CCC Respond To Mail’s Gummer Article
February 5, 2019
By Paul Homewood
The CCC has responded to the Mail’s exposure of John Gummers dodgy dealings:
https://www.theccc.org.uk/2019/02/03/response-to-article-in-the-mail-on-sunday/
I’m not sure why they bothered, as the response is stating the bleedin’ obvious!
Surely, as a taxpayer funded quango, they should at the very least have announced a full investigation into Gummer’s financial arrangements?
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Quangos can’t be voted out. That’s why they’re so popular with the politicos – sheltered from public opinion.
An incredible, but hardly surprising, response. Talk about snouts in the trough – they are clearly all at it. Jobs for the boys (and girls) who will clearly close ranks and defend each other if attacked.
So, what is the clear policy, and will it be applied?
I think it’s called ‘running scared’.
When was the last time an official organisation issued a statement (no matter how miserable) without enormous public pressure.
Essentially batting the ball back into Gummers court, guilty until proven innocent.
They have obviously reviewed his actions and find them acceptable, no surprise there.
I do wonder just how much of his ill gotten gains has gone to fund the Fracking Protesters and the remainers cause. But he still should be investigated, last I heard, no one was above the Law!
Indeed they should!
This is the man who burst into tears when telling Mrs Thatcher she must go. I wonder how much he wept when the cheques came through?
Drain the swamp! Policies to implement
Quangos need to be publically accountable. They must be publically audited annually by parliamentary committee which must have absolute right to dismiss members. Their pay must be in accordance with civil service scales and must be ratified by Parliament. All employees must be dismissable on 2 months notice or less, for any or no reason.
Thats a start for a manifesto.
Remember the Tories promised a bonfire of the Quango’s, what happened to that? The number one on the Tory list of most useless Quango’s was the Wine Standards Board – it still exists !!!!
Simple, you can’t believe a politician’s promises. Fewer Quangos, fewer jobs for the boys. Quangos are there for a reason, mostly so they can lobby the government, to implement policies, that the government wants.
Well the Wine Standards Board says it exists to “enforce(s) EU wine regulations in the UK.”
So in a few weeks time we can wave goodbye to it!
“…we can wave goodbye to it!”
And to barking-mad Kraut politicians?
German MEP Elmar Bek says that in the event of a no-deal Brexit a hard border will have to be instituted between Ireland and Northern Ireland to keep chlorinated chickens out of the EU Motherland.
“Achtung! Any invading chicken who smells of ze swimm-bad goes up against the wall!”
In a recent comment about people benefiting from public subsidies, I learned that David Cameron’s father gets at least £1,000 a day, and possibly double that from windmills sited on his land, I really cannot believe that just one beneficiary is receiving between £365,000 and £750,000 from this subsidy. Does anyone have knowledge of what he gets? If this is confirmed then I now know why it is taking so long for the government to clear the national debt!
Actually Cameron’s father in law , Sir Reginald Sheffield (Baronet).via his wife Samantha.
It was Sir Reg himself who claimed in an interview in 2011 that he was earning £350000 per year from 8 wind turbines on his estate in Lincolnshire. That was 8 years ago.I think applications have been made for more wind turbines – and of course we will need all we can erect for the future all-electric vehicle fleet that the CCC promote. So Sir Reg will have a very handsome fortune to hand down to his several children and their partners – whilst the rest of us wonder what unexpected imposition the next quarterly electricity bill will
contain to pay for that largesse.
Gummidge didn’t want to be left out, clearly
So they’re playing three wise monkeys, since Gummer has yet to report. Meanwhile, they’ve also left him out on a limb should the story be pressed home. But be sure they have lined up another greenie to take over. After all, he might just succumb to old age one day. Some think he already has, judging by his Twitter line.
Absolutely spot on Paul. How can we exert a lot more pressure. The Gumshoe has always been, in the favourite words of my father, “a gentleman of false assurance”. Comeuppance is long overdue.
I think the only way to get rid of these quangos is to defund them. And to do that, there needs to be pressure on the chancellor to do the flow of money to them, so they die a relatively quick death.
Correction: to stop the flow of money…
The problem with the quangos is that over time, like all institutions and groups, they drift from neutrality and become biased in one way or another. And once the drift starts, it accelerates – Public Health England for example. Eventually they are taken over by activists/extremists and become authoritarian and completely unaccountable.
Once the rot sets it is amplified by the jobs for the quangocrats mentality, whereby the same people just move around getting ever more power and ever more pay.
Of course the EU is basically one giant quango.
The Mandy Rice-Davies gambit applies!
While the CCC is explaining things maybe they could also justify having a Drax employee on the committee……
Further, as noted on a previous thread, the Mail did not pick up his prior employment with Veolia.
As a contemporary of Gummer at Cambridge university I (naively) thought that we were the good guys in favor of truth, beauty and justice.
Shame on you, John Selwyn Gummer.