I fear John Tizard is being overoptimistic about the Tory government's views on Civil Society. He is quite right that local government has a really important role in supporting civil society and that the budget cuts to Councils are making that role impossible.
Yet the whole "Big Society" debacle actually demonstrates that the Tories really do have an engrained culture that local government simply has no value. Part of that ideology, which is so embedded that it is not even articulated, are that the public sector in general is simply a burden on the private sector in the manner that right wing tropes such as "Tax Freedom Day" imply. They assume that running public institutions needs no skill and very little money and that anyone working for the public sector is essentially a parasite.
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