You've Been QUANGOED!
by
Leo McKinstry
[Daily Mail -Campaign]
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SET BRITAIN
FREE!
Costing billions -unelected and packed with cronies obsessed with
enforcing a liberal agenda-QUANGOS define the Blair decade.
PUBLIC faith in politics has never been
lower than it is today. And ,as the Mail is highlighting in
IT's 'Set Britain FREE'
campaign
-a central reason for this process of
disillusion is that we no longer feel we have much control over those
who govern us.
Democracy is failing badly because our
votes are rapidly becoming an irrelevance. The influence of the ballot
box over civic rulers is rapidly diminishing.
The onward march of European
integration is a key element in this process, whereby our national
sovereignty is being destroyed by the elite of the
EU COMMISSION
But equally important, I believe is the
phenomenal growth of the
QUANGO STATE
-which has resulted in large swathes of
our public life being taken over by unaccountable - self-selecting
bodies.
Across our whole society, whether it be
in
EDUCATION
ECONOMY
OR
ENVIRONMENT
-major decisions are not taken by
[accountable] politicians but by shadowy commissioners, who owe their
positions to
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE
-rather than popular support
Indeed, there are direct parallels
between the rise of the quango-cracy and the increasing power of the
EUROPEAN UNION.
BOTH are unelected. BOTH
are obsessed with pursuing an agenda of political correctness. BOTH
are destructively wasteful and contemptuous of the needs of the
taxpayer.
Wallowing in self-satisfaction, both
see then selves as [progressive and are inclined to sneer at attitudes
of ordinary voters, who are generally regarded as dangerously
reactionary, xenophobic and small-minded with their attachments to
issues like the
FAMILY and NATIONHOOD
Undemocratic
So how have QUANGOS been able to spread
like bindweed, entangling everything in their path?
In opposition in the 1990's Tony Blair
regularly attacked the Tory Government for expanding the influence of
QUANGOS, particularly in
SOCIAL HOUSING
SCHOOLS
TRANSPORT
AND THE
NHS
But, as so often with Blair, this
turned out to be a hollow rhetoric.
Blair's increase in non-elected
officialdom has been on a scale far beyond anything the Conservatives
achieved in their 18 years of power. The rise of the ultra-liberal
quangocrat has been one of the central features of the
BLAIR DECADE
According to the Government's own
figures, there are now
882
non-elected central government bodies,
an increase of almost
300
during the past ten years.
These QUANGOS directly employ 90,000
staff and are spending a phenomenal
£124,000,000,000
-of
STATE FUNDS
[Taxpayers money]
-almost 4 times the amount spent on
DEFENCE
[Now we know why our troops have been
needlessly dying many injured some their lives devastated for the rest
of their lives because of the lack of essential protective equipment
whereas our allies have realised the importance of putting the needs of
the Armed Forces uppermost with their own Military Hospitals and later
care for the rest of their lives.
And all this in New Labour's
obsessive mantra of
CONTROL
We are now a country divided into two
camps - one a parasitic creature which devours the wealth of the nation
and the other that is constantly having to make great sacrifices -even
the lives and comfort of the sick-the infirm and the elderly because of
the excessive waste of resources on patronage.]
Among the many new organisations
created by Labour have been the
Learning and Skills Council
-which has a budget of
£8.5 BILLION
(though the major employers complain,
vociferously that the workplace skills have never been so poor)
[This is more than the EU REBATE which
Tony Blair handed back last year of £7 BILLION and we know what the
greater number of the population thought of THAT.]
The Food Standards Agency
which swallows
£143 million
-telling us (not with much success) how
to avoid obesity,
The Regional Development Agencies
-whose biggest job creation scheme lie
within their own sprawling bureaucracies.
But the real number of QUANGOS could be
far higher. One recent
INDEPENDENT STUDY
-argued that the real number of
central quangos has actually risen to
2,560
-an increase of
41 per cent
-since
1997
[PATRONAGE GALORE!]
MANY ,OF COURSE ARE POINTLESS TO THE
POINT OF ABSURDITY.
Were you aware, for example that the
taxes subsidise the
British Potato Council
-a body which actively promotes the
eating of crisps and chips in schools?
OR
How about the
Football Licensing Authority
-whose sole purpose is 'to ensure that
all spectators regardless of age, gender, ethnic origin, disability, or
the team they support are able to attend sports grounds in
SAFETY
CONFORT
AND
SECURITY?
