"At the heart of Labour’s plans is a second wave of quangos"

Telegraph: 12th April 2024: Robert Jenrick writes about his fears that Labour plan further erosion of democratic accountability and ballooning of yet more quangos

"The British state is costing more to deliver services less well... Sir Keir Starmer has an answer. He will methodically strip issues out of the political arena, and hand over decisions to unelected civil servants, quangos, and judges to create technocratic governance unimpeded by pesky debates between elected representatives...

...take a look at the ECHR case this week.. What should be the preserve of democratic debate is now being absorbed by a legal-administrative elite accountable to no one...  Great British Energy will be set up and granted a remit to set energy policy. Education will see a new “National Curriculum Authority”, reinforced by “Skills England”...Bureaucracy will balloon... Decisions will not be made by elected politicians, but by these “experts” who subscribe to the economic orthodoxy... 

Executive power is already seeping away from Ministers... when Secretary of State for Health, ordered NHS Trusts to stop recruiting directly to dedicated EDI roles, the chair of NHS England appeared to reprimand him for daring to tell the NHS how to spend taxpayer money...

...Labour will double-down on the Equality Act with a new Race Equality Act that will mandate ethnicity disparity reporting... Disparities in pay and referrals to disciplinary procedures may be used as definitive evidence of “systemic discrimination” in public bodies, warranting ever more EDI training classes and the employment of third party “EDI consultancies”.

...Starmer’s proposals are a direct continuation of New Labour’s constitutional changes to Britain between 1997 and 2010. If Labour is allowed to “rewire” Britain, whichever government follows it will find their control of the system has been diminished even further..."

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