For all the mutterings from vested interests in the news here about quangos and how their dismantling would be disastrous (this one, for example, comparing the UK Film Council to the NHS) you need only look at the US and the size of their quangocracy to see we are not alone by any means.

Via Zero Hedge, the following graphic (taken from the Washington Post) shows just how large the outsourcing of government services is over there :

Makes our problem of unaccountable, unelected troughpigs look rather tame by comparison.