This evening I embarked on an exercise even more pointless than Police Community Support Officers. A task so obsolete that it should have been confined to the dustbin of history decades ago.
This evening I lost half an hour of my life by completed the Census form (unless you're reading from the Office for National Statistics, in which case I actually completed it two weeks from now on 27th March). Do I feel satisfied that I have done my bit to lubricate the wheels of Government officiousness? Not one bit.
We live in a nation where the average urban dweller is captured by CCTV no less than 300 times each day. As Britons we're in the unenviable position of being tracked as we walk the streets, tracked as we drive our cars and even tracked when we buy our daily newspapers.
The personal information of every legal entity in Britain already adorns numerous Government databases, so why can't they cross match the invasive records they already hold?
It's time to bury the Census once and for all.
Plus think of all the money we could save by getting rid of those ONS civil servants!
This evening I lost half an hour of my life by completed the Census form (unless you're reading from the Office for National Statistics, in which case I actually completed it two weeks from now on 27th March). Do I feel satisfied that I have done my bit to lubricate the wheels of Government officiousness? Not one bit.
We live in a nation where the average urban dweller is captured by CCTV no less than 300 times each day. As Britons we're in the unenviable position of being tracked as we walk the streets, tracked as we drive our cars and even tracked when we buy our daily newspapers.
The personal information of every legal entity in Britain already adorns numerous Government databases, so why can't they cross match the invasive records they already hold?
It's time to bury the Census once and for all.
Plus think of all the money we could save by getting rid of those ONS civil servants!
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