Hi…first post, sorry if it just comes across as a rant or a mindless outpouring of random thoughts but I am not a particularly eloquent writer, ask anyone I can’t even use paragraphs. Anyways this is whats been rattling around the confusing and often frightening world of my mind this week, ‘big society not big state’(David Camerons new big idea) What a cunt of a statement, for starts I really can’t see any parties within the British system arguing for any kind of big state, what labour has created is not a big state, nationalisation died along with our dreams when Thatcher came to power. David Cameron is not arguing against a big state he’s assaulting the welfare state (the institutional model a part of big state but not the entire of it) directly attacking the proportion of GDP being used by the state, not an entirely indefensible position considering that each individuals proportion of national debt is now larger than that of a small African nation but the strange thing is the man who claims to support openness in politics has tried to make this into some strange visionary principle painting the picture of a utopian society of imposed morals and individual responsibility (read self interest) . Has he been watching too many of Barack Obama’s speeches? Is he having a sort of strange political midlife crisis? As leader of the conservative party he has every right to be rational, to be the grown up who makes tough choices but there’s no way your going to evoke passion or be a visionary, you can no more get exited about a Tory party policy than u can about vaccination. People vote conservative because they’ve given up they’ve discovered a secret that makes them think their better than everyone else LIFE SUCKS and since discovering this they find progress tiring and dreams frivolous, they think it would be nice to stop for awhile let things stay the same or maybe a bit more like the olden days. Poor David’s misguided attempt to make conservativism the socialism of the 21st century was doomed from the off because his key electorate have lost hope, this is as good as it gets, oh well at least we’re not poor. But still he tries, still he rambles this mindless drivel about charitys taking the role of the welfare state, an obviously unworkable option considering its been proven that people tend only to give to charities that play a part in their own lives religious people give to churches, rich people give to the arts etc., its not because their selfish it’s because it is what occurs to them but what this means is that the welfare state, most prominent in the lives of the poor will have to receive the majority of its funding from those same people, and then there’s decentralisation giving power to neighbourhoods to choose how their neighbourhood is run. WAY TO FUEL THE EVER INCREASING INEQUALITY IN OUR SOCIETY DAVID, way to allow the rich to withdraw even further from society into their own special neighbourhoods where they can choose the type of houses built(read type of neighbours) and fund their own council services just for their neighbourhood, way to find another way of expecting the needy to fund the needy. And who will ensure the coherence of this society with minimal central planning THE MAGIC HANDS OF COURSE and you thought we left those in the 1920’s, yes the same magic hands which have worked so well in running our deregulated economy will now be running our society too. What a phenomenal cunt and worst than all the rest of this is that we’ve heard it all before ‘Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope’ . Lets not go back there.