Wormtongue Speaks
Sir Jeremy Heywood has rather intriguingly penned a piece for today’s Indy, stepping into the public eye to plug his ‘crusade’ for open government. As ever Wormtongue was at his disconcerting best:
“For as many years as Britain has had a centralised civil service we have been rather good at collecting information. From the first censuses in 1801 to the creation of the Central Statistical Office by Winston Churchill, the amount of information gathered and held by Government has exponentially increased as our society has become more complex. Today we hold raw information on everything from pupil performance by class, crime levels on every street in the country and the success rate for every single operation in your local hospital. We can even tell at the touch of a button how late your train into work is likely to be.”
Big Brother is watching you…
I left a golden economy.
Sorry, I mean I gave the economy a golden shower.
Even Gordon Brown wasn’t mad enough to make Ed Balls Chancellor
Don’t forget the Cleveland Steamer.
I agree about what she tweets about faith schools.
These days they are no longer convents; all gone to madrassahs every one.. When will they ever learn etc..
I do all i can to avoid watching Big Brother, but i can do nowt about big brother watching me.
Truly profound, B1lly.
When did you last have a bath?
Nominated for biggest pratt of 2012
sex and drugs and rawk,n,roll.
50 shades win award.
the drug of the elite, meddling in wars, this time syria, commeth.
when elite throw us a rock they are on a roll.
be a charioteer. rein in your energy.
experience it.
The Dulux paint card was a worthy winner.
Yes you can.
1. You can watch them, and then use their procedures to complain and make a fuss.
2. Publish what you see them doing. Drip drip drip it will bring them into contempt.
see MP’s continual fraud on expenses. Still at it.
3. Push for release of information such as this
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171766_263808.pdf
4.7 trillion of debt hidden off the books. Treasury say they know nowt. Liars.
I can easily accept that the Treasury know nowt.
You can go to torproject.org and download Tor. That keeps the state off your back.
Camoron’s £1.8billion ‘super snooper’s’ system trashed in under 5 minutes, and for free.
That won’t protect you from us opening your emails in 2015.
We don’t have any trains here…
Or gas, or mobile phone signals, come to think of it.
Only a British civil servant would consider being able to let you know that your train is likely to be late to be some kind of noteworthy achievement.
A British civil servant would be appalled that anybody kept people informed.
We have trains – every 15 mins to Lpool Central and with a 98.5% punctuality rate. Of course I can ride on them for free.
And of course we share any sensitive information with our investment banking masters
Actually, we share your information with anyone who can tap into our woefully protected servers.
That includes your HMRC income tax account.
or with anyone who travels on the train.
some are accidents, some are signs of incompetence and others are by design
I have all the confidential information any bank would want
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7133843.stm
We share it between my bank and Tony’s bank you see
Please keep my seat warm at the Bank Jonathan
I have form you know
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2007/06/a_new_and_vital.html
He is a thick as a plank. The colossal logistic tail of civil servants, which is running into millions, garnering this info may as well be sitting at home twiddling their thumbs for all the good they are doing. I would be surprised if 5% of the data is actually used practically which beggars the question Why TF are we paying billions to civil servants to gather it in the first place?
I’d be surprised if more than 5% of that selected for use was accurate – as opposed to rigged to fit the policy being proposed or justified.
Anyone seen a red USB stick lying around anywhere?
Sir Humphrey Appleby is smiling from heaven……
It’s so funny how Heywood tries to make the civil service sound like a futuristic super-agency – every employee the top-gun in his or her field, processing vast quantities of data using state-of-the-art technology to further human understanding and quality of life.
When in real life it’s the exact opposite.
How true, the ‘civil servants’ I’ve seen seem to all come from the same genetic pool, fat women with a too high an opinion of their role, lazy and crap at the actual job. Their main function is to delay, lose and cock up any task given to them, whilst shoveling handfuls of ‘indulgence treats’ down their gobs sat at their desks.
