Proper shirt for wear with a Sheriffmuir

[Baeau]

...Despite being the Scottish tourist board isVisit Scotland really an authority?...

I assumed they might / would be. Until early January, when I dug through the inbox.

[Jock Scot]

I assumed they might / would be. Until early January, when I dug through the inbox.

Thank you. You make my point perfectly.

[Highland Logan]

It seems that Visit Scotland are promulgating a similar view to that I expressed earlier. So who is right I wonder?

I assume they are a Government department, so there you go.

Frank

[Highland Logan]

I think they are a QUANGO so even less accountable than any elected representatives.

You miss my point. Government bureaucrats... the unelected who often, as the thought goes, could not make a go of it in the public sector. I'm not suggesting they can be held accountable, I'm suggesting the information they provide is not always up to snuff.

Frank

[Father Bill]

What on earth is a "Quango" anyway? Is it another of these acronyms designed to communicate secretively between members of the cogniscati?

[Highland Logan]

What on earth is a "Quango" anyway? Is it another of these acronyms designed to communicate secretively between members of the cogniscati?

a semipublic administrative body outside the civil service but receiving financial support from the government, which makes senior appointments to it.

[Father Bill]

a semipublic administrative body outside the civil service but receiving financial support from the government, which makes senior appointments to it.

Helpful. Do you know what it stands for? Is it indeed an acronym?

[Highland Logan]

Thank you. Most of us just call them "NGOs" or Non-Governmental Organizations.

Acronyms normally keep more people 'out' than they bring in.

Bill+

A “QUANGO” is a “QUasi Autonomous Non Governmental Organisation” in other words an unaccountable body set up and funded by government. So if they mess it up the head of the government department really responsible escapes the collateral damage. Great idea isn’t it?

Like Steve has pointed out, a Quango and an NGO, are two different things. As to acronyms, I can somewhat agree, if they are a local, or inter-group thing... But with Google, you can stop for a second and expand your mind. If the conversations were limited to only what others thought the rest or the group knew, the conversations would limited, short, or just might not happen.

Frank

[Father Bill]

Like Steve has pointed out, a Quango and an NGO, are two different things. As to acronyms, I can somewhat agree, if they are a local, or inter-group thing... But with Google, you can stop for a second and expand your mind. If the conversations were limited to only what others thought the rest or the group knew, the conversations would limited, short, or just might not happen.

Frank

Frank, I take that as a personal shot. Why is the onus on me to "expand my mind" and not on the original poster of these things to write clearly? I guess you think me to be small-minded when you use that terminology.

Let's end it right here and now.