Comments on: Baby ICA – ContactPoint’s first case http://idealgovernment.com/2009/03/baby_ica_contactpoints_first_case/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Proverbially Anonymous Coward http://idealgovernment.com/2009/03/baby_ica_contactpoints_first_case/comment-page-1/#comment-2763 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:35:56 +0000 http://baby_ica_contactpoints_first_case#comment-2763 Let us not miss the rather glaring point of accountability. At the moment, even though we always get the usual flannel, those responsible for various aspects of the scheme can at least be questioned at the Despatch Box.

Mandelson is not under any such scrutiny and any moves to have the scheme, or aspects of it, shifted into his unaccountable domain should be viewed with extreme suspicion.

]]> By: David Moss http://idealgovernment.com/2009/03/baby_ica_contactpoints_first_case/comment-page-1/#comment-2762 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:06:26 +0000 http://baby_ica_contactpoints_first_case#comment-2762 A copy of the following email was sent to me, presumably by mistake:

From: Sir Gus O’Donnell
To: SecStateDTI
Date: 24 March 2009
Subject: Plumbers

Pete

“… other major Government contracts”, indeed! Love it!

Got to see Spliff* tomorrow morning. Not looking forward to the old all-good-things-come-to-an-end talk, but I suppose I’d better get used to it, there’s going to be a lot of it about over the next few months and decades.

And by the way, Pete, all good things do come to an end, they really do. That’s what the EC Johnnies told me. Get ID cards wrong again, and they’re going to give the job to the Poles.

So unless you want an unrelieved diet of soused herrings …

Best
GOD

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* Believed to be a reference to the Home Secretary

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