Worried about being ripped off? You should be once this agency is axed...
Consumer Focus is one of the more controversial quangos to face the chop. Set up to champion and protect the ordinary Joe in the face of any wrongdoings from big business, if the watchdog is scrapped as planned it will be left to volunteers to investigate multi-million pound consumer complaints.
Financial journalist Martin Lewis tore into the decision today on Radio Five – well worth a listen. Click here: Martin_Lewis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/oct/14/consumer-watchdog-scrapped-quangos-cut