In the past few days, there have been complementary efforts to set out a coalition vision in speeches from Nick Clegg and David Cameron. The former says both mean the same: "David Cameron's eloquent description of what he calls the Big Society is what I would call the Liberal Society". The core of what we might therefore call a "Big Liberal Society" (BLS) is a belief that power is too centralised. Nobody in either coalition party will disagree with that, but what should replace the central state?
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