Comments on: The Big Society and the Big Con

By: Simon Collister

Simon Collister — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:34:12 +0000

Nice analysis Chris. Initially I thought the Big Society was a good idea – what’s not to like about mutual aid?

But you are on the money. The Big Society, is sadly a society designed along classic conservative lines. Worse – as you point out – is that if you disagree with this social framework then you’re frozen out. The best passive way of disempowering/excluding people.

Evil genius.

I thought it was the only ‘big idea’ before the election but happy now it’s taken a back seat.

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By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:14:11 +0000

Sounds a lot like the so called Teabaggers in the states. The worrying thing about those is that they pretend to be “grassroots” but are provably actually Astroturf organisations. That is, they appear to be by the people for the people but they are really set up and paid for by big financial interests such as oil and tobacco.

That reads an awful lot as the Murdoch’s Conservatives plan to try the same thing over here but with the added insult of selling it to us as if it is for our own good.

No thank you very much!

By: Andrew Thornton

Andrew Thornton — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:58:43 +0000

This big society thing seems to be more about selling off and privatisation than anything else. As far as I was aware, Community groups won’t actually be able to run their own schools they simply will be able solicit tenders for a company to run the school.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:29:56 +0000

I couldn’t agree more about the new ‘community’ schools that the Tories are proposing. There’s no way people will be bothered to run schools or any other organisations for that matter if they don’t have to; I really don’t feel like this can lead anywhere positive.