quangos

sounds like the kind of thing we need a quango to investigate

umbongo umbongo de drink it in de quango

mass unemployment. nap

Johnny was a wrestler.

In answer to your question Noddy, the country didn't grind to a halt before we had them. Cameron is on record as saying that he will look at them and see where potential cost savings can be made.
He is in for a long time-consuming exercise methinks. When Nulabour came to power we apparently had 135 quangos. We now have 1,162, employing 700,000 bureaucrats and costing the taxpayer £64bn each year.

When Labour first took office it pledged to reduce the existing 135 and make government smaller. In fact, before getting elected to office in 1997, Brown promised a "bonfire" of all the quangos.

It makes you want to weep doesn't it!

It seems so bad for the persons employed - it's so hard to undo what has already be done.
However, we all (well almost all) know where the blame lies.

If I was PM I would list all 1162 quangos on the net and as I got rid of em would cross em out so everyone could chart my progress.