Today's speech by Alan Johnson the Heath Secrtary illustrates what is wrong with this Government.
In response to recent speech by David Cameron, Mr Johnson states that it is the government not the individual that is responsible for solving what is wrong in their lives.
Government and voluntary organisations have roles to play but it seems clear to me that primarily the individual has personal responsibility for their own actions. Johnson makes his comments in relation to obesity, but they would apply equally to knife crime, unemployment, anti social behaviour etc etc. Without restoring the idea that we have some responsibility over our own actions then we will not be able to solve society's ills.
