This headline, in the Saturday 30th October Daily Mail caught my eye
and so I read on.
Quentin Letts column.
Quango Queen 2. Helen Phillips is the £144,000 a year head of Natural
England.
A Tory MP, Ian Liddell-Grainger this week had a terrific go at the environmental quango calling it a “Stalinist organisation” which uses
‘Scare tactics’ against farmers.
Mr Liddell-Grainger accused its acolytes of wearing open- toed sandals and overdue haircuts, but their ‘loony bunny-hugger’ leader was prone
To ‘elegant stiletto- heeled boots’.
Another MP pointed out that Natural England’s staff costs for this year
are £96.5 million?
The Government’s reaction? Farming Minister James Paice meekly said
he would not axe Natural England.
It is gratifying to find that other people think along the same lines regarding Natural England.
Mr Liddell-Grainger could have included brown rice when he commented on the open- toed sandals.
Did I miss something; I was under the impression that Dave was going to sort out the Quangos if he got in? . It looks like yet another empty promise.
Monday, 1 November 2010
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