David Cameron makes speech on how power can be devolved to local communities
David Cameron makes speech on how power can be devolved to local communities; ENGLAND: London: Bethnal Green: The Young Foundation:
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David Cameron MP (Conservative leader) speech SOT
- I am honoured to speak at the Young Foundation / Michael Young stood for so much of what is great about our country: the spirit of enterprise, and enterprise for social progress / It is entirely right that there is a foundation to promote his legacy / Because Lord Young was that essentially English thing - an institution-builder / He recognised that we live, not as isolated individuals, nor as undifferentiated members of the mass - but as friends, neighbours, colleagues, families / We exist in our particular and personal relationships
- Institutions - whether churches or schools or businesses or charities - are the means by which we formalise our relationships for social purposes / That's why I can say - without daring to hijack Michael Young's memory for my purpose - that institutions are central to the Conservative vision for the 21st century / Let me try and prove that / Last week in Manchester I made a speech in which I launched a small institution myself / The Conservative Co-operative Movement / Co-ops offer a really positive answer to one of the great questions of public service reform - how to inject dynamism and consumer focus without losing public ethos and accountability / Co-ops can do this because they are independent but democratic public bodies /They also offer a real alternative or complement to commercial firms - food co-ops, for instance, are one great way to challenge the domination of the big supermarkets / Of course the co-op is a very old idea / But I believe that its time has come, just as it has come for a range of related ideas about the institutions of local democracy
- I have described the 20th century as the 'bureaucratic age' / With huge advances in communications and travel, it became possible to concent...
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