One must ask ones self
If they're promising all this now, why haven't they done it for the last 7 years?
UK Tory party pledges 'digital' charter, wants Verify to back online gov
The Conservatives have pledged to introduce a digital charter in the party's manifesto today, which also rehashes a number of familiar-sounding ideas about “digital by default” government and backs the failing identity authentication platform Verify. Under the section entitled “Prosperity and security in a digital age”, the …
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Thursday 18th May 2017 14:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: One must ask ones self
One has to surmise that the only way Government will do anything it is elected on is to have elections once a year or pass a law that promises must be fulfilled with reasonable exceptions.
I also see that Chancellor May is also not to be outdone by a previous PM known as the milk snatcher by taking away primary school kids lunches harming the lowest in society who already have to use food banks even while working.
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Friday 19th May 2017 07:04 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: One must ask ones self
I was a recipient of free milk too, and loved it! Never had any problems with milk being off, and I always volunteered to deal with any extras left over, sometimes consuming thee or four bottles of the stuff. Just about the only happy memories I have of school, outside of science lessons.
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Friday 19th May 2017 06:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: One must ask ones self
In Australia, in summer, the free milk was dreaded. It sat all morning non-refrigerated. Consumption was mandatory except for two kids who only drank goats milk.
Invariably there were calls for the 'bucket of sand'....to cover the { barf }
Probably why I only like my milk ICE cold.
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Friday 19th May 2017 09:08 GMT Rich 11
Re: One must ask ones self
My missus was the recipient of free milk in schools and said they dreaded it as there was no refrigeration in the school and so the milk was always warm and just about going off.
Never had that problem. The delivery bloke left the crates stacked up against the north wall, permanently in the shade and where the gentle breeze wafting off the North Sea kept it at a perfect drinking temperature.
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Thursday 18th May 2017 18:42 GMT macjules
Re: One must ask ones self
Because one must realise that one is about to experience a General Election and in the run up to said election
criminalspoliticians tend to forget their promises, where they left the microphone and occasionally where they left their trousers.As for the "right to be forgotten", didn't the Tories already do that to the rest of the UK that isn't a part of the Home Counties?
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Thursday 18th May 2017 14:17 GMT a cynic writes...
Re: Uncle Rupert gets his Reward
Not just Rupe...that nice Mr Hislop will be rather chuffed at not having to pay the other sides costs on the rare occasions that Private Eye wins. In fact most of the press will like that one, even the non-Tory bits.
Not that that would have been a calculation...
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Thursday 18th May 2017 14:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
"Local government will also be expected to publish data in open formats, anonymised and aggregated where necessary."
The other day, I was unlucky enough to download a copy of the minutes of a local council meeting in PDF. In the expenses section, was the clerk and deputy clerk's monthly salary, nicely blacked out. Which of course rendered it impossible to read. Until I tried highlighting it and copy pasting into a text document.
Trivial example, but the point being, I don't trust their ability to protect their own data, let alone other people's.
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Thursday 18th May 2017 16:07 GMT John Smith 19
"and ensure people can control their own data "
How they going to do that, given May and her predecessor Home Secretaries have provided over such a massive and ongoing theft of voters data already.
Or the DPA, whose quality is so s**t that an FOIA request to explain how s**t it is would "Endanger Brexit negotiations."
British readers. Go tactical. If you like your MP, vote for them. If you don't, find out who was the runner up party last time and vote for their candidate. Remember you can vote for nobody, but you'd better not start bi**hing about their policies afterward.
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Thursday 18th May 2017 16:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
ID for voting
There's also a mention in the manifesto of requiring ID to vote.
Bearing in mind there is the poorest people don't have driving licenses and many do not have passports - what is this ID going to be?
Am I being paranoid in thinking the Home Office has disinterred an ID card 'consultation' document from the same crypt where they keep former Home Secretaries and is bringing it lurching back to life?
Or is it a good old American-style disenfranchisement exercise where you make it practically impossible for the wrong sort of people to vote?
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Thursday 18th May 2017 23:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: ID for voting
See also:
-Ending automatic registration of students in university halls
-Ending automatic registration of children coming of age in the run up to an election
-Ending the ability to register a whole household in a single form
All of these things, like the voter ID proposals, disproportionately impact people who don't vote tory. Make of that what you will.
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Friday 19th May 2017 07:50 GMT Wandering Reader
Re: ID for voting
"Bearing in mind there is the poorest people don't have driving licenses and many do not have passports - what is this ID going to be?"
It will be pretty much identical to the Northern Ireland system, I expect - that system has been running smoothly for a couple of decades now. Simply put, people without a Passport or a driving licence can apply for an a electoral identity card. People in that situation would apply for the card when they first register to vote.
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Thursday 18th May 2017 16:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
In related news
The government's secret public consultation on encryption ends tomorrow. You still have time to tell the Home Office where to stick its keys:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press/releases/2017/secret-consultations-have-no-place-in-open-government
You can mail the Home Office consultation at:
investigatorypowers@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk.
(They'd really rather you didn't - especially if you know more about encryption than the Home Secretary*)
* You know more about encryption than the Home Secretary.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
