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‘Big Society’ Can Get in the Bin (and Food Banks While You’re There)
This morning, there’s an article in the Guardian about the government’s new scheme to push yet more public services out to charities, businesses and civil society, to help build stronger communities.
They want these groups to work together and provide support for issues such as loneliness, homelessness and online safety. Oh, and libraries. The problem is, Theresa darling, that people face these problems in the first place due to a lack of money personally or rescinded funding in the local community. Asking voluntary groups to provide service means even more people need to give up their precious spare time to help run facilities which are traditionally state funded.
It’s hard enough trying to earn money and have a personal life without being expected to work for free on the side. It’s just the further push of the Conservative agenda that seems to be predicated on leaving everything to other people to sort out. Just look at Jimbo Cameron for the epitome of this belief, dropping his Brexit timebomb like an incendiary mic drop before promptly leaving the building.
Just look at Jimbo Cameron for the epitome of this belief, dropping his Brexit timebomb like an incendiary mic drop before promptly leaving…
