We need a government that actually helps to build up venitism, the Big Society. The most efficient political system is venitism, where everything is private, there are no taxes at all, there is no parliament, and a powerless infinitesimal government is chosen and supported not by hoi polloi, but by the most generous benefactors.
This means a whole new approach to government and governing. For a long time the way government has worked - top-down, top-heavy, controlling - has frequently had the effect of sapping responsibility, local innovation and civic action.
It has turned many motivated public sector workers into disillusioned, weary puppets of government targets. It has turned able, capable individuals into passive recipients of state help with little hope for a better future. It has turned lively communities into dull, soulless clones of one another.
So we need to turn government completely on its head. The rule of this government should be this: If it unleashes community engagement, we should do it. If it crushes it, we shouldn't.
And these are the three big strands of the Big Society agenda.
* First, social action. The success of the Big Society will depend on the daily decisions of millions of people - on them giving their time, effort, even money, to causes around them. So government cannot remain neutral on that - it must foster and support a new culture of voluntarism, philanthropy, social action.
* Second, public service reform. We've got to get rid of the centralised bureaucracy that wastes money and undermines morale. And in its place we've got give professionals much more freedom, and open up public services to new providers like charities, social enterprises and private companies so we get more innovation, diversity and responsiveness to public need.
* Third, community empowerment. We need to create communities with oomph - neighbourhoods who are in charge of their own destiny, who feel if they club together and get involved they can shape the world around them.
If these are the three strands of the Big Society agenda, there are also three techniques we must use to galvanise them.
* First, decentralisation. We must push power away from central government to local government - and we shouldn't stop there. We should drive it down even further to what Phil Redmond has called the nano level, to communities, to neighbourhoods and individuals.
* Second, transparency. It goes without saying, if we want people to play a bigger part in our society, we need to give them the information. So, for example, by releasing the data about precisely when and where crimes have taken place on the streets, we can give people the power not just to hold the police to account, but to go even further, and take action themselves - for instance, starting a new neighbourhood watch scheme, youth club or an after-school club if they realise that's when most of the trouble begins.
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out there is a golden British revolving door for the movement of Anglokleptocrats between roles as legislators and regulators and the industries affected by the legislation and regulation and pullpeddlers. An unhealthy relationship develops between the private sector and British government, based on the granting of reciprocated privileges to the detriment of Britons, leading to British regulatory capture.
Venitis points out Tony Blair gets ten million euros every year from JPMorgan, just to pullpeddle its Greek-American president Jamie Dimon out of Greek jails for churning the nest eggs of poor Greek workers! His former ministers are not far behind. Steven Byers, a former transport minister, described himself as a cab-for-hire as he asked for 5,000 pounds(5,500 euros, $7,500) each day in exchange for using his influence with the government. Geoff Hoon, formerly defense minister, and Patrician Hewitt, formerly health minister, asked for 3,000 pounds each day.
Venitis notes the U.K. defense giant BAE Systems paid four billion euros in kickbacks to Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia for an eighty billion euros British-Saudi arms deal. The British government abruptly ended its Serious Fraud Office inquiry into BAE. The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office has reportedly accused BAE of bribery in six countries, which should be enough to prompt an inquiry into whether BAE is in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a law banning companies that pay bribes.
Cabinet minister David Laws has stepped down from his high-ranking position in Britain's financial ministry after only 18 day in office, following revelations he had claimed more than 40,000 pounds(47,100 euros, $57,800) of taxpayers' money in expenses to pay rent to his gay partner. Laws was deputy to Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
* Third, providing finance. We believe in paying public service providers by results. It encourages value for money and innovation at the same time. But the potential problem is that you can lock smaller organisations out, because they don't have access to start-up capital. So government has a crucial role to play in bridging the gap - and indeed, more widely, in connecting private capital to investment in social projects.
We have already said we will create a Big Society Bank to help finance social enterprises, charities and voluntary groups through intermediaries. And I can announce today that it will be established using every penny of dormant bank and building society account money allocated to England.
These unclaimed assets, alongside the private sector investment that we will leverage, will mean that the Big Society Bank will - over time - make available hundreds of millions of pounds of new finance to some of our most dynamic social organisations.
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