Excuse me for the nonsense title but Edward Lear might have been on to something about 21st century government.
Andrew Neil steps in with a lucid and - for once! - highly critical (and not just subtly biased) discussion of the Tories' quango bonfire proposals.
It's not so much about which quangos protect which vulnerable element of society but about what really is a quango. Good read and quite informative, and restores part of my faith in the media's ability to scrutinise Parliament effectively after the unctuous Kitty Ussher was allowed to sneak past under the BS radar last week.
Doubtless quangos need reform and their directors possibly need a pay cut but if we are going to reduce spending in the long run we have to provide a robust programme of tricky reform not just axe bodies which are better off being divorced from government to ensure that political manipulation can't be used to distort their remit.
