Comments on: Property of UK plc

By: HrothgarOfHeorot

HrothgarOfHeorot — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:02:02 +0000

Just think of the database in which they stuck your fingerprints/faceprints as Gordon Brown’s Domesday Book.

By: bellagerens

bellagerens — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:17:19 +0000

Duly noted and changed – thanks, bro. I hope we don’t have to wait 850 years to read that book; I’m sure my old age will be all the better for a bit of satirical levity. Assuming satirical levity won’t have been banned by then.

By: HrothgarOfHeorot

HrothgarOfHeorot — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:37:56 +0000

I think that the only solace we have today is that our chapter in the yet-to-be-written 1944 And All That will be particularly hilarious.

Also, third paragraph, first line says “there” when it ought to say “their.” Just lookin’ out for you, Sis.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:36:59 +0000

And I can’t even type properly and am too lazy to check my work-where’s my civil service job?!

By: ted

ted — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:35:57 +0000

Jaysus, yet another example of bungling on a grand scale, albeit with more sinister undertones ar.e. where your data ends up.

I’m now firmly of the opinion that the industrial revolution, and our subsequent exploitation of it to build an Empire, is a historical anomaly based on our luck that it happened t us. Everything since then has pointed towards the fact that as a nation, we’re petty, small minded, and have very little skill in organsising anything on a scale grander than getting hammered on Saturday nights.
I should add that I’m an expert in the latter, and am thoroughly disorganised in every other aspect. Maybe I should run a large government project, I seem to have all the skills.

By: Peter McFarlane

Peter McFarlane — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:35:30 +0000

“Is the Home Office removing their data from the database and destroying it?”

As the fellow said, you cannot be serious.

The UK Stasi never gives up any data – even when ordered to by the European Court of Human Rights.

You’re stuck. Did they take your DNA too? If so, that’ll be on their illegal database for ever.

By: wh00ps

wh00ps — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:36:23 +0000

handwriting analysts? don’t make me laugh. I doubt it would have made any difference if somebody else turned up for you. I’d imagine the only time they’d have realised their mistake is if there was any p sort of investigation, and then not until the press pointed it out to them.

I’m sure also that they do keep all the data, as I’m convinced that they have decided(or been instructed) that A Really Big Database is a Good Thing To Have without ever considering what they want it FOR.

By: Vicola

Vicola — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:42:41 +0000

The Home Office show a level of incompetence so complete that the left hand doesn’t know what the right one is doing? I refuse to believe it. As our beloved government is always telling us, the home office is very efficient and you need to be fingerprinted and scanned and have a chip put in your forehead because of ‘terrorists’ and ‘national security’ see? If we don’t microchip you then clearly someone is going to nuke Milton Keynes off the map in the middle of the night. Obviously.

By: nbc

nbc — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:25:02 +0000

That office is just begging for a re-run of the “I’m Spartacus” scene…