For free for David.

So David Cameron wants or at least hopes that every single one of us will volunteer for something out of our love of community, unlike his previous female conservative incumbent who didn’t think such a thing existed. Surprisingly these opposing views have one thing in common. In Maggie’s time the unions were all about community, sticking together etc, but Maggie’s problem was she wanted them to work for less and community was keeping wages up. Now though Dave recognises we love our friends and neighbours and will gladly spend our off time manning surveillance cameras, cleaning streets, maybe pedalling dynamos for street lighting and taking care of care in the community types. I’m thinking I might be a volunteer brain surgeon. No doubt his momentary beliefs, rather like you can never get a tennis court when Wimbledon’s on, have focused on all the things we recently did for free for Sport Relief. So rather than David having a different, warmer hearted view of community he has hit on a cracking wheeze, identical but even better than Maggie’s. Get them to work, ot for less but for nothing! It’s like asking us to believe that slaves weren’t slaves at all, they were just volunteering. Yes our black African brothers were so imbued with volunteering spirit they packed themselves by the hundred in VSO chartered sailing ships eager to pick cotton from morn till night for plantation owners who, equally community minded, didn’t let them starve. All pull together, that’s the spirit! If we all pull together we’ll be able to get our poor old George Osborn out of the fix he’ll be in if the Conservatives win the election. Don’t look at it as slave labour, look at it as helping the country pay for bankers bonuses by volunteering your time. For free.