I wish we had politicians with the balls to say this in New Zealand. Let’s see if Francis Maude delivers on the rhetoric.
In the House of Commons recently, Francis Maude was asked to list which of the hundreds of Whitehall quangos, agencies and non-departmental bodies he was “assessing on their suitability of purpose and cost-effectiveness”, or in other words, sizing up for the butcher’s block. Instead of providing a list, Mr Maude replied simply: “All of them.”
