Quango deficit

[The Eye]

How much more are the government going to shower upon these entities that spend more speculative wonga on subjects that roll more eyes than address pressing issues?

The National Audit Office thundered a damaging press release to sympathetic broadsheets (namely, the Independent) calling for these think tanks to be scrutinised by a fresh pair of eyes. In other words, people that don't read The Telegraph. In this scrambled release, a lot of attention was paid to the amount spent in consultancy fees paid to recession bleeding institutions such as PwC and Deloitte who are in the habit of jumping in bed with any Tory back Quango. Much has been discussed about the efficiency of these Quango's, but more has been paid to those staffing these comedy acts.

What seems to be common ground for the layman and expert alike is that they seem to be an excuse to 'give a mate a job'. Lining the pocket of a fellow friend, or...you know...boardmember, has long been a Tory tradition thats set in Etonian stone for many kin to follow suit, well, fill one anyway.

Figures indicate (numbers, not suits) that this scandalous squandering is where the cuts should be made, but where the cuts (and bruises) will be most felt. Felt in the sense that they'll push more monetary assistance to those on the public service frontline, and push more of the clowns making these - oh so key decisions - into real work whether it being stacking the shelves for their mates at M&S, or making a worth while impact in enviroment they currently operate in.

You can just picture the last helicopter leaving Saigon.