We all know that journalists hunt in packs and now they are circling around the Big
Society. Lord Wei’s decision to restrict his volunteering to two days a week and the announcement that Liverpool City Council has withdrawn from a “Big Society” pilot have been
used to suggest that the idea is dead before it has been fully articulated.
This would be a shame. The emergence of the Big Society has coincided with a revival of interest in the co-operative movement and mutualism. And thoughtful figures on the left, such as Jon Cruddas and Hazel Blears, have already begun to work on a Labour Party response.
But there is already a growing suspicion that the government may be losing its nerve on the Big Society or, worse, that it really didn’t mean it in the first place.
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