The United Kingdom Elections 2010

[Banquo's Ghost]

i like it.

Cameron’s proposal is that government should become an enabler rather than a provider: that it encourage, facilitate, train and help to finance local activism and organisation to counter social problems and run services. He is certainly right to say that, in the long-run this is the best way to get the deficit down because it is less wasteful and inefficient than central government-run provision.

I'd agree with you. Unfortunately, the society he hopes to accept this responsibility is hopelessly broken after the imposition of Thatcher's selfish individualism, magnified by the Blair/Brown years of rampant excess based on wanton government spending. There are precious few who would take on the necessary leadership - and those who would, will do so out of a political agenda rather than a community one. I suggest that Mr Cameron's party would not be very happy with the politics of the people who are energised enough to counter social problems and run services. (Frankly, New Labour has done its best to stamp them out as well - we are not talking about the Women's Institute's Militant Wing (Sink Estates) here, which is what David fondly imagines).