The United Kingdom Elections 2010

**gaelic cowboy** · 03-31-2010, 14:50

Originally Posted by Furunculus

Camerons Big Society:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8596256.stm

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.

Is that not Blairism????????

**al Roumi** · 03-31-2010, 15:11

Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy

Is that not Blairism????????

It does smack rather strikingly of Blair's "third way"...

**Furunculus** · 03-31-2010, 15:21

perhaps in its appearance, but it won't have to be forced through the teeth of a labour party still clinging to stupid ideas about class-war, the disadvantaged, and how the two should be forced to meet by policies that try to force equality of outcome.

we could genuinely end up with a government that does less, (a good thing), and empowers people to make up that deficit themselves (also a good thing).

**al Roumi** · 03-31-2010, 15:26

Originally Posted by Furunculus

perhaps in its appearance, but it won't have to be forced through the teeth of a labour party still clinging to stupid ideas about class-war, the disadvantaged, and how the two should be forced to meet by policies that try to force equality of outcome.

we could genuinely end up with a government that does less, (a good thing), and empowers people to make up that deficit themselves (also a good thing).

Why not?...if there was any evidence to trust Cameron to deliver anything. Either way, this is still a vague concept.

And I'm not saying that "big governement" or Brown is the answer here either...