The Big Society?

Nanny's so called "Big Society" may or may not be quite as "big" as we were led to believe. Those who publicly "swim against the tide" of whatever the media/politicians deem to be the "big society" will find themselves ostracised.

The departure of Lord Young, David Cameron's "enterprise tsar" and scourge of "red tape and health and safety", may well backfire on the government.

It most certainly can be argued that Lord Young, given that he is a very experienced politician, should have known that by saying that those who have mortgages have "never had it so good" that his words would be twisted by the media.

However, he is technically correct. Those with mortgages and jobs are better off in this recession, with low interest rates, than they would have been in earlier recessions when rates were higher.

He also noted that the spending cuts are not as "harsh" as they are being made out to be. In fact the "cuts" will take government spending back to levels last seen in...wait for it...2007! Also bear in mind that the national debt stands at a staggering £4.8 Trillion, the cuts are but a "gnat's piss" when compared to that figure.

With regard to the loss of 0.5M public sector jobs, this should be taken against a backdrop of a workforce that numbers 30M and the fact that there are many public sector jobs (eg back office diversity officers etc) that are non jobs.

Needless to say, if you have no job or are on a very low income and rely on the state then the recession will bite.

Lord Young though was pointing out that the self flagellation of the government and media, over the depth and harshness of the recession and cuts, may well in fact be overdone.

His straight talking advice and commonsense wrt cutting bureaucracy and rolling back the state (which is responsible for getting the country into this mess) will be badly missed.

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Health and Safety - We Should Be Allowed To Be Idiots

Further kudos to Lord Young of Graffham who, in his report to David Camerion about Nanny's health and safety nonsense etc, has also stated that the public should be able to challenge council decisions to ban events on grounds of health and safety.

Lord Young described the current health and safety regulations as a "music hall joke".

Lord Young wants local authorities, in future, to explain their decisions to ban events on health and safety grounds in writing.

Lord Young was quoted by the Daily Mail:

"This sort of nonsense has come from the last government trying to create a nanny state and trying to keep everybody in cotton wool.

Frankly if I want to do something stupid and break my leg or neck, that's up to me. I don't need a council to tell me not to be an idiot. I can be an idiot all by myself."

Well said!

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Wankers

I am well pleased to see that Lord Young of Graffham has issued a report (as commissioned by David Cameron) that condemns ambulance chasing lawyers, and calls for curbs on the the aggressive advertising used by these lawyers.

Lord Young is of the view that members of the public are encouraged by unscrupulous lawyers to pursue frivolous personal injury and negligence cases, while "well-meaning" people are deterred from organising voluntary activities.

He notes that the industry has created a "particularly pernicious" climate of fear that puts off well-meaning members of the public from organising voluntary activities in case they are sued if an accident happens.

Lord Young said:

"People who seek to do good in our society should not fear litigation as a result of their actions."

Needless to say, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers doesn't like Lord Young's conclusions.

This organ has released a statement claiming that changes to health and safety legislation will result in a culture of "carelessness and injury".

Wankers!

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Nanny To Ban Health And Safety?

I am pleased to see that Lord Young of Graffham, tasked with reviewing health and safety rules, holds the health and safety rules which prevent the police and rescue services from actually rescuing people in as much contempt as the rest of us do.

He told the Times that the emergency services were "paid for doing a job that involves risk" and legislation should not be "an excuse for inaction".

He also holds seems to hold the compensation culture, and ambulance chasing "personal injury" lawyers in absolute contempt.

Good!

Muiris Lyons, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, postulated to the BBC the rather bizarre theory that personal injury lawyers want to see accidents reduced:

"Our organisation is all about trying to reduce the incidents of injuries and I'm sure there is common ground there [with the review].

But where people are needlessly injured, through others' fault, they should be able to obtain access to justice."

How exactly does a cash payment bring someone back from the dead, or heal a broken leg (which will have already been attended to by the NHS)?

I will follow the progress of Lord Young's review, and its actual tangible outcomes, with interest.

I do not doubt Lord Young's integrity, nor his desire to end the worst excesses of the Nanny state. However, he has an uphill battle as there are many vested interests who will do their utmost to keep their petty dictatorships and small minded rules going.

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A Green Shoot of Commonsense or A Little Weed?

Could it be, albeit in the first days of a "fresh" government, that we are witnessing a green shoot of commonsense?

The government says that it wants to review health and safety laws, in order to check the "growth of compensation culture".

Lord Young will be leading the study, and wants advertisements for personal injury claims firms to be banned.

Unsurprisingly ambulance chasing lawyers (who earn fat fees from insurance settlements) have responded by saying that "compensation culture" is a "myth".

Well they would say that wouldn't they?

Unfortunately, as loyal readers of this site know, the issue runs deeper than a specific piece of legislation banning a particular activity.

The disease of risk aversion and health and safety runs so deep in the body of our country, and the minds of the jobsworths (to whom we give excessive powers), that people make their own "interpretations" of the law (even if the law is actually not in place) and ban whatever takes their fancy on the grounds of "health and safety"/risk.

The issue lies in the mindset of the jobsworths (councils, teachers, bureaucrats etc) who set the bans, and the sheeple who allow them to get away with it.

It will take more than a review by Lord Young to change that mindset.

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