Saturday, January 20, 2007

Does the Government never learn? Not content with the fiasco of the £6 billion NHS database -- and just about every other database it has wasted our money on over the past decade its latest wheeze is to put all our information onto a super-database which could be accessed across Government departments. It isn't hard to guess what will happen: details your unpaid parking ticket made out to a car with a cloned registration plate in Weston-Super-Mare will be registered as an unpaid debt, to throw a spanner in the works when you apply, say, for a passport. Anyone out there want to share any tales of how they have descended into a nightmare world of bureaucracy because a Government department has got some inaccurate information on you? If you think it is bad now, just think what it will be like in future.