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home made placards for the 26th - slogan suggestions please.

I have actually made a placard! :eek: It has a rather "home made" (ie- ropey as fuck) feel to it.

"cut the war not the poor"

not very imaginative, but I don't want to stick out too much :hmm:
 
Yes people's lives ruined because we are spending too much on pointless bureaucracy, complex taxation over the top regulation. Money that could be spent on actual front line services being wasted in failed multi-billion pound IT projects.

FFS. You see, there's idiots like me, that were pissed off with Labour (Iraq etc etc) and thought the Lib-Dems were probably 'okay'. Protest vote pretty much. I can understand people being pissed off with that*, but it's a mistake born out of a naivity rather than evil. But to still be backing them now, and spouting the kind of crap above, is a different matter entirely. Over the top regulation? Are you fucking kidding?

I don't get it. If you want to be a tory, why not just be a fucking tory? Is is just that yellow matches your eyes better?

*Fortunately my vote didn't count for fuck all as Alan Whitehead kept his seat.
 
failed multi-billion pound IT projects.

Name one.

The bits of NPfIT which were paid for (PACS, N3, NHS mail) all worked. The stuff that has been more problematic (care records) is only being paid for as milestones get reached. Or not, of course.

The National Identity Scheme didn't fail: it was axed for political reasons. Actually, to appease liberty fetishists like you.

Of recent government IT projects that didn't do too well - rural payments, DWP payments platform, child maintenance, courts records management - none were multi-billion pound projects. All were enormously tricky pieces of applications development, of a kind that can often go tits up because they are unique (and of course, subject to bewildering levels of specification change along the way), but none came anywhere close to nine figures.
 
I'd like to see 'We're all in this together' thrown back at them on a placard. Above a crowd of thousands.
 
FFS. You see, there's idiots like me, that were pissed off with Labour (Iraq etc etc) and thought the Lib-Dems were probably 'okay'. Protest vote pretty much. I can understand people being pissed off with that*, but it's a mistake born out of a naivity rather than evil. But to still be backing them now, and spouting the kind of crap above, is a different matter entirely. Over the top regulation? Are you fucking kidding?

I don't get it. If you want to be a tory, why not just be a fucking tory? Is is just that yellow matches your eyes better?

*Fortunately my vote didn't count for fuck all as Alan Whitehead kept his seat.

yellow matches the lily white of his liver.

An LOL you got mugged by Clegg. I'm imagining you'll not make that mistake again.
 
Name one.

The bits of NPfIT which were paid for (PACS, N3, NHS mail) all worked. The stuff that has been more problematic (care records) is only being paid for as milestones get reached. Or not, of course.

The National Identity Scheme didn't fail: it was axed for political reasons. Actually, to appease liberty fetishists like you.

Of recent government IT projects that didn't do too well - rural payments, DWP payments platform, child maintenance, courts records management - none were multi-billion pound projects. All were enormously tricky pieces of applications development, of a kind that can often go tits up because they are unique (and of course, subject to bewildering levels of specification change along the way), but none came anywhere close to nine figures.

Seven in 10 government IT projects have failed, according to the chief information officer of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
 
I'm gona be in my tiger suit, just ressurected my past art skillz and made a "TIGERS AGAINST CUTS!" sign with the Ukuncut logo on there too. Just need to find a sturdy pole before sleep, or else i'll have to tear the splintery square wood off a swappie poster haha. My soft middle-class paws demand better comfort though, frankly...
 

That's a rather disingenuous quote, and a silly headline by ZD Net given what Harley actually said in 2007. His complaint was that only 30% of IT projects succeed in meeting their original objectives on cost, quality and timescales - in both the public and private sectors. That's pretty much what you'd expect: squaring these three is notoriously tricky and the project manager's usual advice is to "pick any two".

There's a clear difference between "failed projects" - ie, those which fail to produce anything of value - and projects which fail to meet all the original successs criteria. Anyway, you're out of step with your political masters. Pretending that there are quick, easy savings from government IT - if only it was done on open source, or open standards, or without systems integrators - was a pre-election trick. It's pretty much irrelevant now that the real work of cuts is underway, although it's useful for Francis Maude to continue the pretence in order to keep the frighteners on suppliers.
 
I'm gona be in my tiger suit, just ressurected my past art skillz and made a "TIGERS AGAINST CUTS!" sign with the Ukuncut logo on there too. Just need to find a sturdy pole before sleep, or else i'll have to tear the splintery square wood off a swappie poster haha. My soft middle-class paws demand better comfort though, frankly...

:D
 
There's never any need to bring your own pole when there's so many swp ones available
 
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