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Well, not really sorry, but a question I need answered after the announcement by George Osborne about the separation of economic growth predictions from the Treasury to a new 'Office for Budget Responsibility'. 

Now don't get me wrong, but wouldn't that be just another quango? (quasi-automonous non-governmental-organisation)? I mean, who would appoint this Office administrators and can we have a say then? And one of the areas of government that were meant to be stamped out by the new administration?  

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Maybe George thought,
"Oh sheet, I've got no idea what I'm meant to do!
If I get some experts to do a job share with me, perhaps I could spin it as a necessary control on my natural urge to lie!"

Or, maybe it is all part of the 'Big Society' and they have found some volunteer housewives, who are good at budget forecasting.
Blizz'ard
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Or, maybe it is all part of the 'Big Society' and they have found some volunteer housewives, who are good at budget forecasting.
I've wondered over the years why a woman hasn't been made Chancellor of The Exchequer. Surely it's the majority of women who learn or have to know how to budget as they do the shopping, organise the bill payments etc. etc. or maybe that's because most of the women I know take charge of all that
Yellow Rose
HM Treasury 'outsourced' some work during the Blair/Brown years. I guess they are just making it official now, as a way of shifting the responsibility for huge cuts in public spending. To be fair, if Labour had won, they would have probably taken the same path.
A woman Chancellor would be great  But I'll hang on for Yvette Cooper.
suzybean
when gordon shifted the responsibility for  interest rates to the bank of england,instead of being the chancellors decision, we had interest rates based on economic facts  rather than political advantage.

the same will be true for the responsibility being shifted to an independent body for forecasting growth in the economy,so no more tarted up figures that conceal just how badly we are doing,from politicians.
jacksonb
Well maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick but to me what the story meant was that there will be no further fiddling of the figures.  Has to be a good thing in my book.  I am still looking forward to the sweeping away of the quangos.  My take on it is that its governments who look to bring in more state controls that sign up to all the quangos - hence the 'big state' that we have had in recent years.  More and more government telling us what to do, watching our every movement, microhips in wheely bins etc.
squiggle
Since I can remember governments of all hues (Thatcherites every one) have been promising to do away with the Quango. They haven't yet!
It's fair to say that most of yer actual criticisers don't understand what they are protesting about and tend to lump a lot of organisations together under a generic term to which they give a negative value.
This is another Quango though but.
Garage Joe

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