Cameron's speech today about cutting the cost of politics was great - and in line with what he said in Milton Keynes.  We get really poor value for money from those in SW1 and all the over-paid quangocrats. 

Cameron today proposed:

Every quango having to justify it existence - hopefully it'll be the legislature to whom they have to justify their existence, not ministers.  The only way to reduce quangos and make them efficient is to force their head honchos to appear annually before each Commons committee to get approval for their budget.  

Ending MPs perks - including the £10,000 bragging communications allowance and all those off-balance sheet subsidies.

Abolish the standards board and the regional development agencies - sooner the better.

Outlaw public bodies using public money to lobby government - yes, Association of Police Authorities, that includes you.

1980s Tories decentralised control over the economy - freeing it from the economic planners and technocrats.  The task for the new Conservatives is to decentralise control over politics and public services - freeing it from self-servers in SW1 and quangocrats. 

Cameron's promises today are a good start...


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