And that's even before we address the
massive extension of the network of unelected local bodies which now
proliferate in modern BRITAIN, such as the plethora of
CRIME REDUCTION PARTNERSHIPS
[We have more
CCTV than any other
country and the greatest CRIME and
the largest PRISON population and
our once familiar BOBBIE -On-THE-BEAT
on our streets has now become an endangered species.]
To Continue:
[There are ALSO]
HEALTHY ACTION ZONES
EXCELLENCE IN CITIES CLUSTERS
AND
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL BOARDS
This march of the QUANGO STATE is
profoundly undemocratic. When major bodies are spending money they
SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE
-TO THE PUBLIC
But no such mechanism exists in
QUANGOLAND
-where the self -serving officials can
carry on regardless of their failure, promoting epic
incompetence
No wonder then, that many QUANGOS
have such a shameful record.
THE CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY
-for instance , has become a by-word for
mismanagement -worsening the poverty of the very families it is meant to
HELP
Similarly, the
ASSETS RECOVERY AGENCY
-which was set up in 2003 to
recover the proceeds of criminal activity, spent
£60 million
-while grabbing just
£8 million
[At a loss of
£52 million]
-from law-breakers.
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Abolished
Perhaps the best way of assessing any official body in
Britain is to ask yourself whether, if it was abolished over night, we
would be poorer for its absence. Well, if most of the
QUANGOS
-were abolished
TOMORROW
-the public would hardly notice, still less mourn.
The reason? much of the activities are involved in
creating work for themselves
RATHER THAN DELIVERING
GENUINE SERVICES
For example, the vast new
EQUALITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
which starts work in October this year
through a merger of bodies like the
COMMISSION FOR RACIAL EQUALITY
THE
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION
AND THE
DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
-will seek to build an atmosphere of
GRIEVANCE
-in order to justify its own existence,
inventing new causes of complaints, hyping up discontent, holding
over-blown summits, continually hectoring business and ordinary members
of the public.
BUT New Labour loves the
QUANGO STATE
-not least because it lets it off the
hook when when it comes to side-stepping public anger over its own
institutional failures.
INSTEAD OF TAKING THE BLAME
NEW LABOUR CAN PASS THE BUCK TO THE
QUANGOCRATS
More important, QUANGOS have proved the
perfect vehicle for transforming the social fabric of Britain into a
politically correct
NANNY STATE
-while avoiding the need for a
DEMOCRATIC MANDATE FOR CHANGE
Burden
This happens in two ways:
FIRST
of
all, the Labour Government has packed the QUANGOS with its own
supporters who can be guaranteed to follow the Blairite line on key
issues.
Thus leading labour member
Trevor Phillips was appointed the chairman of the Commission for
Racial Equality;
Sue Woodford Hollick -wife of Labour media tycoon
Lord Hollick is chair of the London Arts Council
Chris Smith -the former Cabinet Minister is head
of the Avertising Standards Authority
Sir John Harman -ex-Labour Councillor, is boss of
the Environmental Agency
Baroness Joyce Gould the former general
Secretary of the Labour Party is head of the Advisory Group on Sexual
Health promoting its ultra-liberal views. Quite rightly this has led to
accusations of
CRONYISM.
SECONDLY, the QUANGOS ruthlessly impose Labour's
ultra-liberal agenda like
SOCIAL
INCLUSION
HUMAN
RIGHTS
MULTICULTURALISM
HEALTH
and
SAFETY
AND
THE
DESTRUCTION
OF THE
FAMILY
EACH UNDERLINED WORD HAS A SEPARATE
BULLETIN
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It Is partly thanks to the
QUANGO STATE
that our modern civic order has become
so
OBSESSED
WITH
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
-often at the EXPENSE of any
concepts of
COMMUNITY
AND
NATIONHOOD
Take, as one example, this statement from the newly
created
QUANGO
NATURAL ENGLAND
-which was set up this year to look after the
ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE
Among the stated goals of this unloved body are
'To develop and promote a diverse workforce.
-To find new ways in which we can promote
SOCIAL
INCLUSION'
-and
'to apply our procurement policies to increase supplier
diversity'
THIS NONSENSE
-now prevails throughout
QUANGOLAND
-increasing the cost to the
TAXPAYER
-and the regulatory burden
TO ALL OF US
WHY DO WE PUT UP WITH THEM?
