Last week I came across one of those news articles that makes you wonder if we're all just flying upside down. This headline comes from the UK Telegraph: "Council sets up scrutiny panel - to scrutinize its scrutiny panels"

A spokesperson from the Wealden District Council said a working party was established in July to oversee the decisions of its three existing scrutiny panels and to "scrutinize the Council's scrutiny arrangements." It sounds to me like the citizens of Wealden District are the ones getting scrutted…but I digress. The article continues:

Mark Wallace, from the Taxpayers Alliance, said: "Whilst it may be well-intentioned the council appear to have wrapped themselves up in knots and ended up in an absurd situation. By all means they should review their procedures but there's no reason why a separate committee to scrutinize the scrutiny panel should be any better than the original body itself…. Local residents would probably prefer they were asked how the council was run instead ...