Missing
On a day when the biggest news in the UK is yet another almighty cock-up by our illustrious leaders, I have to say this - God, I am proud to be British.
For those of you who haven’t watched the news, or who don’t live in the ‘best country ever’ this is a brief summary of what happened.
To apply for benefits/welfare/whatever you want to call it - you have to fill in a form that is about 4000 pages thick and asks for every piece of information about yourself that you can think of (Question 962 - where did you go on holiday when you were 4, and what flavour, if any, ice cream did you eat?) including your name, address, date of birth and, oh yeah, your bank details. You know all that info you protect so that nasty identity thieves don’t get there hands on it and rip you off. If you are applying for benefits for your children all their information goes on the forms - you know the information that you wouldn’t want any bad men getting their hands on like their names, addresses and dates of birth.
All of this is recorded and kept on huge databases by the HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) who dole out (usually the wrong amount of) money and don’t check facts (this links to a video). These databases now contain the details of 25million people, approximately 7.25million families…
They were put onto a disk (well, presumably series of disks) and sent to another office by ‘normal’ post - not recorded in any way. They never arrived. They are in fact, what’s the word?
Genius.
Oh, it gets worse. So the details of 25million of your public are out there (granted on password protected disks but, oh, come on!) so what do you do?
You say nothing for 10 days…
Not a bloody word.
Great.
And they want to bring in ID Cards?! Most people, right now, are thinking that their government is crazy… We want a bloody election and we want it now!
In other news - Billie Piper (yes, Rose from Doctor Who) is up for a porn award!
And I leave you on that note…
