Geoffrey Lean at The Telegraph writes about the time he was invited to head up a Quango for licensing zoos. The headline is a rather sensationalised version of what really happened, so don't read as much into this story as the headline seems to want you to!
However it does raise a valid point: what are the criteria used by those seeking heads of Quangos? Knowledge or experience of the organisation's proposed area of activity does not appear to be one of them.
Showing posts with label Quangos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quangos. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Garbage goes in the bin
Perhaps as many as a hundred and eighty (update: we now know it will be 192) quangos are to be scrapped shortly, and many others reformed/combined. The full list of this wave will be published tomorrow, but it looks almost certain to include such wastrels as the Health Protection Agency, the School Food Trust and the Sustainable Development Commission.
There are plenty more.
Good riddance to what will be largely if not entirely rubbish, I say! We have survived as a species for untold generations without needing an "agency" to tell us what to do and to override the democratically-elected representatives of communities with their diktats.
Regional Assemblies, nannying outfits and similar can therefore go without anyone in those communities mourning their passing, as well as all those sector-specific intrusive outfits that no sensible society needs or wants. No-one elected them, and they cannot therefore be kicked out of office by the populace, at the ballot box.
All we'll need to do next is to get out of the EU and that will be the end of nannying and dictatorial busybodies trying to rule our lives and costing a fortune in the process.
There are plenty more.
Good riddance to what will be largely if not entirely rubbish, I say! We have survived as a species for untold generations without needing an "agency" to tell us what to do and to override the democratically-elected representatives of communities with their diktats.
Regional Assemblies, nannying outfits and similar can therefore go without anyone in those communities mourning their passing, as well as all those sector-specific intrusive outfits that no sensible society needs or wants. No-one elected them, and they cannot therefore be kicked out of office by the populace, at the ballot box.
All we'll need to do next is to get out of the EU and that will be the end of nannying and dictatorial busybodies trying to rule our lives and costing a fortune in the process.
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Visualising Quangos
Well done to The Guardian for publishing this graphic illustration of the UK's multitudinous quangos! Use the buttons at the foot of this Scribd (Flash-based) widget to zoom in or out, scroll with the mouse, and see for yourself.
Note that this contains only those quangos ("Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations", to give them their full and correct title: the Guardian's writer missed a bit) that receive £25 million a year or more in direct funding from government, and excludes non UK-wide quangos that are solely concerned with Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
UK Quangos Visualization - InformationIsBeautiful.net
Note that this contains only those quangos ("Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations", to give them their full and correct title: the Guardian's writer missed a bit) that receive £25 million a year or more in direct funding from government, and excludes non UK-wide quangos that are solely concerned with Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
UK Quangos Visualization - InformationIsBeautiful.net
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