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Towards a Smaller State
October 27th, 2009 | 
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Apparently in an opinion poll run by the Independent, some 67% agreed with the Conservative view that the State is too large and needs to be reduced in size. The Indy’s view was that the size mattered less than the efficiency of the delivery from Government, a rather odd view and out of touch with the times.
Politicians due to the public generally having the attention span of a gnat or if you prefer Tony Blair, a derivative life form I understand, reduce all arguments to simple slogans of which, “The State is too big” is an example. The real argument is rather more complex and any politician trying to tackle the “size issue” will soon get themselves into hot water if they are not very careful.
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White man has fire stick !
Data is a highly valuable commodity and yet this does not seem to have penetrated the conciousness of the Government and it’s employees which is little short of extraordinary in 2007. The current story of the “Taxman” loosing on two disks, a copy of a database containing the details of 15 million names, addresses, including children, is shocking but what it points to is both a totally wrong culture and bad line management.