I just popped on the telly to catch up on the news while I drank my mid-morning coffee. David CaMoron was giving a speech in the city, launching his idea for the big-society bank. Never have I heard more erroneous crap, and never have I become angry more quickly. Up until that point I was in a reasonably good mood – the sun is shining here in Charlton – but as soon as I heard CaMoron spouting his usual bollocks about the advantages of the private sector and charity over the state sector, and speaking as if it was just ‘common sense’, I flew into a rage.

Let’s cut the crap. The reason why the Tories want to reduce the state sector is ultimately so they can cut taxes. We’ve already seen them handing out tax cuts to the mega-rich, which at a time when benefits and care budgets are being slashed, is something I see as no less than criminal. CaMoron never really admits to his real reasons for his big society idea; he cannot be idiotic enough to truly believe in the old capitalist myth that competition drives up standards, and that stuff will improve when deregulated. He thinks that things like personal assistance and care should be handled by charities rather than the state, not because charities are somehow better at it but in order to enable the state to wash their hands of people like me. He expects us crips to accept hand-outs from some charity and be grateful, rather than supporting us through the state like dignified human beings. If things like personal care, and for that matter healthcare and education, are run by the state, the prime motive is to increase standards; if such things are run privately, their prime motive becomes profit, corners are cut and the wellbeing of service users becomes a means to an end rather tan the end in itself. This is not about saving money – he is, after all, spending six hundred million on this asinine idea – but the general repositioning of those who rely on state services in society.

I refuse to see myself as a charity case; I refuse to be patronized, rendered into some untermensch while CaMoron satisfies his rich friends. I am a member of society, and need support from the state which is an extension of that society. I refuse to let this unelected Tory shite split up state-run, coordinated support systems, replacing them with a loose network of charities in a hair-brained scheme which is just a fig-leaf for Victorian Lessez-faire philosophy. This scheme is founded on selfishness, elitism and greed, and to see CaMoron try to palm it off as something noble and altruistic makes me very angry indeed. The big society is no more than the justification of greed, intolerance and selfishness; platitudinous bulshit to salve the consciousnesses of the rich while they smile as they pay less tax; and the green light for condescending charities to think they are doing good as they feed cripples strapped to their beds gruel. I refuse to let him continue with this harmful, intolerant scheme.