The Big Society Explained
The government claims the Big Society they want to install in the UK is a hugely ambitious and complex matter. Ministers sometimes find it difficult to spin the ‘BS’ in simple sound bites.
For a Tory explaining the Big Society is a bit like communicating the origins of the universe. It is shrouded in a degree of mystery. The mystery is essential because the Big Society has the same moral physiology of a pyramid sales scheme. The Big Society depends on a government who falsely claim that society can be improved, healed and rejuvenated if we all work harder for less money. Like all pyramid schemes the only people who benefit from it are the con men and women who advocate it.
In order to clarify matters and remove any mystery the photo essay below explains the reality of the Big Society:
Whitechapel Library
The Big Society closes libraries.
Bus Stop, East London
The Big Society restricts public transport and increases fares.
Stop the War protest
The Big Society accommodates war.
Demonstration against education cuts
The Big Society excludes the poor and many others from education.
A bank at Canary Wharf
The Big Society robs money from the poor and gives it to the banks and allows bankers to pay themselves huge ‘bonuses’.
A Hand in a NHS hospital, 2011
The Big Society is sacking health workers and believes hospitals should be run like a business for profit.
Electricity supply to London
The Big Society increases fuel poverty as it encourages energy companies to make greater profits.
Homeless person sleeping in a cardboard box
The Big Society is cutting housing benefit and increasing the level of homelessness.
This explanation of the Big Society may not be as comprehensive as it could be. If I have missed anything out please let me know.
The big society was doodled on the back of an envelope, and the envelope was empty?
The BS asks us to volunteer but withdraws funds from volunteer groups and charities we want to volunteer for.
The BS pays adult education institutions to educate teenagers but not adults, then extra (unspecified) money to institutions whose students get a job (thereby leaving the institution & depriving it of funds)
B*** S***
The big society is another name for big brother.
Fantastic commentary & photojournalism!
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