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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the pace of things happening is just too fast and I should try to tie a few bits together knowing it’s all going to be out of date before I hit publish.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 →

Digital Economy Bill – Petiton Harriet

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Currently the Digital economy bill, is still trundling it’s way through parliament without any proper debate or anyone much taking a look at it. On Thursday Harriet Harman will have to explain the Government’s plans for this bill so before then write to her and ask that it be given proper time for a full debate. This in case you’ve forgotten is the bill that will block access to websites and cut off your internet access for alleged copyright infringement whilst at the same time allow anyone to make use of your photographs for anything if they think it’s an … Continue reading →