Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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I agree Peter but as I said in Post #15.
Use it or lose it, boycott the parks and they will take them away
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Keith Sansum1
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I think i shre brian's -view a little, although i hope the present tory administration in dover is not thinking of charging to use the parks in dover district?
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Whatever next , may be we will have to pay to walk on the paths in some areas , again im guessing theese well off tories have nice homes with gardens , and no doubt swings and such like to , one of the many reasons to not vote con or lib again .
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Mark
It will result in us paying....
Tolls for the road,
Pennies for the pavement
Pounds for public parks
loadsamoney for lending from the library
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Marek, I always thought many of your posts were tongue-in-cheek but I am beginning to think that you have peddled this socialist disinformation for so long that you are starting to believe it.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Whatever next! This is just ludicrous, I'm lost for words, and that doesn't happen often, except to say the first thought that comes to mind is, we will see the rather well off kids happily playing on the swings £2.50 in hand whilst the poorer kids stand outside with their noses pressed up against the railings
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Peter
Of course many of my posts are ''tongue in cheek'' or some would argue more like ''foot in mouth'' but the above report is,as you know, a 'true' story about Wandsworth city council
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i thought colette in post 26 summed the situation up rather nicely.
the big society has come under scrutiny again and it appears that the haves will continue to have and the have nots will have even less than they have now.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just to illustrate an independent view of the "big society".
Britain's poorest areas will be left behind by David Cameron's Big Society, a major report will warn tomorrow, as two polls show that the public are increasingly confused by the concept.
The Prime Minister will try to revive his faltering mission to boost social action and community volunteering next week - on the eve of President Obama's visit to Britain - by highlighting success stories that illustrate his vision of a Big Society.
But a hard-hitting report into the scheme by an independent cross-party commission will say that the Government's enthusiasm for it risks being undermined by "over-rapid and poorly managed public spending cuts" to the voluntary sector, particularly in low-income areas.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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and there's more:-
The Big Society in crisis: Are the wheels coming off the PM's Big Idea?
Major report says cuts are undermining the Tories' flagship policy as the public struggles to understand what it means
By Jane Merrick
Sunday, 15 May 2011
The Big Society is the brainchild of Steve Hilton, the Conservative strategy chief
Britain's poorest areas will be left behind by David Cameron's Big Society, a major report will warn tomorrow, as two polls show that the public are increasingly confused by the concept.
The Prime Minister will try to revive his faltering mission to boost social action and community volunteering next week - on the eve of President Obama's visit to Britain - by highlighting success stories that illustrate his vision of a Big Society.
But a hard-hitting report into the scheme by an independent cross-party commission will say that the Government's enthusiasm for it risks being undermined by "over-rapid and poorly managed public spending cuts" to the voluntary sector, particularly in low-income areas.
And a YouGov poll carried out for the commission, chaired by the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard, found that 78 per cent of the public believe the PM and Government have failed to articulate what the term actually means.
The report says this failure to tell a "sufficiently compelling narrative" has "fuelled high levels of cynicism" about the motives behind it at a time of swingeing public spending cuts.
Because of this vagueness, the agenda risks being used by Whitehall and local authorities as a "cover for cuts", the authors argue. The commission panel includes Mr Cameron's former policy adviser turned Conservative MP, Nick Boles, as well as the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, and charity chiefs.
A separate ComRes poll for The Independent on Sunday shows that in fact fewer people understand what the term "Big Society" means now than three months ago: 40 per cent admit they could not grasp the concept, compared with 30 per cent in February.
Mr Cameron launched his vision for the Big Society, the brainchild of his strategy chief Steve Hilton, in November 2009. After becoming Prime Minister a year ago, he said his government's reform agenda would have the Big Society at its heart.
But since then, some cabinet ministers have been indifferent to the project, with the Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg virtually disowning the notion altogether.