Pig Society Part III

David
Cameron took a break today from trying to convince a very very
unconvinced public that the Big Society idea is such a wondrous
agenda, to work for a No vote for AV. So whilst he’s doing that, I
thought i’d continue my series of blogs on the Big Society, by
going one by one through the Tory/Lib Cabinet, and letting you all
know what it is each is doing for the Big Society; what they
volunteer for. Which ones run their public libraries, which ones
have found the time, like the rest of us must do, to run their
local school. I’m almost certain they practice what they preach. It
would be terribly pathetic if they didn’t.

Prime Minister David Cameron, Tory: No
voluntary work declared.

Deputy Prime
Minister Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat: No voluntary
work declared.

Secretary of State for
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs William Hague,
Tory: No voluntary work declared.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne,
Tory: No voluntary work declared

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander,
Liberal Democrat: No voluntary work declared.

Secretary of State for the Home
Department; and Minister for Women and Equalities Theresa May,
Tory: No voluntary work declared.

Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and
Skills, and President of the Board of Trade Vince Cable, Liberal
Democrat: No voluntary work declared.

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan
Smith, Tory: No voluntary work declared.

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat: No voluntary work
declared.

Secretary of State for Health
Andrew Lansley, Tory: No voluntary work declared.
Far too busy selling the NHS to American Private health firms.

Secretary of State for Education Michael
Gove, Tory: No voluntary work declared.

Secretary of State for Communities and Local
Government Eric Pickles: No voluntary work declared.

Secretary of State for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs, Caroline Spelman Tory: “I have
been chair of two local charities MABL and Welcome although in my
new role as a cabinet minister I have had to step back to be a
patron but the first of these has hit a very difficult patch
financially so I have had to spend a lot of time trying to help
secure sustainable funding for MABL which helps the victims of
domestic violence. We are not out of the woods yet and I have yet
more meetings planned this week to try and save it. I have to be in
the department in Whitehall even when parliament is not sitting so
it is not easy to schedule the time but I come home every Friday
and help also at the weekend.” – I fully salute Spelman for this.
Not so much for trying to privatise trees.

Secretary of State for Transport Phillip Hammond,
Tory: No voluntary work declared.

Secretary of State for International Development
Andrew Mitchell, Tory: No voluntary work declared.

Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics,
Media and Sport Jeremy C….Hunt, Tory: No voluntary
work declared.

Secretary of State for
Northern Ireland Owen Paterson, Tory: No voluntary
work declared

Secretary of State for
Scotland Michael Moore, Liberal Democrat: No
voluntary work declared.

Secretary of
State for Wales Cheryl Gillan, Tory: No voluntary
work declared.

Leader of the House of
Commons, Lord Privy Seal Francis Maude, Tory: No
voluntary work declared.

Attorney General
Dominic Grieve, Tory: No voluntary work declared.

Solicitor General Edward Garnier,
Tory: No voluntary work declared.

Chief Whip Patrick McLoughlin, Tory:
No voluntary work declared. So that’s one out of 23. I’m not too
good at maths, never have been, but I believe that’s about 4%. Just
saying…..