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A poll you can influence

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Bella Gerens , has highlighted a poll over at Public Sector & Government News asking: “Should public sector workers have to pay more to maintain the value of their pensions?” Oddly the “no” votes are currently ahead, I’m guessing a lot of public sector workers have more of an interest in this than the rest of us, and have heard of the web site. So why not nip over and vote as Bella suggests? The poll is on the right hand side. Update Seems that publicservice.co.uk don’t appreciate people taking interest in their poll – the poor dears. +1-1

Viewscreens are coming

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This post is going to link to quite a few old articles as every time I’m about to write it something new adds to the pile of stuff that needs to be included. So it’s time I accepted the pace of things happening is just too fast and I should try to tie a few bits together knowing it’s all going to be out of date before I hit publish. The Government has a love hate relationship with the Internet, it loves the amount of data and control it could give over us but hates the fact that it allows … Continue reading →

In other news…

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Obviously the big story at the moment is four ministers taking cash for access the defence of which was that that they were variously lying or should not be given credibility (Guido has a petiton). So that’s reassuring then we don’t need to worry about ministers offering to take cash for access as they’re either mad or lying (or possibly both) – but still fit to govern whilst exceeding the government’s recommended weekly alcohol limit (which is much cheaper to do in the subsidised bars in the houses of Parliament). Whilst that’s been going on Gordon has re-announced plans to … Continue reading →