Guy Aitchison (London, OK): Yesterday, the Social Market Foundation released its latest publication AntiSocial Britain and the Challenge of Citizenship, by former Labour MP Peter Bradley. OurKingdom couldn't be at the launch as it had been "booked out for weeks" - anti-social Britain, it seems, has never been so popular! They would not even let me stand at the back. From what I can gather, Bradley's main proposal is to use the tax system to reward those who volunteer for community service and penalize those who do not. But won't this ensure that no part of society, not even its charitable activities, will be outside the marketplace? The "challenge of citizenship" here seems to be how to privatise it. If so this is another way of trying to turn us all into consumers.
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