Go, quangos
“I CAN’T, in all honesty, explain to the British people why they should spend their money on two layers of bureaucracy.”
That’s what the PM told us when he recently axed the world’s biggest quango — NHS England — to free millions of pounds for front-line services.
ReutersPM Sir Keir Starmer recently axed NHS England but there is more work to be done to banish bogus bureaucracy[/caption]
Yet that unelected body was just the tip of a massive bureaucratic iceberg.
More than 315 quango chiefs are on bigger salaries than the man paid to run the country, researchers found, and nearly 1,500 are paid more than £100,000 by taxpayers.
The trouble with quangos — and Labour has set up nearly 30 new ones — is that they often duplicate what civil servants already do.
Then they look for more things to spend your money on to try to justify their existence… and those huge salaries.
Even if others already do it better.
The proposed Independent Football Regulator is a perfect example.
The Premier League — one of Britain’s best assets — does not need interference from a pointless quango, run by a Labour crony under pressure to do what ministers want rather than what is good for the game or for fans.
The Government’s promised bonfire of quangos can’t happen soon enough.
It should start by kicking the football regulator idea into touch.
Be tough, Prez
LET’S hope President Trump has seen the light with his recognition that Vladimir Putin has been “tapping” him along.
After weeks of cosying up to the blood-drenched butcher, and excusing Putin’s latest missile attacks on Ukrainian civilians as “a mistake”, it is surely clear, even to Trump, that the Russian tyrant has zero interest in peace.
This is a man who is happy for hundreds of thousands of his own people to be killed in his bid to wipe out Ukraine.
His soldiers, like proud Ukrainians, are merely pawns in his sick games and he will stop only when forced to.
That is why the US President, with European support, must get tough with sanctions that will actually hurt Moscow if he really wants to be remembered as the man who ended this war.
Marvel dads
CONGRATULATIONS to all the London Marathon charity runners.
Few, however, will have pulled at the heart-strings quite like dads Sergio Aguiar and David Stancombe, raising money in memory of Alice Aguiar, nine, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Bebe King, six, killed in last year’s Southport knife attack.
They were helped all the way by a tide of good wishes from the PM, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the nation…
But most of all by the memories of their precious daughters in their hearts.
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