Quango heartily approves of Quango

The South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) would appear to have hired a new PR team, as they’ve gone all techno-fantastic and started doing “social networking”. Via their Twitter feed, I learn (in less that 140 characters) that:

The South West Science and Industry Council (SWSIC) supports the South West RDA's budget decisions - http://cli.gs/SNX9Tp

But who are the South West Science and Industry Council? Well, they’re eighteen chaps, mostly administrators with universities in the area, career civil servants from grant-awarding government bodies and representatives of the South West Regional Development Agency. And their secretariat is to be found at 100 Temple Street, sharing offices with SWRDA.

So the “tweet” could more accurately be phrased as:

Government Quango supports Government Quango’s budget decisions.

Good to know.