"Quangos are the hidden hands of government in Scotland; agencies which nobody voted for but hold far more power than is healthy, much of it leeched from local accountability..."
The Herald: 17th October 2024: Former Labour MP, Brian Wilson, is the latest to ask the key question about the rising quangocracy
"...Once again, the failed governance of Scotland’s ferry network has highlighted this but the quango issue goes much wider and deeper than that.
This week, the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Fiona Hyslop, has faced bitter criticism from the Western Isles for reappointing the Copenhagen-based chair of Caledonian MacBrayne, Erik Østergaard, who has been to the islands once since being leveraged into the job, and two board members who have, quite literally, never set foot in a CalMac port..."