The Big Society

We've been hearing a lot again this week about Prime Minister David Cameron's "Big Society" but I guess we are less clear about what it actually means. Whatever it does mean the election was fought on this as the vision and cornerstone of the Conservative Party's campaign. Officially the aim is "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". This of course the same party whose Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, "there is no such thing as society".