Via Freeborn John, yet another staggering intrusion by the state into our private lives:
More than 500,000 people a year are to be questioned about their sex lives and salaries by Government inspectors, it has emerged.
Sigh… The bastards want to know the ins and outs of everything. Is nothing sacred?
Officials will ask for information about former sexual partners, contraception and how long couples have lived together before getting married.
The 2,000-question survey, which will be carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), has prompted fears of further data security breaches as both names and addresses will be logged by inspectors.
The thought that went through my mind was echoed by Juliam commenting on FBJ’s piece:
…what happens of every one of those selected 500,000 people simply tells the researcher to fuck off…?
Should any inspectors be knocking on the door of the Longrider abode, that is exactly the response they will get.
I refuse to blow a gasket… I refuse to blow a gasket… I…
How do I apply for a shotgun licence?
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Id suspect the ONS are going to target the existing households that take part in their ongoing analysis.
As one of those households who takes part (but doesnt divulge stuff like financial info), they will certainlt get a resounding “fuck off” from me if they ask these questions.
Kryten, yes, possibly so. We were targeted last year for the house condition survey. I gave them short shrift on that occasion. That being so, I doubt they will try again.
You could of course choose to make mischief depending on whether the survey is anchored to you personally.
The admission of predilection for sex in a Catherine the Great style might ruffle a few feathers! Or that you have been a serial gang-banger for decades…!
Telling them to naff off whilst right and proper will just get them to go to someone else who will probably be dragged out of bed early in the morning and too tired to resist. Whilst wrecking the efficacy of such an endeavour may make them think twice about future such draconian schemes.
Well, that’s true enough… However, the message that I really want to get across loud and clear to those charged with asking the questions is that the state should not even be contemplating asking for this information and I suspect that a straightforward refusal made often enough would hopefully have that effect.
The surveyor who called last year had a somewhat resigned approach when I refused – I got the distinct impression that I wasn’t the first.
Still, it would be amusing. 😉
Questions expecting the answer “No, Do you want your teeth smashed in?!”
I think most of us regardless of our economic orientation 😉 can agree that the State can piss off when it comes to such shite and their lack of any genuine need to know it.
Because tell me insurance firms aren’t going to be desperate to get their hands on that sort of information…
Well, of course they will – big business is pretty much in the pocket of the state. The two feed off each other.
We’ll get you back the other side of that axis you see if we don’t!