What a waste by yet another Quango.

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/2enwrfo

At a time of cut-backs, quangos in particular, do we need to spend £495,643 to an Open University project examining the roots of black jazz in the UK and its impact on British culture?

What possible good can come out of spending this amount of money, to examine black jazz?

Why Jazz, and more important why just black jazz?

[Haggisdj]

Hi Steve, as someone who works in local government and about to be made redundant/outsourced it does seem like a kick in the teeth to read that half a million is being given to research the above when we are told there is no money to support our jobs/services.

I have read that the Tories are using the current financial situation to dismantle the Public Sector. The more I read the more it rings true...

[flip_flop]

No matter how this is dressed up, it still amounts to a complete waste money.

[jake-the-peg]

Well considering Cameron and co are about to waste over 40 thousand times that in giving a large white elephant a makeover up in Faslane sounds lie a bargain.

Sounds a lot more useful than Trident too!

[rov1200]

When you get the head of these quangos on a £250,000 a year salary dishing out taxpayers money to these projects they must all be living in cloud cuckoo land.