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  You are right Darren in many respects. The power is only there for the people to grab if they stand up and grab it. If we sit back and let councils grab it we shall be no better off. Big society is thousands of local initiatives encompassing millions of individuals, all working for different ends. It is not millions of drones all striving for the same ends- that is collectivism.
  
  If the government want to sell assets against the will of the people, there is little we can do to stop them except to set up peoples' organisations to buy those assets. Sound familiar?
  
  For the record my jury is still out on free schools! And in my view British 'society' is not singular in concept but a concept made up of fifty-eight million dots, all of whom are different, have free will, and above all, now have the freedom to associate with like-minded dots to club together and change things. Localism Act or no Localism Act, nobody is going to knock at your door and suggest you can make a better fist of running Dover Castle than English Heritage- it is up to the individual to get off his arse and initiate change.

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