Philip Blond is to appear alongside Mr Cameron to argue that Britain must be rebuilt around community values.

He has already been nicknamed the "Red Tory" for advising the party to put tackling poverty at the heart of their message, and now wants a new kind of capitalism which gives more people access to markets.

Launching his think tank, ResPublica, with Mr Cameron on Thursday, he will say ordinary working people have been crowded out from wealth and entrepreneurship ...

Mr Blond believes slashing the power of big private-sector firms is the only way to help the less well-off.

He will highlight areas such as banking, supermarkets and public-sector contracts as areas of 'monopoly dominance'.

Mr Blond will argue they should be handed over to social enterprise or community interest companies modelled on the John Lewis partnership, where employees have a stake in the business.

"It's about capitalising on our two biggest assets – the insight and dedication of front-line staff and the engagement and involvement of citizens and communities," he told the Daily Mail.

Mr Blond will condemn the modern state for destroying the respectable working class and promoting a form of multiculturalism which divides rather than integrates society.

"The state has bailed out the banking system but has proved incapable of saving its own citizens from debt and servitude," he will say. "Moreover the state has arrested social mobility and destroyed the structures of working class advancement.

"And in the absence of a common British narrative that unites all peoples and classes; proper respect for other cultures and traditions has collapsed into a state sanctioned multiculturalism that has produced antagonistic communities and licensed the return of extremism and racism." ...

Telegraph  24 November 2009

David Cameron and the 'Red Tory' philosopher

The causes of our present indebtedness go back much further than Brown and Blair.

On a global level, they originated in the abolition of capital controls by Thatcher, Reagan and Clinton. The casino opened its doors in the 1980s, not with the election of New Labour in 1997.

As financial globalisation took off, it created securitised mortgage debt and allowed it to multiply and infect the whole financial system.

As such we allowed a tax-evading, off-balance sheet, offshore economy to speculate with the savings and assets of an onshore, on-balance sheet, tax-paying public.

What is worse it that having lost our savings this industry now expects us – through tax bailouts – to pay again.

Similarly on a national or local level Conservatives need to recognise why so many people have turned to credit. For too many, wages were too low, there was simply no other way to make ends meet.

For the real story of the last 30 years of neo-liberalism is not rising prosperity for all, but rather the utter destruction of the wealth and savings of the bottom half of the population.

Outside of property, 50 per cent of the population now own just 1 per cent of the wealth whereas in 1976 it was 12 per cent.

Similarly wages for those at the bottom have stagnated – and the much-vaunted minimum wage is set so low that the state must subsidise it through tax credits ...

Independent  30 September 2008