'Ask NOT what your country can do you...but what gender neutral policy initiatives can be put up for discussion and negotiation within a framework of ZERO fiscal resource allocation...'
'Er!...Any chance that when you've finished with the kids, the cooking and washing up you could help us develop a new waste management recovery system for the borough?'
'Apparently we're to use the budget that's been cut to encourage the volunteers we haven't got because they've been put on schemes to fill in for services that no longer exist!'
The Death of the Big Society: 'Oh! News of our death is exaggerated...lots of life in the old dog yet...big ideas about doing stuff, all kinds of stuff!'
'Now obviously we won't be paying you but would you accept a number of meaningless protestations of gratitude and a variety of shallow platitudes suggesting our appreciation instead.'