Davros Grandad
Don't sweat it, haha.

It's not the fact that people work for QUANGOS I resent, its the fact that so many unneccessary QUANGOs exist as non elected government bodies that pisses me off.

For example, we have a QUANGO which relieves the taxpayer of £70,000 a year in order to advise on which wines are appropriate for state occasions.

Okay, a certain number of bodies which bridge the gap between government decision making and the public are a good thing, ie the Audit Office. However, both this and the previous government have gone QUANGO crazy, with far too many MP's croneys sitting on a great many committees with no regulation.

The fact that our 2001 QUANGO budget of £36bn is roughly equal to the cost of the welfare state for the same year is frightening.

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OSOK is right.

It's the mismanagement and the fact that whenever anyone complains about the fact we're being raped in the wallet we're rewarded with "how many schools & hospitals do you want us to close?" and another penny on fuel duty.

Take their environmental policy for example. I'm being taxed to the eyeballs because I drive a car. Some fat cunt in the government keeps repeating "Global Warming" and "carbon footprint" every time anyone complains.

However, the same government that's so keen to slap a tax on anything that emits carbon is also very, very reluctant to stop the rampant expansion on air travel. The environmental damage caused by air travel is massive, given that the carbon is ejected at 40,000 feet. I did the maths a while back, a 747 flying to New York from London will burn the same amount of fuel as my car will in 144 years.

If the government truly gave a fuck, they'd be doing something to lobby for greener air travel, but because international flights are exempt from carbon emissions statistics, it's chosen to subsidize the environmental damage done by transatlantic businessmen by clobbering the middle classes journeying to work. If that isn't cynical then what is?

Moreover, the rail network is still a shambles and escalating in costs every year. Busses are getting more and more expensive as rural services are slashed. Where is the legislation to prevent this?

And one final example, it's a lesser known fact that MPs are encouraged by central government to take three "exotic" holidays to foreign climes a year, ostensibly to "broaden their horizons" (this was the terminology put to me by a local Tory MP). Now I fucking pay for that and I'm very fucked off.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 10 Jan 2008, 16:22, Reply)