So you want to scrap services and put them online in order to reduce the spending deficit, what a work of absolute genuis. You are going to make a large portion of the public sector redundant and expect us to trust an IT system that you are going to have put in place. That worked really well when it came to the NHS didnt it.
Let me make is simple for you Gordon, we don't want gimmicks that are going to end up costing us far more in taxes than the supposed savings you claim there will be because you end up giving the contracts to the 'most popular' company rather then the most competent one. We don't want personal web pages or any of the other vote grabbing bolloocks you are going to shovel out in the next few weeks because you think that the electorate are all stupid and will vote for the 'shiny shiny'. We want a givernment that we can trust, we want hospitals that can actually treat those in need and prescribe life saving drugs without having to tell terminally ill patients that they are screwed because you have forced them to spend most of their budgets on red tape. We want to see a police force that is well funded and doesnt have a serious morale problem due to the absolute abortion of the legal system you and your ilk have forced upon us. We want to see that our troops, when they have a legitimate war to fight and not the total cock up we have been saddled with by Bliar have the equipment that they need and don't have to pay for kit themselves because what they are issued with is not fiy for purpose. We want to see the members of the houses of commons and lords who stole money from the taxpayer and were never charged over it forced to hand all of that money back. And most of all we want your useless arrogant, temper tantrum throwing arse out of No. 10 before you can fuck this country up any further than it already has been.
Face-to-face public service centres like jobcentres and passport offices could be scrapped in favour of websites within four years, the Prime Minister has said. New plans to be unveiled next week aim to move all public services online within four years. The plans could make face-to-face transactions a thing of the past ? and could mean the end of hundreds of call centres and benefit offices. Tens of thousands of public sector jobs could be scrapped in Jobcentres, passport centres and town halls as a result of the plans, which the government says will save ?4 billion over four years.
The government wants everybody in the country to have a personalised website within a year.
The sites will initially be used to apply for a school places, book doctor?s appointments, claim benefits, get a new passport, pay council tax or register cars.
And within three years it will be possible to interact with teachers or ask your doctor for medical advice using the site, which the plans describe as ?a government version of facebook.?
Mr Brown will also argue that using text messages to remind people of GP appointments could reduce the ?600 million annual cost of missed NHS appointments.
The government said the plans would have ?huge economic benefits.? But union leaders and privacy experts have criticised the plans. They said elderly and disabled people would find it difficult to use the service and that the plans raised serious concerns over privacy, data protection and fraud.
Jonathan Baume, general secretary of the FDA, which represents senior civil servants, said a recent NHS IT project had wasted ?12 billion of taxpayers? money.
?There has been a long history of government computer problems,? he told The Times
A Shadow Cabinet member said last night that the Tories supported the plans to get government online.
But Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said: ?Over the last three to four years over 100,000 civil service jobs have gone with a serious impact in key areas such as tax and job centres where they have had to re-employ people in the recession due to the upsurge in unemployment.
?Cutting public services is not only bad for the public who use services but also the economy as we are pushing people who provide valuable services on the dole.?
