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The birds and the Sullen Ladies work their refreshing effect

A wet Palm Sunday weekend among the spring flowers and birdsong has quite washed away the irritations of last week. Perhaps I was intemperate, dear readers, in my final Blog Cast of the previous week. Perhaps it was the celebratory glass of sherry (we also had some terrific DirectGov stats in: we scored 8071!).

My conscience was pricked by a note from Walter (copied, I fear, to Gus and Jeremy)

Calm down, Bonar. Let’s not have undignified language from a fellow Wednesday Morning group member. There’s no need to panic.

We can take out this Web 2.0 threat with the precision of a Jamie Noon tackle or, indeed, of one of those devices made by our corporate event sponsors Lockheed Martin. Let the propellerheads and Public House geeks waste their weekends changing the fount on our word processors or remixing the data on our government web sites.

The rest of the world is absolutely uninterested. People want government to tell the what to do and think - vide Ben’s latest poll: 93% say things would be better if the government was more in control. The 2007 Big Conversation told us to spend serious amounts of money just sorting our traditional IT out.

Nobody asks for these Web 2.0 developments. If they want any Web at all it’s strictly Web 1.0 for now, thank you. And that is precisely what our transformative strategy will do, with pin-point precision. All we need do is identify who everyone is and what they’re like, then we can channel things at them. Our messages will be clearer than ever before.

Now we’ve completed Modernising Government (see Cabinet Office press release PR08-731) we can relax a little. After all, the pressure for eye-catching initiatives has gone now, hasn’t it?

Among the wet daffodils, the helibores, and early flush of my beloved Sullen Ladies I can see Wally is right. This problem will go away, all its googlings and twitterings with it. I can’t think how I let that little fellow irritate me so much. Whippersnapper.

Published by Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO on 16/03/08 at 9:29pm

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