A dead weight

The Post's Lobby correspondent column from last week...

If you were to ask a coalition party press officer what the Big Society is, they would probably tell you it is "communities doing it for themselves" i.e. charities, volunteers and social enterprises working to solve society's ills, instead of direct state action.

But if you were to ask me, I would tell you the Big Society is a huge lead, deadweight of a phrase that Cameron will one day regret ever coining.

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