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Just before Christmas the government  that promised a ” bonfire of the quangos”set up a new one.

It is called the Dormant Assets Commission and it is unusual in that every member of the quango is a wealthy business person.

Not surprisingly there was little coverage of this body. But the government itself provided a lot of information about what it would do and who was sitting…

Even within the sector, there’s quite a bit of confusion. The Environment Agency consistently gets referred to as the Environmental Agency. Natural England still gets called by its old name, English Nature. Defra itself is often referred to as MAFF, which it hasn’t been since 2002. And nobody really knows what CEH or Cefas do. Unless Peter had worked in Wildlife crime, or done joint ops with the EA (or one of the marine enforcement agencies), he’d probably not really know what any of them did. I don’t know if standard cop training includes stuff on the Wildlife and Countryside Act (if so, he might have seen, like, a powerpoint on the various agencies), but conceivably not.

Let’s Hear It For Quangos And Common Purpose.

Why has there been not a word about the insidious advance of Common Purpose,  the European Union’s undercover Non Governmental Organisation, referred to by the British as a Quango, a quasi governmental organisation, which has long been controlled by Francis Maud, a long time Tory MP, in the run up to the election. The British people having  handed control of their green and pleasant land, into…