Thursday 3 February 2011

Whinging Councils

In a way that echoes finding bear poo in the woods, we have Liverpool Council saying it won't sign up to the Big Society because of government cuts. Some people who obviously don't pay enough attention (yes Dr Noreena Hertz I mean you) say that you cannot impose a Big Society from above. That is true, but Cameron isn't suggesting he will. What I suspect he is up to in bringing it up at all, is that if services are withdrawn, well, why not do them yourself? Certainly government does too much and tries to nanny us, so seeing it do less is very welcome but as long as we also see a commensurate drop in our taxes. If Cameron wants to see a Big Society, then the best way to achieve it is to shrink the government and be a Conservative. But he seems to prefer the proven failure of socialism.

And as for the cuts, councils are deliberately targeting front line services to annoy taxpayers and to try to use that 'fury' for their own ends. Blair and Brown invented a million new public sector jobs, some of them may be useful, but it is the duplicity of these two that has put many others at the same risk they have subjected the rest of us to.

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