Monday 26 October 2009

Three little words that say so much ...

Those three little words are "independent of government", of course, which appears to be NewSpeak for "government propagandists". From The Green Fiscal Commission website:

The Commission is independent of government. It is formed of Commissioners with wide experience and expertise drawn from a representative range of social, economic and political stakeholders...

... followed by a list of two dozen commissioners, nearly all of whom already hold posts on other quangos.

5 comments:

Pavlov's Cat said...

"independent of government" which means it isn't.

is like Not in the public interest when you can be damn sure it would be.

Unknown said...

I had only to see the word Stakeholders to realise what a sham the Green Fical Commission really is.

I believe ASH (spit) are a Stakeholder in many quangos, as is BH...

AntiCitizenOne said...

The need to be Buffy style Stakeholders.

bayard said...

Well, call me ignorant, but up until this point I thought all Commissions were set up by the gov't. I thought that's what made it a commission, not an society or an institute.

James Higham said...

Lots of yummy moolah coming in to line the pockets.