"It was certainly the Big Society out in force!" That's how I described today's march against the proposed new stadium and 'sports village' for Wycombe to Steve Baker the local MP. You can read his own account here:
The Big Society is often described as one of the more difficult of David Cameron's manifesto promises to describe. What and who are the Big Society? Commentators in the left wing press will never understand the concept because it is something they are scared of. The Big Society is nothing more or less than allowing us all to decide our own destiny, to remove state control and to decentralise power back to the people. That's to say the destruction of everything the left hold sacred; or to put it another way, the abolition of the nanny state which ballooned under Labour.
With respect to the stadium proposal, people have been critical of Steve's stance of non-interference. He has set out his argument in the Press on numerous occasions, but in short his argument is that it is for society as a whole to decide whether it wants something or not. It is not for Government to interfere and thus his stance has been to stand back and let the people decide.
Those who were at today's parade were members of the Big Society. And they said No.
