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So much for the bonfire of the quangos: Thousands of bureaucrats recruited since the election despite Cameron's pledge


Pseudo-conservatism: David Cameron

Quote Originally Posted by Daily Mail
Thousands more bureaucrats have been recruited by the Coalition in spite of David Cameron's pledge to hold a 'bonfire of the quangos'. At least 4,500 civil servants have been taken on since the election in May last year by Government departments and quangos – three times the number that have been handed compulsory redundancy notices. The Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact and the Committee on Climate Change are among the quangos which have been busy recruiting.

Extra staff have been taken on while many parts of the public sector are making swingeing cuts to front-line services. Last night critics questioned whether quangos and ministries should be recruiting at all when the Government had promised to do all it could to shrink the size of the state. They attacked the Whitehall 'revolving door' which often sees people being made redundant in one department, receiving a large payout, and re-appointed in another. The recruitment splurge was revealed by former Tory Cabinet minister John Redwood through Parliamentary questions.

The figures make a nonsense of the Coalition's so-called 'Bonfire of the Quangos'. Earlier this year the Daily Mail revealed that just 2,500 quangocrats – out of 700,000 – had been given their marching orders and that their average pay-off was £26,000. But the latest information shows that, at the same time as making some people redundant, many quangos have been busily recruiting extra staff. Overall, the recruitment freeze has led to a fall in the number of staff employed by the civil service, while others have gone through lucrative voluntary redundancy schemes, many of which are not included in Mr Redwood's figures.

Matthew Elliott of the TaxPayers' Alliance said: 'These figures will reinforce taxpayers' feelings that many in Whitehall believe they can carry on as if it's business as usual. 'It's bizarre that civil servants are walking in one door whilst others are receiving often generous redundancy pay-offs and heading out of another. 'Wasteful and unaccountable quangos like the Equality and Human Rights Commission should be scrapped, they absolutely should not be recruiting.'



A while back I posted how government is still spending more than before those so-called 'cuts' took place, here's more evidence on how the unConservative Party intended only to replace the Labour government with new faces, not a conservative method of government. How do Conservative supporters on here feel having been duped on an issue which, when confronted that their party is the exact same as the Labour government - they wag their fingers at the economic policies of this government and say 'it might not be perfect but at least they're sorting the economy out' - with 0.2% growth figures released and government spending still increasing, is anybody still going to stand by that desperate claim? I do hope not.

Thoughts? wish you had a conservative government?