posted by Tim Dobson, category:
commentWho is going to make our communities better places to live? How do you feel about the move to encourage local people to take responsibility for their own neighbourhoods?
The Big Society was the flagship policy idea of the 2010 UK Conservative Party general election manifesto. Its aim was "to create a climate that empowers local people and communities, building a big society that will ‘take power away from politicians and give it to people’”. Labour's Ed Miliband said that the Conservatives were "cynically attempting to dignify its cuts agenda, by dressing up the withdrawal of support with the language of reinvigorating civic society".
