The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), which comes to life today, should of course be called the Nuclear Planning Commission.
The overriding reason this new quango was created by Labour is to prevent delays in the power station building programme.
The secondary unspoken reason is to transfer responsibility for making what are highly radioactive decisions as far away from the House of Commons as possible.
But in April Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Caroline Spelman, criticised the £9m a year cost of the IPC and called it a "bit of quango flab".
In September shadow energy minister Charles Hendry pretty much confirmed that a Conservative government would abolish the organisation.
That promise has irritated the CBI who came out yesterday in strong support of the IPC. The Conservative party's position is contrary to the view of anyone in the development sector who has ever been caught up in the timeless and costly world of a large-scale planning application.
Still, democracy rules: if they win, the Conservatives have indicated they will subsume IPC staff back into the planning inspectorate and give the final decision on projects to ministers.
So, a bit like the way it has worked up to now then. Unless of course the pair have a secret plan to speed up the process they would like to share with the world at next week's Tory party conference in Manchester ?
