Cameron’s call to arms for Britain’s Big Society
DAVID CAMERON shrugged off gloom about the looming spending cuts yesterday, with a call to arms for people to become “doers and go-getters” to help him build the “Big Society”.
In an upbeat speech to close the Conservative conference, the Prime Minister tried to set out a vision to put Britain back on its feet – while admitting people were “anxious” about the services to be slashed and the jobs lost.
It was a vision that returned to his much-criticised “Big Society” theme, but one which echoed Lord Kitchener’s famous wartime rallying cry by telling the public: “Your country needs you.”
People were urged not only to set up schools, join neighbourhood groups and run local parks, but also encouraged to set up their own businesses, to restore prosperity.
Mr Cameron said: “It takes two. It takes two to build that strong economy.
