...right, but the problem with unaccountable power is that the public won't accept that in some cases. The reason why politicians didn't want it is because the

...right, but the problem with unaccountable power is that the public won't accept that in some cases. The reason why politicians didn't want it is because the ECB will almost certainly destroy itself if they go too far down this route (imo, it is already too late, the ECB are doing things that no reasonable person could think is sensible outside the context of bolstering a political union...ironically, you seem to assume that technocrats have no political aims...this isn't the case). The reason why the Tories introduced the cancer fund was because NICE refused to pay for cancer drugs that worked. The reason why it is was only for cancer was because there were a large number of new drugs that were effective for cancer and NICE refused to sanction them. The only other group of drugs in a similar place was epilepsy, but the number of people who require this medication is significantly smaller (as in, there is one or two people in the UK who need a certain drug). Btw, the reason why NICE don't like spending money on drugs is because that is money that isn't going to staff wages (those unbiased technocrats again). Btw, there is a govt full of technocrats...China. Everything there is run very efficiently: the corruption, the concentration camps, tracking of political dissidents...all very efficient.