And it gets worse. After government cuts last year killed off the FSCU, the Charity Commission announced that Minab would step in to continue the unit's work. What little regulation the dolts at the Charity Comission once provided has now gone.

If there is one site in the UK where anti-British sentiment is expressed most regularly (other than in universities) it is mosques. No church, synagogue or temple would last a second if the Christian, Jewish or Sikh equivalent of, say, al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki had preached there. Mosques are clearly worthy of concern.

But let us say that the Prime Minister has an omnipotent capability. And let us say that he uses it to stop funding to groups whose values are antithetical to this country.  How exactly will the order be carried out?

It should be obvious that Minab, the MCB and MAB are highly backward, sectarian organisations — exactly the sort of people to whom funding should not go to. So the DCLG and other departments could conceivably be persuaded to cut off any public funds going to them in future. But what about the Charity Commission? It has outsourced its regulatory role over mosques to a group whose founding members present exactly the same problem that Mr Cameron spoke about in Munich. There is very little likelihood that the funding will actually be cut so long as government departments and institutions which should implement the cutting of funding to sectarian groups are themselves in hock to, advised by, evaluated by, and have their work outsourced to exactly such groups.

A couple of months ago, I managed to get a bad man sacked from his role advising government. An article of mine highlighting the individual's activities made it to Eric Pickles's presumably capacious breakfast table. Perhaps this one will too. In which case Mr Pickles, and indeed Mr Cameron, will realise that the next job is far harder. Weeding rotten apples out of the system is easy compared to weeding a rotten system. But that is what is going to have to happen.  Whole arms of government are not able to do the job they are meant to do. If David Cameron's fine words in Munich are ever going to be put into action the government will have to recognise that fact — and change it.