Senior Tory MP David Davis was recently overheard dismissing Cameron’s ‘big society’ as ‘“a Blairite dressing” for plans by the coalition plans to trim the state.’ He continued:

“The corollary of the big society is the smaller state. If you talk about the small state, people think you’re Attila the Hun. If you talk about the big society, people think you’re Mother Teresa.”

He’s right, y’know.