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Making councils a friend of enterprise
Council procurement managers aren’t the enemy of enterprise, Mr Cameron. But with your help they could do more to support local businesses, says Matthew Jackson
In the government’s latest crusade against the functions of local government, prime minister David Cameron proclaimed at the weekend that the third of the ‘enemies of enterprise’ were ‘the public procurement managers who put contracts with big business before opening up markets for small enterprise’. For me and probably many in local government, this sweeping statement is wrong on a number of accounts.
The shift in public services has only just begun
We asked six experts to give their verdict on the events of 2011 in the key areas of public services, local economic development and regeneration, civil society, poverty, sustainability and housing and suggest the way forward in 2012. Simon Parker kicks the series off by examining the impact of public sector cutbacks
Eric Hobsbawm famously argued that there existed a ‘long 19th century’ bounded by the French Revolution and the First World War, and a short ?20th century that followed the rise and fall of Soviet Communism.
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