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  1. XX We don’t answer the door to strangers, either.XX

    Write back and tell them you will bill them by the minute for your valuable time. (Do not forget to send them an invoice for the time spent in answering the letter, and for the stamp.)

  2. But isn’t that a perfect opportunity to bleed some common sense into government? They listen to ONS stats and you have the opportunity of giving opinions on behalf of thousands of people.

    Please do reconsider.

    • That’s not the kind of stuff they will be asking. It’s all about jobs, training, housing, pensions and such. None of which is any of their business. Also, my responses will have as much impact on policy as my vote – none at all. Surveys change nothing. So, yeah, there could be an opportunity to have a little wicked fun at their expense, but I really cannot be bothered.
      I have a policy when it comes to surveys – I don’t do them.

    • As a follow-up, I looked up the questions on the ONS website. They will be asking for personal details, name, DOB, gender, and so on. Then they will be asking about jobs, income, children, smoking, drinking, sexuality, training, pensions, ethnicity as well as details of the type of property and whether the respondent is buying, renting and so on. This year, they will be asking questions specific to military veterans.

      Precious little scope for injecting any libertarian poison into the machinery of the state there. it’s just prodnosing on a massive scale – and, frankly, the deeply personal nature of the questions means that I will be sticking to my guns and telling them to sod off.

  3. Oh, but LR! You might miss out on the opportunity to be part of their new “happiness scale” thingy where they can listen to all your answers saying how sick to death you are with everything they are doing and then tell you six months down the line how deliriously happy you really are!!! Just think how much better you’d feel …… 😈

    • See my comment to Dick above – tempting though it might be to infect a little poison into the system, I really don’t want to bother. I’ll just get irritated. I always do with this kind of stuff. I never do any surveys because ultimately, it changes nothing.

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