A blast of hot air at Bali's climate conference

UK Telegraph ^ | December 03 2007

[knighthawk]

Ping

[Eric in the Ozarks]

"Quangocrats" ?
Must be really bad.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Shoulda made them hold the conference in Cleveland!

[Tarpon]

The smell of money. Attracts bureaucrats like flies to a watermelon party.

[socialismisinsidious]

The Bali summit represents much of what is wrong with the green movement, in that it elevates intentions over results.

Hate to state the obvious, but this is true of all liberals,aka socialist. The ends always justifies the means. Don't worry though: it's going to be utopia when they're done (if we don't all die first).

[Robe]

No mention of the fact that they were notified by the Bali Airport that there was no parking available for the all the private jets

[Cicero]

It seems to be common British slang.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Quangocrat&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

But I can’t find out what it means, other than maybe a particularly obnoxious bureaucrat.

[aculeus]

Some 15,000 politicians, officials, quangocrats and assorted busybodies are descending on Bali for a jamboree that will produce more than 100,000 tons of CO2 emissions.

Priceless!

[ishabibble]

I was thinking the exact same thing last week when I read this little gem:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/23/not-enough-parking-private-jets-going-un-climate-conference

[MrB]

Here’s another line that has liberal/socialist written all over it:

“It is about feeling smug; and getting paid for it.”

[Eric in the Ozarks]

15 thousand ? 60 Minutes should do a fly-over.

Gad !

[facedown]

Classic Socialism: the apparatchik play while the rest of us pay for it.

[Snardius]

Shoulda made them hold the conference in Cleveland!

Ohh...that's cruel...

[Cymbaline]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quango

"Quango" means QUAsi Non Governmental Organization, according to wikipedia, so a Quangocrat must be a NGO Bureaucrat. I guess.

[ScaniaBoy]

Quangos is a term used mainly in Britain to describe so called quasi nongovernmental organizations. That is an organization on which the government has devolved power and given a monopoly like status.

From Wiki:

"The term originated as a humorous shortening of Quasi-NGO, that is, an ostensibly non-governmental organisation which performs governmental functions, often with government funding or other support. There are many such organisations. In Australia and other countries, the Red Cross provides blood bank services, with government support and backing of various kinds. Examples in the United Kingdom include bodies engaged in self-regulation of various sectors, such as the Press Council and the Law Society. An essential feature of a Quango, in the original definition, was that it should not be formally part of the public sector."

"However, the appeal of the term was such that it was extended to a wide range of governmental organisations, such as executive agencies (from 1988) providing health, education and other services. Particularly in the United Kingdom, this extension took place in a polemical context, being associated with claims that the proliferation of such authorities was undesirable and should be reversed."

Quangocrats is of course a derived term meaning bureaucrats working in a Qango - for most right-thinking individuals there should be free hunting season on such animals all year.

[ScaniaBoy]

Hats off, you beat me to it.

:-)

[fanfan]

Ping

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

They can suffer along with me.

[Wil H]

Quango is an acronym for “Quasi National Government Organisation”.

Examples of such in Britain would be the Regional Elecricity Boards, or The Milk Marketing Board, or Regional River Authorities.

They were set up by Government edit and are regulated but are not part of the Government structure but do have some limited power devolved to them.