David Cameron’s Big Society proposal, supposed to breathe new vigour into Britain’s public life, appears to have been dead on arrival. Denounced by many Conservatives as too “wooly”, damned by others as a fig-leaf for cuts, and said to need major government spending to have any chance of working, Cameron must be wondering how to get his big idea off the ground.
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