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October 14, 2010

It's not about the money, then

October 14, 2010/ Gary Bandy

Abolishing and merging of all these quangos announced by Francis Maude today is, it seems, to improve accountability rather than to save money. I processed the announcement from the Cabinet Office website through wordle.net to produce this word cloud.

No mention of 'money' or 'savings' and 'spending' only appears because of references to the Spending Review.