Give power back to the men and women in the street!

The expenses scandal is still the number one topic of conversation across the country. In offices, on buses, at home, the strength of anger being voiced is like nothing we've heard for a long time. But the Conservatives and David Cameron don't think that anger begins and ends with expenses. We believe it stems from a long, deep dissatisfaction with the way that politics and power works in our country.

The fact is that people feel they have very little control over the world around them and they right. While some areas of our lives offer us choice and control as never before - in media, travel, shopping, entertainment - when it comes to the things we ask from politics and the state, there's a sense that someone else is always pulling the strings, always pulling power away from people.

Today, in a speech to the Open University, David Cameron set out his plans for a radical redistribution of power back to the people: from the state to citizens; from Whitehall to communities; from bureaucracy to democracy. This is a massive, radical change. But we believe that through decentralisation, accountability and transparency we can take power away from the political elite and hand it to the man and woman in the street.

You can watch the speech - and look at the live Q&A blog David did after the speech by clicking on the following link:

http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/05/Put_your_question_to_David_Cameron.aspx