Good Local Economics

Two words that we hear less and less, especially by government ministers, are ‘Big Society’. In the 2010 general election, the ‘Big Society’ was one of the prime minister’s major policy initiatives and one of the ways by which society was going to be changed for the better.

We need to start fighting back against the rhetoric of ‘welfare scroungers’ and ‘work shirkers’ and start working for an increasingly demonised poor. As these crude caricatures rise, we need to gather evidence and convey the real statistical and human story.