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Re: [LUG] OT: Lax Bureaucracy [Was Re: TV Licensing]

 

On Monday 12 November 2007 19:29, Brad Rogers wrote:
...
> With legislation as it currently stands, the only way to get
> information from a registration is to buy a certified copy of that
> registration.  At £7.00 they aren't cheap, either.  It would require a
> complete overhaul of the registration system to do what you suggest.
> Not that it's a bad idea, but given the fact that the government have
> completely ballsed up the last overhaul, and had to go back to doing it
> all manually, until they can sort it out, it's not a good omen.
Its all a bit like the ID card farce:
If the information is easily correlated or collected then forgery is so much 
easier if it falls into the wrong hands.
Its a specious if not self defeating aim.
Tom te tom te tom


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