FYI.Daily Star: YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'VE BEEN QUANGO'D.
UNELECTED bureaucrats cost Brits a whopping £90 billion on largely pointless public bodies last year.
More than 1,100 quangos spent the staggering sum – £3,640 for every household – in 2007/08, a £13bn hike on the previous year.
Now the Taxpayers’ Alliance has urged political leaders to help the UK’s ailing economy by cutting the number of groups, which include the Agricultural Wages Board, the National School of Government and the Health Protection Agency.
Alliance researcher Ben Farrugia said: “Politicians are talking about a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ but the terrible state of public finances means this must be more than just idle talk .”
More than 1,100 quangos spent the staggering sum – £3,640 for every household – in 2007/08, a £13bn hike on the previous year.
Now the Taxpayers’ Alliance has urged political leaders to help the UK’s ailing economy by cutting the number of groups, which include the Agricultural Wages Board, the National School of Government and the Health Protection Agency.
Alliance researcher Ben Farrugia said: “Politicians are talking about a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ but the terrible state of public finances means this must be more than just idle talk .”
