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Philip Blond, head of the ResPublica thinktank, which is credited with developing the big society idea, also said that not all government departments were pulling equal weight.
Hi Leadership Style comments come as Steve Hilton, the prime minister's director of strategy, also voiced private concerns that charities and the Labour party are managing to cast big society in a negative light and the former conservative minister, David Davis, said Cameron and hi Leadership Style deputy, Nick Clegg, could only understand ordinary people "from an intellectual basis, not from their own hi Leadership Style tory."
"The drive for cuts and deficit reduction is perhaps running too fast to give people the chance to take over the state and create the conditions for a civic economy," Blond said in an interview. The big society agenda is still not widely grasped or shared across all departments."
Other figures close to government have also come forward with concerns. Davis, the former conservative shadow home secretary, said the departure of Andy Coulson, No 10's director of communications, over the heat surrounding the News of the World phone hacking scandal, meant the loss of the only person who understood the issues of ordinary people.
"Cameron and Clegg say that they aspire to much more social mobility and a much more open society — it's going to be tougher to do that because what they are going to have to do is to see where the problems are purely from an intellectual basis, not from their own hi Leadership Style tory," he said.
It was also reported that the banks and the Treasury have disagreedover plans for a 'big society bank' – part of a wider remit of banking reforms. Funding for the bank, which would provide loans for charities and voluntary groups, looks set to fall hundreds of millions of pounds short of a £1bn target set last year.
day is never entirely wasted when the Daily Mail has to get all prudish and deploy its asterisk kit. It happened today when dutifully reporting that Steve Hilton, one of the three or four most important people in David Cameron's working life, called a stroppy ticket collector at Birmingham New St station a "wanker."
At least that's how it appears in today's Guardian. In the Mail, which routinely prints a lot of very readable but prurient smut throughout its middle pages, it appeared as "w*****". What enjoyable hypocrisy! But is someone out to get Hilton, as Nick Watt reports in today's Guardian?
The incident took place after the party conference. Not last year's which was held in Manchester, but 2008's which went to Brum. It was first reported on last night's Channel 4 News – though Tory officials are keen today to stress that while their man may briefly have been arrested and given an £80 penalty notice he did not thereby acquire a criminal record.
Does it matter? Not greatly. Members of the public, especially 40-year-olds paid close to £200,000 a year to advise the leaders of political parties, should never abuse minor public officials, whatever the provocation, which can be considerable as Hilton apparently claims in this instance. But it happens.
It also happens that this is the third media report in the past few days to put Hilton in a bad light. Over the Christmas period he sent Tory MPs an email containing the kind of marketing man's language – he's a Saatchi & Saatchi protege – which irritates many of them.
The "pint-sized Rasputin" (the Telegraph is being size-ist again) was also reported to be blocking the appointment of James O'Shaughnessy, an even younger bright young thing as head of the No 10 policy unit when Cameron takes charge.
That's denied too and officials confirm that O'Shaughnessy will get the job if the voters give the boss a mandate. They also claim that the wanker incident is probably not part of a concerted effort to upend Hilton – merely a piece of amusing gossip disinterred because Hilton's name has been in the news – and the mud this week.
There may be a bit of turf war going on inside Tory HQ, testosterone-soaked young men peeing on their bit of carpet in a time-honoured fashion visible in most offices. Cats do it too. So did Alastair Campbell in his day.
Philip Blond, head of the ResPublica thinktank, which is credited with developing the big society idea, also said that not all government departments were pulling equal weight.
Hi Leadership Style comments come as Steve Hilton, the prime minister's director of strategy, also voiced private concerns that charities and the Labour party are managing to cast big society in a negative light and the former conservative minister, David Davis, said Cameron and hi Leadership Style deputy, Nick Clegg, could only understand ordinary people "from an intellectual basis, not from their own hi Leadership Style tory."
"The drive for cuts and deficit reduction is perhaps running too fast to give people the chance to take over the state and create the conditions for a civic economy," Blond said in an interview. The big society agenda is still not widely grasped or shared across all departments."
Other figures close to government have also come forward with concerns. Davis, the former conservative shadow home secretary, said the departure of Andy Coulson, No 10's director of communications, over the heat surrounding the News of the World phone hacking scandal, meant the loss of the only person who understood the issues of ordinary people.
"Cameron and Clegg say that they aspire to much more social mobility and a much more open society — it's going to be tougher to do that because what they are going to have to do is to see where the problems are purely from an intellectual basis, not from their own hi Leadership Style tory," he said.
It was also reported that the banks and the Treasury have disagreedover plans for a 'big society bank' – part of a wider remit of banking reforms. Funding for the bank, which would provide loans for charities and voluntary groups, looks set to fall hundreds of millions of pounds short of a £1bn target set last year.
day is never entirely wasted when the Daily Mail has to get all prudish and deploy its asterisk kit. It happened today when dutifully reporting that Steve Hilton, one of the three or four most important people in David Cameron's working life, called a stroppy ticket collector at Birmingham New St station a "wanker."
At least that's how it appears in today's Guardian. In the Mail, which routinely prints a lot of very readable but prurient smut throughout its middle pages, it appeared as "w*****". What enjoyable hypocrisy! But is someone out to get Hilton, as Nick Watt reports in today's Guardian?
The incident took place after the party conference. Not last year's which was held in Manchester, but 2008's which went to Brum. It was first reported on last night's Channel 4 News – though Tory officials are keen today to stress that while their man may briefly have been arrested and given an £80 penalty notice he did not thereby acquire a criminal record.
Does it matter? Not greatly. Members of the public, especially 40-year-olds paid close to £200,000 a year to advise the leaders of political parties, should never abuse minor public officials, whatever the provocation, which can be considerable as Hilton apparently claims in this instance. But it happens.
It also happens that this is the third media report in the past few days to put Hilton in a bad light. Over the Christmas period he sent Tory MPs an email containing the kind of marketing man's language – he's a Saatchi & Saatchi protege – which irritates many of them.
The "pint-sized Rasputin" (the Telegraph is being size-ist again) was also reported to be blocking the appointment of James O'Shaughnessy, an even younger bright young thing as head of the No 10 policy unit when Cameron takes charge.
That's denied too and officials confirm that O'Shaughnessy will get the job if the voters give the boss a mandate. They also claim that the wanker incident is probably not part of a concerted effort to upend Hilton – merely a piece of amusing gossip disinterred because Hilton's name has been in the news – and the mud this week.
There may be a bit of turf war going on inside Tory HQ, testosterone-soaked young men peeing on their bit of carpet in a time-honoured fashion visible in most offices. Cats do it too. So did Alastair Campbell in his day.