Posted Friday 9th January 2009 12:33 GMT
But government funded things tend to operate on:
- first we identify a framework of duties, responsibilities and personnel. Budget it then implement it.
- secondly we meet the targets now that the framework is in place.
There (usually) is no conception that changes can be implemented straight away without need for a budgeted framework?
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 16:07 GMT
....... We'll implement it by the time we're out of government for incompetence.
Good Skills Labour! If only the electorate had a long enough memory to remember the last 10 years of Labours 'Good Times' culminating in the greatest economic disaster of my lifetime..... after the conservatives have had a go at cocking it up.
Paris, because I'd honestly rather have her as Prime Minister than incompetent Brown
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 16:07 GMT
People used to think 'Yes Minister' was just comedy - It's reality!
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 16:07 GMT
They're storing all their data in "THE CLOUD!"™. It's backed up on thousands of criminals computers, all over the world, and can be recovered with a quick and simple police raid/hack attack!
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 16:07 GMT
Starting out with heroic optimism, drifting through delays 'which will shortly be rectified', through to eventual, inevitable waving of the white flag.
If this project can do what for the Revenue what prior projects have done for the Child Support Agency then I'm delighted to support this one-off waste of my tax money to cripple their ability to take anymore.
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 16:11 GMT
Why are they so inept?
I can't imagine that anyone with enough brain power to put on their own underwear would think that a 4 year cycle for a security review is just ridiculous.
Posted Friday 9th January 2009 16:11 GMT
...is that 2011 is safely past the next election, and as Poynter is a work-in-progress, we won't be able to say there's still an issue about data security until it's all been sorted.
Posted Monday 12th January 2009 14:50 GMT
... and HMRC can't even meet basic open standards, e.g. RFC2822 for e-mail.
Just try entering a perfectly legal e-mail address containing an ampersand (&) in the local part into one of their systems, and see what happens... you can happily swap e-mails with HMRC using that address (isn't the Internet kind?), but (Microsoft) GovTalk bans them. They're frightened that their Windows systems will fall over with fright at the thought of entering such heinous data into HMRC records as your e-mail address... :-(
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