BSS – this drives me crazy. i’m surrounded by people fighting for their rights to basic services and to protect our welfare state (that my parents generation worked so hard to give me).

by voluntary agencies giving redundancy notices to their staff at the same time as wondering how they are going to deal with the consequences of cuts for those who rely on them.

and by so called national representatives of voluntary action (probably soon to be rebranded again, as social enterprise), brown nosing at the table, in the hope for crumbs of money or power (no change there then).

while the real BIG SHOW of vested interests (bankers, politicians, corporate business, “the market”, feel free to add your hit list to mine…..) continue to feather their nests and engage in dirty dealing – a bit of which wiki leaks has just shown us.

I am boycotting anything that has the label of BIG SOCIETY. I am not going to be distracted by such a vacuous and cynical attempt to hide the privatisation of public services, through cheap or free labour. Or waste my energy attending to a kite which will not fly.

Don’t be fooled. get on with something more productive – like local campaigns to resist the cuts and alternatives to the broken politics and policies of this and previous governments.