Lot's of activity but no progress

Christopher Booker in his column in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph commented on the "ministry of silly names". The countless acronyms which appear and then disappear is something we have all noticed.

There are overlapping quangos, with different names. There are are two with the initials FSA, - did someone forget or was one to have been re-named?

Booker points out that the DTI became BERR, and is now BI& S. Similarly the Education department became CSF. Somewhere agriculture became lost in DEFFRA.

Each time there is a change, name plates on doors and names on notepaper have to be changed, of course, so it is a costly exercise to keep the cabinet on their toes.

What it all signifies is a governing party which must always be doing something, so the result is often chaos and confusion. More importantly they like to be seen to be doing something.

Given the record of constant changes of personnel and titles, there is plenty of action.

But it's all like a rocking horse, - plenty of motion, but no progress.