A bonfire of all the quangos (some, anyway) seems like a sensible response to their proliferation. It also seems like laudable recognition of their essentially fictitious character: like financial 'products', quangos from the New Labour generation are really self-serving, networking opportunities with remuneration attached (to the right people).
But the Coalition cabinet is sadly mistaken in thinking that this will allow Britain to check back into reality. Sadly, the UK has been sleepwalking for longer and further than they realize. Slashing into the previous generation of networks in the interests of 'de-centralisation', will only lead to the creation of new lines of 'local' networking, similarly self-serving and equally peripheral to the social relations of production.
As the lumpen proletariat is to work, so Britain's capitalists are to productive capital. There is no obvious solution to their lumpen character; and it certainly won't be consumed in a bonfire of Blairite quangos.
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