First the good news.
The Census, the official population count carried out by the Government, is to be scrapped after more than 200 years, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
This is excellent news. The census is intrusive as the Tories were quick to point out when in opposition and is out of date almost as soon as the ink has dried on the page. We don’t need it and I fail to see why the government should want to poke about into deeply personal stuff – like who we are sleeping with.
Now the bad news.
It will be too late to prevent the next Census on March 27, 2011 from going ahead, although Mr Maude said he was looking at ways of reducing the £482million cost.
Ah… Now I may be being a little naïve here, but cancelling it really shouldn’t be that difficult. You just issue the edict. Okay, so money has already been wasted, but if this information isn’t necessary and is going to be out of date from the off, cancelling it now would be the sensible thing to do – not chucking good money after bad and all that.
Academics, charities and religious organisations all rely on information gathered in the Census as it asks wide-ranging questions relating to people’s households, nationality, faith and marital status.
I’m sure they do. It’s none of their fucking business, though.
Anyway, it rather looks as if the scary clown is right – a massive U turn is going on. I’m considering my options here. Whatever they are, it will not involve divulging the information these bastards demand. I might just not be in the country at the time…
It’s by Lockeed Martin and £1000 fine if you don’t do it.Says it all.
There are two things wrong with this census. One, it’s run by Mcdonnell Douglas, and why does an American military company need to know where we all live? Secondly, by not wishing to enter into a contract or otherwise deal with this private foreign company, you leave yourself open to the state-sponsored theft of 1000 of your English ££s