Lousy government happens wherever and whenever you have government. Sometimes government is the best way of getting things done (i.e. the military) but always in the context that it is lousy but where the lousiness outweighs the bad points of the alternatives.

When you have a government strategy for dance:
http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/20151/burnham-steps-up-youth-dance-support-by
then you can be sure that you've gone too far in the lousy direction.

Yes, a whole government department squandering hundreds of millions of £££ of tax payers money on culture, media and sport. For feck's sakes.

Let's all be treeeees