Joined-Up Thingy

The harmful effects of decades of Socialist interventionism have been horribly laid bare in a poll which shows that almost eighty per cent of people claim to have donated to a charity in the past year, while only a quarter feel they should be "encouraged to give up some of their time to help support public services". Assuming that the charitable donations were not the thrifty sort made by the corporate community (tax dodges, in Standard English), this shows a Common People horribly mired in the sort of thinking that leads to high taxes, British Rail, the NHS, taxpayer-maintained trees and other errors. The cause of this lamentable indolence is, presumably, the fact that the said Common People still have too much money and too little time on their hands. Happily, this is all going to change.

Despite the convenient dovetailing which has spurred conspiracy theorists into a frenzy of self-nonsufficient uncharity, Daveybloke the Cuddly Conservative has "rejected the suggestion that his mission is a cover for spending cuts". Daveybloke has pointed out that his Big Society thingy was a thingy before the general election, and that his programme to kick half a million people out of work was a thingy after the general election, though obviously he would have mentioned it during the campaign had he been able.