........would seriously name part of its Budget monitoring process as a 'Star Chamber' ? The following is a desciption of the historical origin of the name from Wikipedia,"The Star Chamber was an English court of law at the royal Palace of Westminster that sat between 1487 and 1641, when the court itself was abolished. Its primary purpose was to hear political libel and treason cases.
In modern usage, legal or administrative bodies with strict, arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings are sometimes called, metaphorically or poetically, star chambers. This is a pejorative term and intended to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the proceedings."
Surely only a mad one like the Isle of Wight ! What next I wonder - The Inquisition perhaps?
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