putin the post of PM and asked him to show us how caring socialism really works in practice...

imright · 29/01/2011 19:59

Well said. Chil1234.

Chil1234 · 29/01/2011 19:53

On the whole, I prefer to live in a country where the leaders want to devolve power closer to the people and run the finances responsibly rather than one where the government holds all the cards in Westminster, operates a nanny/police state and wastes billions in tax money