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“Citizen Dave,” headlines the Independent. In an ironic reference to the popular British 70’s sitcom Citizen Smith, whose hero is a deluded Communist revolutionary, the London daily sizes up David Cameron’s first speech as PM at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, 6 October. On the eve on some of the biggest budget cuts in living memory, including a controversial one billion slash in child allowances, Cameron set out his revolutionary plan to scrap the big state for the Big Society. “He hailed a radical shift in power in which nurses formed co-operatives, parents set up schools and GPs ran the NHS,” the London daily writes. Declaring his government the “new radicals… breaking apart the old system,” Cameron also echoed first world war general Lord Kitchener saying: "Your country needs you."
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