New Labour waste: Quangos, quangos, quangos...

Socialists love to spend, they see no end to paperwork, more pen pushers, rules, free health care for barbarian untermenchen, renameing asylum seekers as sanctuary seekers rather than as shiftless untermenchen. Anyway back to the costs of quangos: the Taxpayer's Alliance Assessment of UK QUANGOs [PDF]: here are the main findings.

• There are 1,162 quangos in the UK, running at a total cost to the taxpayer of £64 billion, equivalent to £2,550 per household.


• Even under the Cabinet Office’s restrictive definition of quangos, the cost of these bodies has risen 50% in the last ten years.


• UK quangos now employ an army of almost 700,000 bureaucrats.


• Even the Government itself does not know the full extent of the unaccountable quango industry, which range from the massive e.g. Job Centre Plus (Staff: 70,042, Cost: £3.5 billion) and the Courts Service (Staff: 19,986, Cost: £704.8 million); to the bizarre e.g. the British Potato Council (Staff: 49); or the West Northants Development Corporation (Staff: 34, Cost: £15.3 million).


• When the total number of quangos is added to the other government subsidiaries such as local authorities and NHS trusts, the total number of organisations controlled by the UK Government rises to 2,063, costing the taxpayer £257 billion and employing over 5.1 million people.

For more waste, more mis-management and the turning of our once great Isle into a third world socialist fuckhole run by cunts for the benefit of cunts then vote Labour.

If they carry on we will be a banana republic without even the benefit of bananas....

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