WRITTEN ON June 18th, 2007 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Identity, Pertinent Art, Transformational Government, What do we want?
A conversation on the exemplary Jeremy Gould’s site observes that
direct.gov.uk has a long way to go before being useful.
I couldn’t agree more. My search for my old boss, Jeremy Heywood, newly appointed from his sojourn at Morgan Stanley to the post of (the incoming) PM’s senior adviser on domestic policy and strategy, revealed a very helpful set of links from Google, and, well, you will need to look for yourselves at what Directgov found for me…
I do hope the DirectGov team will personally repeat to Jeremy this lecture about “Everyone can enjoy sport without having to compete, and there is a wide range of locally-based activities which people of any fitness level can do etc”
They should explain also why they think this patronising editoriaising is the only fact worth connecting with Mr Heywood’s name.
And how much it has cost us to date to build the sequence of services that can’t do any better than that.
Does the new Perm Sec have a good sense of humour, do you know?