Yet there is a second consideration. Some quangos are necessary. We may not need Dame Suzi Leather, but we certainly need a Charity Commission. We also need to have the BBC regulated (preferably effectively) until such times as the Tories privatise it. It will be awfully tempting for the Tories to emulate Labour and replace one lot of cronies with another. Given the contempt in which the electorate now holds those in public life, this is a temptation to be manfully resisted. There is no point in Mr Cameron replacing one of Mr Brown's useless mates with one of his own. Those jobs that have to be filled should be filled with people who can do them well, irrespective of political allegiance. The select committee hearing system is valuable in this respect and should be continued and beefed up. It has to have teeth, to see off any latter-day Ballses. Similarly, Mr Cameron should try not to put piles of his chums straight into the House of Lords, which would only further devalue that institution. He will find that cross-bench peers there will enable him to get most of his legislation through, and should allow natural wastage to reduce the size of the upper house just as he plans to reduce the lower.