Where are the real people in all of this?
Is the UK unique in having lots of quangos?
QUasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation, and QUasi-Autonomous National Government Organisation, have been used, notably in the United Kingdom, but also in Australia, Ireland and other countries, to describe a range of organisations to which governments have devolved power.
Agree that it is important for minorities to be seen but unfortunately any incompetence on their part will be jumped on as a reason why we shouldn't let 'these people' in on quotas or sympathy votes, because they just don't know what they are doing.
Also as you say, no thought is given to the incompetence of the usual suspects or suggestions made that we shouldn't let white middle aged men have anything to do with running things. Ad astra per aspera
It's hard to compare the effect of having nothing but middle-aged white men in public positions (with incompetence masked), to that of seeing victims of inequitable treatment in those positions (incompetence pounced upon). Does the former produce feelings of revolt? Is the latter just minority-washing (akin to greenwashing) that puts across a reassuring image to send people to sleep? I really don't know.
