Don't have time to set out in any detail the full uselessness of the Audit Commission. Nor to dwell on its pointlessness and how it has become a generator of cost rather than a watchdog of efficiency. But this quote from here is enough to scrap it in my book.
Earlier this year it emerged the body, which is supposed to the politically neutral, paid nearly £60,000 to lobbyists who advised it to "combat the activities of Eric Pickles", then the Tory party chairman.
'Nuff said!
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