This census is a complete and utter waste of time.Why am I filling out a form asking me where I live when they obviously know already ‘cos they sent it to my home address in the first place?And why are they asking where I work when the taxman already knows that only too bleeding well, and whether I’m married, what passport I’ve got, whether I own my house, how many bedrooms has it got – why? – and so on.What possible extra information can they expect to learn when all my bleeding details are on about eight separate government databases?All they need do is press a couple of buttons and they’ve got the lot. Instead, as if computers had never been invented, they send out a 20-page form which you have to fill in with a quill pen, costing squillions, in order to tell them what they already know.The people the Government doesn’t know about, the ones it needs to find, won’t even bother to fill out the form anyway, so that makes it all meaningless.The Whitehall suits will tell councils in Slough and Westminster they must have made up the fact there are 10,000 people from Kosovo and Lithuania living in their patches in bedsits ‘cos there’s nothing in the census forms about them. Obviously not.They all happened to be ‘out’ on Sunday night when the census was supposed to take place.What a waste!
