Get down with the Defra wiki
Oh dear it looks likes Milliband’s recent attempt to “get down with the nerds kids” has backfired. Guido and co-conspirators have been playing around with Defra’s attempt at a Wiki on an environmental contract - see the results here and here
Although I appreciate Defra’s idea, the execution is wide of the mark. I think it is important that people realise their responsibilities. However the Defra submission is (inevitably) in Government speak (Does anyone else hate the word “stakeholders”!), and outlines no new ideas, listing a number of things the Government has to provide by law anyway (e.g. disposal of waste, recycling etc). This of course raises the question if the Government has to do these things, how do you enforce these responsibilities.
November 24th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
[...] Looks like Blair’s “rights with responsibilities” agenda is going to take physical form with a real social contract. We saw some of these ideas floated back in September in Milliband’s doomed wiki experiment, where Dave showed us his environmental contract. But this social contract will extend the idea to health, police and education. One example given by the Guardian is that you will only have a hip operation if you lose weight. [...]