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Written by SDTR
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What is it with UK government agencies and information technology that we always end up with rubbish systems at massive cost?
In the last few days, I've been using the HM Revenue and Customs' corporation tax software to file a return and also direct.gov.uk's student finance site. Both are appalling and well below what we might reasonably expect for the massive amount of money pumped into the private companies that provide these terrible sites. I honestly believe that they cannot have tested these with any degree of competency.
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The Release of Al Megrahi |
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Written by SDTR
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This week has brought the shocking news that the so-called Lockerbie bomber, Libyan Abdulbaset al Megrahi who is dying of terminal prostate cancer, has been released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds to return to his home country.
There has been uproar in both the USA and Britain about the release and the subsequent hero's reception by the Libyans on his return.
What seems to have slipped from the public reporting is that Al Megrahi had to terminate his appeal proceedings in order to secure his release.
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Another Number 10 petition, this time inviting / demanding that the Prime Minister call a general election immediately. Surely, we all agree that this discredited Parliament needs a new mandate and that we should have the right to replace our dubious MP's? Click here to go straight the Number 10 site. |
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Written by SDTR
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Monday, 10 August 2009 09:09 |
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No, I don't mean the kind so frequently read about in the News of the World and which so often involves fancy dress, prostitutes and/or auto-erotic asphixiation.
I, of course, refer to the ridiculous system whereby the political parties force (whip) their member Members of Pariament to vote with the desires of their leaders rather than with their conscience, or even as their constituents might expect.
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Last Updated on Monday, 10 August 2009 09:28 |
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There are so many reasons that one might want Gordon Brown to go. Someone has started a petition on the Prime Minister's web site asking him to resign. The link is: click here If you have any doubt about how far the PM has departed from reality, watch his break-dancing smiling performance on YouTube: Smile Smile Smile. We deserve better. |
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