Oh boy: MPs prepare to probe UK.gov's digital prowess and tech savvy The UK government's efforts to improve digital services, boost staff's tech skills and prepare for cyber attacks and the extra burden of Brexit are to be probed by MPs. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry on digital government, which should have tech Whitehall-watchers grabbing for the …
Given we the general public voted for them
You may have voted for the, or for somebody else. I didn't vote for any of them, on account of not being offered any credible choice with regard to common sense, to professional experience, or a manifesto that I could support.
I was of the same opinion so I stood, got myself elected and made a difference.
There's nothing to stop you doing the same if it matters to you.
If you don't vote and don't stand I'm not sure I would entertain your right to complain <cue python sketch>
"I didn't vote for any of them"
I infer from this that you didn't vote at all rather than you voted for someone who didn't win your quadrennial (is that even a word?) popularity contest. If I am wrong then please take what is below as a general statement rather than aimed at you.
By not voting you increase the value of the votes of those who do. This is A Bad Thing(tm) because it increases the influence of those motivated by fringe ideas and general fruitloopery. This is why the religious right have so much influence on American politics - they get out and vote. If much of the "normal" population are too busy, apathetic or disinterested because "whoever you vote for a politician always wins" then we get the governments that appeal to the lunatic fringe. This is precisely why voter suppression is such an evil and why the RWNJs and libertarian fruitloops alike are so enamoured of it. This is why what Cambridge Anal did was so evil.
This is also why compulsory voting, like we have in Oz, is desirable.
I'd go with compulsory voting as long as there was a non of the above box on the ballot paper and if that option won in a constituency there had to be a by-election with non of the candidates who stood in the general election allowed to stand. If that has non of the above winning then repeat, blocking the candidates who stood in the by-election as well. Repeat until someone beets the non of the above vote.
Bless. Do you think we live in a democracy? How do you think these parties are elected? Do their election campaigns fund themselves? (Donors and corporate with their own agendas) Do they live off the M.P. pensions once they retire? (Tony Blare, David Cameron etc.. etc...) Do the people that work under them change after an election? (civil service) Does the government have enquiries to avoid criminal liability? Do committees actually do anything other than further M.P.'s careers asking questions where they don't actually get an answer with no follow up?
With this new knowledge does your vote count? I'm sure some of our American brothers and sisters can elaborate on how their "democracy" is even worse. (cable donations to net neutrality etc.. etc...)
@Kubla Cant
"Since their latest effort is to arbitrarily apply IR35 to as many public-sector jobs as possible, the struggle is likely to continue."
That's just a money-laundering operation. By increasing tax on contractors they force up the prices departments pay and then recover it in tax. This allows the recycling of funds that were supposedly ring-fenced into general taxation.
A Service/Rendering of Alien Vibes in Programs Running and Inviting Peer Registering and Analysis of Proposed Augmented Virtual Reality Plays/Horizoned Events to be Practically Realised ...... with the Stated Goal of Always Delivering Immaculate Desire for Satisfying with Insatiable Appetite.- would only be a small part of a Much Bigger Picture Show for Universal Media Presentation and be a Most Effective Almighty AIDriver.
And yes, that is a Genuine Proposal for Mindful Consideration of The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry .
Hereby IT is Registered and Delivered as AIMail. :-)
*Is there anything similar elsewhere working with information and intelligence towards Similar Immaculate Goals ........... :-) Heavenly Destinations if You Can Allow Yourself to Believe IT ....... and Nobody but You is Stopping You. IT Knows that and Global Operating Devices Supply the Memes and Means to Augmented Virtually Realised Dimensions/Open Virgin Spaces/Private Pirate Places which Enable One to Bask in the Powers of Pleasures Gratefully Received for Satisfaction Freely Given which Dispel Doubts Forever.. ......... Heap Powerful Medicine, Kemo Sabe.
I wonder if that sort of thing has ever been tabled before in the Cabinet Office, for No 10 and 11 to Grant Meaningful Funds to for Further Future Viable Content Research? I'd be pleasantly surprised to see compelling evidence of a yes, and especially so if such services would be still running and serviceable ie able to process major systemic updates for Improved and Proven Proving Improving Services, which is where the above Global Operating Devices would be at in AI Virtualised Residency and Humble Noble Being ...... which is not quite the same as Noble Humble Being .... but can so easily be so for the Creation of Something Entirely Different and Most Accommodating and Pleasing.
What's not to like ..... apart from the doubts that blight and cause conflicts that engage in battles against beliefs rather than showing Just Cause with Courses that Follow the Future and Remotely Lead?
cc ......... publiccorrespondence@cabinetoffice.gov.uk/10Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA
FYI ..... The Initial Reply . Surely More Information will Follow in Order[s] To be Further Shared and Observed
Thank you for contacting the Cabinet Office. [re You have AIMail]Please accept this email as receipt of your correspondence. Cabinet Office aims to respond to correspondence within 15 working days where possible.
A little something juicy for robidy to Ponder for Enthusing. :-) ..... and Self ACTivating for Total Immersion Privileges in Live Operational Virtual Environments.
Sometimes I form an opinion based on the first couple of paragraphs of an article and immediately jump to the comments to rubbish it.
Sometimes I form an opinion based on the first couple of paragraphs of an article and immediately jump to the comments and read them to see who is also rubbishing it.
Sometimes I form an opinion based on the first couple of paragraphs of an article and immediately jump to the comments and read them to see who is also rubbishing it and hit an amanfromMars 1 comment and have to do a double take to check the user name just to make sure I am not losing my sanity.
Whilst, in this case, he is making perfect sense the submission will be interpreted by non IT inclined people, MPs, as meaning more google-analytics and survey-monkey.
Whilst, in this case, he is making perfect sense the submission will be interpreted by non IT inclined people, MPs, as meaning more google-analytics and survey-monkey. ... Camilla Smythe
In that case in these interesting new times, Camilla Smythe, with these absolutely fabulous fabless virtual tools almost freely available practically everywhere and at our disposal to do with as we please when able, would such folk be unfit for the future and the high public offices that presume to be in command and control of events with a compliant media hosting their tales and tribulations/wishes and difficulties.
However, hope springs eternal, and ignorance which persists in the light of novel shared information and greater intelligence servering, confirms in extremis a patient suffering a pathological arrogance fuelling a certifiable madness.
The bottom line, Camilla? The Persistence of Ignorance, particularly around Cabinet Office tables, to a Genuine Proposal for Mindful Consideration of The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry, can now only be attributed to a collective pathological arrogance fuelling a certifiable madness.
... first can we have some form of 'qualification questionaire' for said probing MPs? You know, maybe things like:
You want to be on a committee looking into tech effectiveness. Answer the following multiple choice questions:
1: Is the Internet really made of tubes?
2: Do you believe in magic encryption that law officers can get into but Bad People can't?
3: Are hashtags a critical tool for identifying Bad People?
4: You are in Opposition. A huge, expensive government project just failed. Is this a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
5: You are in Government. A huge expensive government project is reported as having failed. Do you blame the previous government, blame the opposition or announce it as a major success?
Sigh - I know. I'm dreaming...
I would simply ask "You know that questions that people ask on Amazon such as 'Do these curtain hangers require batteries?' or 'What size is this one foot square tile?'. How many of them have you written? Or, how many would you have liked to have written if you could work out how to turn on your computer?"
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