None of us voted for the
QUANGOS
-TO TAKE OVER OUR LIVES
-nor did we all vote for the
SOCIAL REVOLUTION
THEY HAVE IMPOSED ON OUR LIVES
Surely it is time to start taking
BACK
OUR
POWER
-before we all drown under the deluge of their
SELF SERVING ACTIVITIES.
THE FIGHT
TO
'Set Britain FREE'
-SHOULD START AT THE DOOR OF THE QUANGO STATE
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[Font Altered-Bolding & Underlining Used-Comments in
Brackets]
JUNE/07
[In the meantime we list past bulletins
on the subject]
KINGS
and QUEENS of BLAIR'S QUANGOS
The
COSTLIEST 50 QUANGOS -MANY WASTE YOUR MONEY
How Blair
spent £6.5 billion on 111 busybodies (QUANGOS) -NONE OF US VOTED FOR.
[The above bulletins are from
February-2005 and therefore the situation has got considerably worse as
indicted in the above essay.]
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GOVERNMENT’S
LATEST PROPAGANDA ON EU
[Not much has changed
since we put the above bulletin on our website in
December
2004]
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THE PEOPLE HAVE
SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING?
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Ditch the EU
TREATY after IRISH REJECTION
SAY VOTERS
by
Daniel
Martin
Political
Reporter
[Daily Mail-Wednesday, June
18,2008]
MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain should
drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of its
rejection in last week's
IRISH REFERENDUM'
The poll comes as the Tories launch a last-ditch
bid in the
HOUSE of LORDS
today to delay the
RATIFICATION OF
THE TREATY.
And
10,000 people
have signed a
PETITION
on the
DOWNING STREET-
WEBSITE
within the past few days
JUNE16-2008
, calling on the
GOVERNMENT
NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL
[WHY DON'T YOU?]
Downing Street
website is
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/
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JUNE 18-2008
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13th October,2007
So You Want Out
Of The EU
THEN WHY NOT SIGN THE
RENUNCIATION of EU CITIZENSHIP
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Optout
Details from petition creator
With the signing of the Maastricht
Treaty the people of Britain were given
DUAL CITIZENSHIP
-both
EUROPEAN and BRITISH
The extra tier of citizenship was
thrust upon the people without their consent -and in many cases
knowledge.
The PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN should be
allowed the option of opting out of the EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP if they so
wish. The GOVERNMENT will then be able to provide those who have opted
out with
BRITISH DOCUMENTATION
-only such as British (not EU)
passports, driving licences and other national documents.
EU laws will also NOT APPLY to those who
HAVE OPTED OUT OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
[PETITION OPEN UNTIL
OCTOBER 08]
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Let the people speak!
www.makeitanissue.org.uk
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www.noliberties.com
[Latest Addition - June07]
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www.eutruth.org.uk
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www.thewestminsternews.co.uk
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www.speakout.co.uk
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Daniel Hannan - Forming an OPPOSITION
to the EU
www.telegraph.co.uk.blogs
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GORDON BROWN WANTS TRUST-BUT WHY WON'T
HE TRUST YOU?
HELL ON EARTH IN IRAQ
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67% want powers back from
EU-ICM poll-June 21-2007-95%
of British people want a
REFERENDUM
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PETITION
FOR A
REFERENDUM
SIGN TODAY ON LINE
telegraph.co.uk/eureferendum
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July 18-2007
VOTE
-2007
TO
LEAVE
THE
EUROPEAN
UNION
WITH THE ONLY PARTY WITH A MANDATE
TO SET YOU
FREE
THE
UK
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
www.ukip.org
THE QUESTION THAT THE
VOTER MUST ANSWER
‘DO
YOU WISH TO BE GOVERNED BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE, LAW AND CUSTOM OR BY THE
CORRUPT ,EXPENSIVE UNACCOUNTABLE AND CORRUPT ALIEN BUSYBODY BRUSSELS’
-SIMPLE IS IT NOT?
TO RECLAIM YOUR DEMOCRACY DON'T VOTE
FOR THE TRIPARTITE PARTIES IN WESTMINSTER
BUT
SMALL PARTIES THAT SPEAK THEIR MINDS
WITHOUT SPIN AND LIES.
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ONLY
PRO-PORTIONAL
REPRESENTATION
WILL
BRING
DEMOCRACY
BACK
TO
THE
ENGLISH
PEOPLE
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-ITS PARLIAMENT -WALES-ITS
ASSEMBLY-ENGLAND-STILL
AWAITS ITS PARLIAMENT-WHY?
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for
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RULE
for
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