All the data in the world won’t help UK Plc. in the shit storm of the next 5 years, we’re bust and our elite know it. They just want to fool the moron majority that the ‘good times’ will come back if you just hang on a bit longer. Utter bollocks and they know it.
Small government, even smaller tax, pull out of the EU and restore the sovereignty Parliament.
So much information, and no intelligence whatsoever.
I worked in an office where I could not communicate with my staff upstairs as we were on different computer systems!
Civil Service
A fast breeding reactor that needs ever increasing amounts of
moneyfuel, while delivering decreasing amounts of efficiency.Indeed but still no one can predict when my wife will say ” Yes “
Heywood; Usurper of democracy. Traitor to the British people. EU lickspittle.
I long to see him swinging from a lamp post on Whitehall.
You dont know 1% of that mans venality and treachery yet. His sole purpose is to stop the British regaining control of their country, parliament and democracy.
A dangerous man – an extremist at the heart of our Government who has the sworn intention to end our sovereignty.
Just the one?
Wowee! Jeremy Heywood’s Dad was an English teacher at my school his “rabble” (offensive nickname) was “worm”.
Media blackout re: Rebekah Brooks’ court appearance today. Application for charges dismissal >> http://www.courtserve2.net/courtlists/current/crown/sthwk_T121205.01.htm …
OH !!!!!!!!
Tom Watson is a slug.
‘Scuse me mate, we are very particular whom we allow in.
Society has not become more complex. Government has just made it feel that way, that’s all.
You go to work, and hope to have enough left over after tax to have a half decent quality of life free from state interventions.
Harder and harder to do.
be local…. be simple…. be open.
as the elite become globerati,,, we need to be the opposite.
switch the tele visual device OFF.
create your own image, dream your own image, nah, get in touch with the one image in you that define you, that is your mission statement…..what you get irresistably pulled towards when the tele is off and you feel safe and nourished.
No TV license paid in this household, thanks.
I watch about 2 hours a month average, online. In the unlikely event there is something on I actually give one about watching.
I challenge anyone to not watch TV for two weeks. Then be honest about how it makes you feel when you go back to it – it is a machine designed to induce irritation, anxiety and pointless consumption.
I lived in the boondocks in Africa for 4 years and we had no telly at all. Can’t say I missed it actually.
You’re all full of shit!
We know what you had for breakfast but we haven’t a clue about how many illegal immigrants are here.
Ok big head, what’s my dog’s name ?
Labour are a party of negativity and no viable solutions to anything.
All that information to hand and still posh boys Cameron and Osborne don’t know how much a pint of milk costs.
What about all the information on hand that Man-made Global Warming is nothing but a product of the febrile imaginations of socialist mongs, but Camoron’s still allocated £2,000,000,000 of OUR money to ‘wind farms in Africa’. Whilst cutting healthcare in the UK.
How many people sick people in Britain are going to DIE for lack of treatment because of Camoron frittering-away £2,000,000,000 on African windfarms?
Camoron = c**t.
Cutting healthcare in the Divided Kingdom? No, it’s only England where that’s happening. Health is a devolved issue.
But Dave told us at PMQs today that this sort of carry on only happened in Labour controlled councils in Wales.
Guido
The scandals are coming so thick and fast that it is difficult to keep up with them
Just look at this friend of “Lord” Mandelscum of “Ethics and Lizards”…
Chairman of HBOS but not reponsible
Gets life peerage and runs of with millions.
Leave multi billion pound bill for the taxpayer to pick up
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2243127/Don-t-blame-HBOS-fiasco-I-just-working-time—says-ex-boss-paid-815-000-Former-bank-chairman-blasted-MPs-peers.html
Is there no limit to the oibscenity of these people?
