Influential Conservative commentator TimMontgomerie replied that he thought this was a controversial thing for a PPS to say, given they are expected to be loyal to the government.
TimMontgomerie, the website's editor, said the Tories should be worried they were seen as the party of "the pensioner who has already made it rather than the young person looking for work".
It was nothing to do with policy being too left or right wing, and everything to do with presentation or, as TimMontgomerie argued, a lack of "basic professionalism" at the top of the party.
TimMontgomerie said that although the concept was useful in government it was "inexcusable" that the Big Society had not been tested in a focus group or polling before it had been launched as an election pledge.