Cameron's 'neighbourhood army' plan to help poor
The Tory leader said the professional organisers would work in communities across Britain, supporting active citizens to work together to improve their areas and "banging heads together" to make officials help them. The network would form part of a drive to create a "Big Society" to "restore hope in our future" and solve the problems of what Conservatives term "broken Britain", like crime, drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, incivility and family breakdown. A wide-ranging programme to revive individual citizens' involvement in social action. He aims to devolve decision-making powers from official agencies to voluntary organisations, private companies, citizens and communities.