SIR – If the ‘Big Society’ is as big as David Cameron says it is, why does he have to keep pointing it out?

Is it because he knows very well that the majority of us realise that it is a cover for cuts and privatisation?

The author Philip Pullman has spoken of a greedy ghost that haunts the boardrooms and council chambers and committee rooms from which the world is run these days.

This greedy ghost is market fundamentalism, and it is corrupting our public services, which in the words of Mr Pullman “used to be free of the commercial pressure to win or to lose, to survive or to die, which is the very essence of the religion of the market”.

I agree with Mr Pullman that “little by little we’re waking up to the truth about the market fanatics and their creed”, but how many of us in Worcester are prepared to do something with the truth?

How many of us are prepared to oppose cuts and privatisation that may do terrible damage to the fabric of everything decent and humane.

Neil Laurenson, Worcester Green Party