MASS LBP hosts "Building the Big Society: An evening with Phillip Blond"

3rd & 7 37yd

Argues the welfare state moved people outside society. Only interest of people was around themselves.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:00:17 AM
Individuals liberated from society were free to self-satisfy with no regard to one another. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 12:01:12 AM
This created "proxy politics" of race, gender an took them out of a sense of common cause. This demanded an economic response, manifested in Margaret Thatcher.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:01:39 AM
Thatcher was the ultimate expression of political and economic individualism. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 12:02:00 AM
Created a society where people win or lose, and then requires policing of rights.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:02:26 AM
Blond argues the postwar left and right were driven by the same ideology of liberalism.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:03:03 AM
@DrAnnaDixon and, of course, Marmot Review suggests 'health' is about control & capability #BigSociety #health

by russell_collins via twitter 3/29/2011 12:03:31 AM
The origins of the destruction of society is this liberalism

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:04:04 AM
There's a complicity between left and right post-war ideology. Both based on a shared notion of liberal libertarianism. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 12:04:15 AM
(crowd feels a bit tense)

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:04:23 AM
We need social conservation, not social conservatism. Family breakdown is indisputably wrong. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 12:05:35 AM
We need new social and economic arrangements. Wealth and power flow into hands of wealthy or global businesses, most of which pay little tax.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:06:51 AM
We need a radically new economic model. The benefits are to the top .01% of society. Tax burdens falling to the middle class. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 12:07:04 AM
Our politics and society is increasingly rigged in these two extremes (left and right)

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:07:30 AM
Canadian red Toryism was an inspiration for Blond's thought. That's the name of the book. This is radical to a UK Tory. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 12:11:35 AM
Blond notes that despite huge increase in gvt funding, productivity went down.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:13:21 AM
The state became ever more dysfunctional. Spending more to do less. Babies battered and noone could take responsibility. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 12:13:32 AM
Watch video: Author, Phillip Blond addresses Toronto audience.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 12:13:41 AM
@remarkk - got you feeding into the event liveblog: bit.ly/eden1k. Thank you! #bigsociety

by Samara via twitter 3/29/2011 12:25:57 AM

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