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I have always been a libertarian and generally I should be a fan of David Cameron’s Big Society edicts. Of course anything of this nature requires good citizenship and the population to want to work together, help each other and generally help one another.
The reality of this and the ideology are unfortunately, two entirely different things. One only has to look at Parliament Square and the attitude of the squatters and campers. Surely any reasonable person would find it abhorrent to have our seat of power defaced with the excrement and waste on the Square. Let alone the sheer cost incurred and to be incurred putting back into good order.
I cannot conceive in the USA, the White House having anyone use the fountains as a swimming pool or permanent camp on the grass! Free speech is all well and good but why should taxpayer have to be burdened with extra cost for someone’s free speech?
Now when I look at some of the situations we get to arbitrate in on a daily basis then the concept of Big Society looks even more distant.
You would think that people would want to get on together and enhance their investment value, the value of the home or the quality of their lives. But in the same way that the way we live ranges between OCD tidiness through to rubbish tip messy then what people will deal with varies from cooperative to down right unreasonable.
So in your flats and homes perhaps it might be worth just standing back and reflecting on putting yourself in someone else’s shoes!
23 Jul 2010 15:05:39