PS And the CEO of HBOS Crosby got a promition after doing the same thing to become Deputy Chaierman of the Financial Services Authority which was “responsible” for stopping this zombie behaviour…
I am getting filthy rich boys
I know I ran the biggest Ponzi scheme in British history
But you have tyo pay it all off
And the bankers still love me
Toodlie poo
I am so intensely relaxed my sphincters muscles are like jelly
I thought I had replaced those “muscles” with one of my special pink plastic anuses, reserved for dignitaries like you…
London Last Night: Anna Friel’s nipples warn passersby of impending cold snap http://www.holymoly.com/celebrity/pictures/london-last-night-anna-friels-nipples-warn-passersby-impending-cold-snap65289 …
Excellent
I think I will put her titties on my front page
Or should I send these photos to the Huffington Post to titillate their non-Tatler readers…
PS On second thoughts, they seem to be dropping a bit, don’t you think?
Cold milk is said to be very refreshing…
The next big thing in TVs: 84in set is wider than a car (and at £22,500, it costs as much).
Now available on benefits.
So every household in Tottenham will have one by the weekend.
Yes, the guarantees on all the ones they nicked last year expire in 10 days.
How can someone so fecking large and rotund be the shallow public health minister?
Diane,
Put the fork down, for pities sake.
Think of your son, at that posh school.
Imagine how it is for him when what looks like a mountain of blancmange in an industrial bin bag turns up?
And try to think of the starving children in Africa when you over consume at the taxpayers expense.
Diane, reach for a pickle instead of a pie.
Special K is a load of bollocks. Do none of you recall the scandal a few years ago when they were tested against normal corn flakes for sugar content etc and found to be just as bad. Special K is just a marketing ploy to make you feel good about yourself, but you might as well tuck into the real thing anyway.
“From the first censuses in 1801″
What about the Domesday Book of 1086?
And didn’t the Romans hold a census?
Only so the baby Jesus could have a fairy tale place of birth. They weren’t counting heads – especially four by twos. Only Roman citizens qualify to be counted.
They probably did, but the population then was something under a million – not 62+ like we have these days.
Quite right. Train timetables are a gross violation of train operators’ privacy rights.
Had to catch a bus the other day and I could not make any sense of the timetable, all i can sy is that Mrs Joans down the road should enter brain of Britain.
We don’t need timetables. Our trains from where I live are 4 per hour to Liverpool and increase to 8 per hour at Birkenhead North and 12 per house at Hamilton Square.
At 12 per house there can’t be much room in the dining room. All aboard.
“Today we hold raw information on everything from pupil performance by class, crime levels on every street in the country and the success rate for every single operation in your local hospital. We can even tell at the touch of a button how late your train into work is likely to be.”
And yet they believe knowing all those figures will somehow make incompetent policies begin to work. No. It just provides a steady stream of evidence for the civil service and policy wonks to cherry pick from.
Transparency over what the state is collating is good and they can save money by collecting less data.
Why bother trying to save money? Seriously. Why are we bothering? Whenever Camoron saves money, he sits back and thinks, “wow! By scrapping some of our defences, I’ve saved £2billion!” and then the money starts to burn his little fingers until he leaps from his chair and exclaims, “f*ck it, I’ll blow that £2billion on African windfarms.”
Article in the Independent? Simply Heywood looking to further expand his influence with his left wing cronies. It was a bad day when the civil service gained access to Information Technology systems.
but they truly appreciate them, they are happy to pay a lot more than the original price.
the purpose of money is to show appreciation and the uncivil masterly elite certainly use money correctly.
That’s the whole point – they don’t understand or use technology – they’d rather rely on the Downing Street cat to do the real work of government!
If their input typing is up to the general standard on here, it is no wonder we are, in the words of one of his ex-colleagues, truly f****d.
BBC News “Final day to claim EuroMillions lottery prize of £64 million”.
In other news, George Osborne is desperately looking through Government bins for £64 million lottery ticket.
Lucky for us most of the people who hold all of the data are innumerate tossers!
Curious an organisation with such a wealth of information available “at the touch of a button” has such great difficulty distinguishing its arse from its elbow.
Does it tell them when they can f*ck off?
The people with the fight the Big Brother zombie.
we know everything but strangely missed that world financial crisis thingumy