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Meet Ulster’s Quango Queen

Who is Felicity Huston. She is the Public Appointments Commissioner for Northern Ireland, and is desperately exercised that there are not enough women working for quangos and the like across the water. While bemoaning the fact that only around a third of public appointees are women compared to the relative balance between Protestants and Catholics, she does not deign to give any indication as to the levels of application of XX and XY chromosome types to bodies, or the proportion of theoretically qualified applicants by gender, still less why a man or a woman is necessarily better placed for a given job by nature of gender.

Perhaps she wishes to add to her own portfolio, although it would look as though as she herself is quite the busy bee, working as a paid non-exec for Northern Ireland Energy Holdings Ltd and Northern Ireland Gas Transmission Ltd among others, while also finding time to be a director of the amusingly named Cassandra Consulting (Does anybody actually bother to check their classical allusions?) and to be a partner / shareholder in a number of tax ‘consultancies’, despite also being the Chairman of the NI Region Association of General Commissioners of Income Tax. I am sure that her tax advice is always to maximise the Revenue’s rake, isn’t it?

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Anonymous Anonymous said... 10:51 am

Cassandra Consulting would be good on avoiding Horses full of armed militia ..she was right though , what’s the problem ?Could be worse


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Blogger Croydonian said... 10:59 am

Very impressive.

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Anonymous Anonymous said... 11:13 am

Why not,was Hercules ergonomically impaired ?

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Sorry I`ve ignored your story. Very good I expect the Guardian to feature it about this time next week  



Blogger Croydonian said... 11:24 am

I was going for the non-ironic this time round.

Or going for the blacker approach, the Uranus Parenting Institute and Hephaestus Relationship Guidance.  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 5:25 pm

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I have seen this somewhere. I am not sure that they knew the reference though.  



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