Tory MP (Key ally of David Cameron) calls for local government planning to be replaced by 'chaos'

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Source: The Guardian

Toby Helm and Richard Rogers
Saturday December 18 2010 21.30 GMT

A key member of David Cameron's inner circle was at the centre of controversy tonight after he was filmed stating that the prime minister and his deputy, Nick Clegg, want their "people power" revolution to unleash "chaotic" effects across local communities. The comments, by Nicholas Boles, Tory MP for Grantham and Stamford, were made 10 days ago during a debate in Westminster hosted by the polling organisation Ipsos MORI. During a question-and-answer session on the "big society", Boles – viewed by Cameron's circle as an "outrider" for imaginative thinking on policy – was asked why he seemed to prefer "chaos" to central planning of services.

Boles replied that he, Cameron and Clegg did not believe in central planning and that it would be a good thing to have different communities offering differing types of services, even if the appearance was chaotic. "I mean, bluntly, there comes a question in life," he told the audience. "Do you believe planning works? That clever people sitting in a room can plan how people's communities should develop, or do you believe it can't work? I believe it can't work, David Cameron believes it can't, Nick Clegg believes it can't. Chaotic therefore in our vocabulary is a good thing.

"Chaotic is what our cities are when we see how people live, where restaurants spring up, where they close, where people move to. Would you like to live in a world where you could predict any of that? I certainly wouldn't. So I want there to be chaotic in the sense I want lots of organisations doing different things, in different areas."

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Tonight Labour accused the coalition of destroying local services for ideological reasons. Shadow local government secretary Caroline Flint said: "Nick Boles' alarming comments reveal how out of touch David Cameron and Nick Clegg's government is with ordinary people. They want to bring chaos to towns and cities simply to satisfy their own ideological curiosity." Jon Cruddas, Labour MP for Dagenham, who wants Labour to develop its own vision of a "big society" based on strong local institutions, said: "This reveals that the Tory approach to the big society is literally a recipe for chaos, bordering on anarchy."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/18/coalition-local-planning-boles-chaos

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Sounds like the ConDem libertarian Teahadist experiment is well underway there. Soon the UK will become a Teahadists' utopia, apart from the gun ownership regulations and strict impartiality in the media rules, that is.

It's well worth going to the full article and having a read of the comments.

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1. He means "Spontaneous" and Spontaneity. but is lacking the language skills.... Not chaotic Someone

tell him chaotic is not the word he is looking for....

""Chaotic is what our cities are when we see how people live, where restaurants spring up, where they close, where people move to. Would you like to live in a world where you could predict any of that? I certainly wouldn't. So I want there to be chaotic in the sense I want lots of organisations doing different things, in different areas."

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2. Oh, but they're trying to get rid of media impartiality too

There was a thread this morning quoting from a Guardian article:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x32678

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/mark-thompson-bbc-fox-news

Mark Thompson, the BBC's director general, said British broadcasters should be free to launch an equivalent to Fox News in the UK because existing rules to guarantee impartiality in television were becoming outdated in the era of the internet.

Thompson, while speaking at a Whitehall seminar on impartiality in broadcasting, said that as the distinction between the web and television collapses, it no longer makes sense for public service broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, to have a "monopoly" over the airwaves.

The director general said: "There was a logic in allowing impartial broadcasters to have a monopoly of the broadcasting space. But in the future, maybe there should be a broad range of choices? Why shouldn't the public be able to see and hear, as well as read, a range of opinionated journalism and then make up their own mind what they think about it?

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