See that link above? That's Peter Oborne talking with David Cameron on BBC Radio 4... now without telling you my political history etc... for me to be excited by a conversation a Conservative leader has with a Daily Mail writer is a bit unusual to say the least. But if you care to listen to it, you hear all the things us social enterprises are meant to be about. Changing society from the bottom up... empowering people at a local level not throwing out edicts from ivory towers driven by grants from faceless quangos.
I want to see change at a local level where currently I have to fight with money wasting time servers waiting for their fat, future crippling pensions just to keep doing what I do. They don't help they hinder. I want to see the young people I work with have a stake in something and I want that something to be a business that makes money and has a good future... a social enterprise. Not bucket shaking begging bowl operations run by ex public sector failures. I live in a town that is way up there in all the bad statistics yet despite the millions being spent by the council and quangos on the ground it feels like nothing's changed.
It doesn't change because the local and national governments just don't see the opportunities for change and for social enterprise. They can't do the bottom up thing because they're at the top. Nationally and locally the decision makers aren't part of the society they claim to be trying to fix. It is just not worth trying to get them to change. It just needs re-building from the bottom up. That is what social enterprise will do.
Yes we can. (Sorry) And we will.
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