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Any Tory voters think Cameron's "Big Society" idea was a good one?

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VodkaAndTonic · 08/05/2010 20:26

From The Guardian here:

Another senior and normally loyal Tory MP complained that Cameron's big idea for the campaign ? "the Big Society", under which armies of volunteers would come together to tackle the country's ills ? was "complete crap".

"We couldn't sell that stuff on the doorstep. It was pathetic. All we needed was a simple message on policy. We could have won a majority if we had not had to try to sell this nonsense."

Do any Tory voters:

a) think Big Society is a good idea
b) think it is a vote winner
c) think it is "complete crap"?

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longfingernailspaintedblue · 08/05/2010 20:36

It's a good but slightly complicated idea, which is very hard to sell on the doorstep, and therefore isn't a good campaigning tool but a useful governing philosophy.

I think they made a big mistake in how they handled selling it. It should have been articulated as a philosophy 2 years ago, and then every policy measured up against it. That would have gotten people more used to the idea.

They also shouldn't have allowed the crude caricature (oh, you'll have to run your own schools'n'hospitals) to get out of hand.