Having been tagged in this meme, which so far has featured Ann Winteron, Henry VIII and helicopters, I fear my contribution is rather dull: it’s the £200,000 the United Kingdom Passport Agency had to spend to make its old computer system millenium compliant because of big problems with its new one (remember the huge passport delays of summer 1999?). And in the interests of keeping the internet neat and tidy, I won’t tag anyone else 🙂
Subscribe
-
Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
-
Like us on Facebook
-
Subscribe to our feed
-
Sign-up for our daily email digest
Most Read
Search
Op-eds
-
We do have a two tier system, Part 2 (Neil Hickman)
-
A Federal Britain: 3. Fiscal Federalism and a complete constitutional settlement (Iain Donaldson)
-
Tom Arms’ World Review (Tom Arms)
-
Liberal Voice for Women poll doesn’t say what they say it says (Tanya Park)
-
Alison Suttie writes: Thank you to our volunteers (Alison Suttie)
-
The Joy of Six 1529
-
Blondie: Sunday Girl
-
Liz Saville Roberts to Give the David Lloyd George Memorial Lecture at Gwyl Cricieth Festival
-
Richard Rhys O'Brien Gives Talk on Margaret Lloyd George - Photos
-
Labour deputy claims that Farage is a threat to democracy
-
Knaptoft: The very heart of England
-
Remembering Liz Truss and her dogs that barked at drones
-
We do have a two-tier policing system but it is not what our homegrown racists think it is.
Recent Comments
Mick Taylor
@Lawrence Cox. To read your comment one might want to believe that the Triple Lock has ensured pensioners have decent pensions. It hasn't and UK state pensions ...
Chloe
A Blue Labour response recent events in Hampshire. Well worth a read. https://www.paulembery.com/p/for-the-race-obsessed-british-state...
theakes
A new strategy/approach requires a new leader...
Kira Collins
You use the phrase “fiscal federalism” and “financial autonomy” but have not used the phase I had hoped to see that is drawn out of both: fiscal autonom...
Peter Martin
@Iain, "Without financial autonomy, political devolution is incomplete......." The problem, from a macroeconomic perspective, is that full finan...
2 Comments
Hey Mark, there’s a good story here for you to write several consecutive blog posts about. No, hang on, it’s a Lib Dem . . .
“…because of big problems with managing the transition to the new one” that should have been. I was caught in that fiasco and did some investigating: there were very serious management failures in the Passport organisation; I’m convinced that the new computer system worked within its spec. (And no, I have no connection with the supplier, but I do at times work with a small trade association appalled with the current public administration organisations here.)