Something of a double edged sword this:
Revealed: the executives who determine public sector pay
Phillip Inman
Ministers refusing to negotiate on wages say they must follow official review bodies – but who sits on these boards and how accountable are they?
Hmm, well. The real point being made here is that when the quangos produce a result not liked then they must be accountable. Accountable to those who would be able to make them change their decision.
Of course, when the same bureaucratic structure produces decisions liked then it’s entirely different. The Climate Change Commission doesn’t have to be accountable because it pushes lunatic ideas which are liked. Indeed, the entire point of the CCC is to insist that those accountable – the elected politicians – cannot in fact bring in policies that those doing the accounting would like. So too with all those “legally binding” targets for this and that. They’re insistences that accountability not happen.
This can all turn on a sixpence too. Note how who was on the EHRC only became an important subject for accountability discussions when they showed signs of wrongthink on the subject of race.
The whole and entire point of boards and commissions and sub-committees is to push the decision making out of the accountability arena. So don’t come whining when they produce a decision you don’t like……
Another, worse example – throughout the China Virus lockdowns, school closings, mask & not-really-a-vaccine mandates, pols in the U.S. claimed “we’re just following The Science”. BS, you’re listening to one or more scientists whose advice you like, Science itself is not speaking to you and the citizens should insist that you take responsibility for your decisions. And quit pretending that all scientists agree with your decisions.
Indeed, the entire point of the CCC is to insist that those accountable – the elected politicians – cannot in fact bring in policies that those doing the accounting would like. So too with all those “legally binding” targets for this and that. They’re insistences that accountability not happen.
When Rishi Sunak slid conservatively down the collective excretory canal of the British body politic to plop himself on an unwilling and now irrelevant electorate, it was a big red neon flashing sign detailing how things work here now.
Everything you want is illegal and racist, everything they want is inevitable and immune to petty concerns such as “democratic consent”, “feasibility” or “sanity”.
Getting rid of Jeremy Corbyn was just the start, they’ve pulled the exact same trick on the nominal Right, and now the majority of British people have been effectively disenfranchised while the economy falls apart and they await their replacement by a more theoretically biddable Third World population and the Labour government in waiting softens us up to blame the South Africa style power cuts on white people.
In summary, I suggest voting Reform.
It was Dick Feynman who described “Cargo Cult Science” in easy to understand prose. The whole edifice you described is just this! Of course the problem is that the teat has become so large as to dwarf the economy trying to fund it.