The bloated quangos sucking our country dry
WHILE the four-months-old US administration has caused some distraction for disturbing the current international order by endeavouring to rebalance trade, a real revolution in governance is taking place.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headed by Elon Musk has revealed what most of us suspected: our huge deficits are a function of government-led grift. Billions of dollars of quasi-criminal spending is being uncovered.
This explains why taxpayers are paying ever more for ever less; in the worst-case scenario we are paying ever more to feed a beast intent on destroying our civilisation.
The whole piece is well worth reading. Follow the money they say - we should and we should vote accordingly.
Here is a list of quangos published by the Adam Smith Institute.
They employ close to 400,000 people on a budget of £390billion per year, nearly 300 per cent more than our total deficit and over a third of our entire yearly £1.3trillion government spend.
Added to this richly funded, unaccountable, relatively new branch of government, we must add the partially or fully state-funded charitable sector, which is in effect the PR arm of the vitality-sapping UK quangocracy.
Nearly a third of the £100billion budget for UK charities comes from the government. Around £30billion is spent by the government on ‘charities’.
WHILE the four-months-old US administration has caused some distraction for disturbing the current international order by endeavouring to rebalance trade, a real revolution in governance is taking place.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headed by Elon Musk has revealed what most of us suspected: our huge deficits are a function of government-led grift. Billions of dollars of quasi-criminal spending is being uncovered.
This explains why taxpayers are paying ever more for ever less; in the worst-case scenario we are paying ever more to feed a beast intent on destroying our civilisation.
The whole piece is well worth reading. Follow the money they say - we should and we should vote accordingly.
Here is a list of quangos published by the Adam Smith Institute.
They employ close to 400,000 people on a budget of £390billion per year, nearly 300 per cent more than our total deficit and over a third of our entire yearly £1.3trillion government spend.
Added to this richly funded, unaccountable, relatively new branch of government, we must add the partially or fully state-funded charitable sector, which is in effect the PR arm of the vitality-sapping UK quangocracy.
Nearly a third of the £100billion budget for UK charities comes from the government. Around £30billion is spent by the government on ‘charities’.
11 comments:
With those sums of money involved you could make a reasonable argument that the NGOs and charities have escaped democratic control and formed a second government.
Reproduction by binary fission.
It's amazing how charitable we have become as a nation. When I was young, we only seemed to be interested in disabled children, whose plastic effigies waited to receive spare change in high street shop doorways, and in seaside towns there were decommissioned mines you could put pennies into to help disabled sailors.
None of the organisations concerned wanted to change society. I assume they just spent the money on stuff like wheelchairs, accommodation, and hand-outs.
Today, it's been announced that Starmer has given UNRWA another 13 million he found down the back of a sofa. I guess it's a small price to pay to keep the Pakistani voters onside.
DJ - I agree, it's a second government and so entangled with the bureaucracy that Parliament has lost the ability or the inclination to do anything about it. Starmer appears to see it as the right direction.
Sam - I remember those plastic effigies of disabled children. It was a healthier and more involving approach where expectations were clearer. Now the professional bureaucracy, glossy marketing and particularly the fashionable politics have killed off something important.
13 million to UNRWA eh? He doesn't even know where it will go and doesn't care.
Hey Elon, how about a working holiday in the sunny UK?
Jannie - we certainly need someone to tackle our version of the problem.
Good grief, that list is extraordinary, even though some of the things on it aren't really Quangos (the Tate?). But seriously, what the blue blazes does the Geospatial Commission do, and why are we paying for it? Whatever it is, I am sure it will have plenty of well-paid staff, all with car allowances, laptops, IPhones, assistants, and excellent pensions. It's Parkinson's Law come to life, isn't it.
Peter - it is an extraordinary list and I can't quite work of what the Geospatial Commission does. Possibly they can't either, but no doubt it pays well and that's the important part.
Whatever happened to the Ferrets in a Sack Commission?
Just how important DOGE has been, not just for the US. One can only hope for something similar here.
I recall some 30 years ago chatting to my brother who as a young man was a temp at some various Civil Service departments. His recounting of the huge number of useless jobs there was remarkable. In one such, he stopped someone in a corridor and asked what the organisation actually did? After some thought, the man said he really didn't know
dearieme - I'm not sure, but I don't think they were sacked.
James - yes, it may foster much more awareness of just how crooked it all is.
Tammly - I came across a chap who did nothing but go to meetings and it was well known in the department that he did nothing else. He probably wasn't the only one.
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