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  Richard, I am afraid there will always be those who can't take on new and radical ideas. If they do not understand they feel threatened. In order to get the big society concept across we need missionaries to spread the word.
  
  The problem is that it means different things in different contexts. At one extreme big society is Dover buying its own port. At the other end of the scale it's a group of mothers taking over a school meals service. But the common thread running through every big society initiative will be citizens waking up and saying 'we can run that better than the government/council/etc' and setting out plans to take that particular function away from the dead hand of government.
  
  We can't hurry things. It will take time, but it will happen.

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