Gross Materialistic Urges

The man appointed to improve the public mind on the subject of Daveybloke's Big Society thingy has partially abdicated his tsardom, having decided that working for nothing three days a week is strictly for those who have fewer non-executive directorships to take care of than he does. Despite having the enviable task of determining "how to free ordinary people from the daily grind to give them more time to do voluntary work and involve themselves in their communities", there have been suggestions that Lord Wei of Shoreditch has failed to make sufficient impression on the public's notoriously self-centred and unmutual attitudes. These suggestions may possibly be related to the fact that virtually nothing had been heard of the creature until he made headlines by announcing his intention to do even less than he was doing already. According to a Whitehall spokesbeing, Daveybloke (or whichever of his servants deals with the part-time help) somehow failed to inform Lord Wei that his post would be unpaid until the night before he started; which certainly says a good deal about the value Daveybloke actually places on people who work for free.