Census 2021

[dowdstree]

What a brave man. Were ye no feart o gettin a Glesga Kiss?

The guy must have heard you through the letterbox telling his neighbour about the five grand fine and decided not to risk it.

Wonder if he ever took his turn of washing the sterrs ? Maybe that should have been a question on the Census.

Cheers,

Dorrie

[Skoosh]

Ah could take ye tae the very close. Up another close a youngster tried tae fix me up wi a date wi his Maw, she set aboot him wi a brush! 

Skoosh.

[suey]

Using their eyes was a bit tongue in cheek,  as there are councils who don't want to see what is really needed and press on with their own agenda.

Completely off topic....but concerning faith in your local council.
There is a small piece of land near to us, if you include the allotments it’s a very nice chunk of prime building land, accessible only on foot. One problem, the only vehicle access is through a housing estate using a narrow section of road.  It’s often pandemonium, people constantly having their cars damaged and losing wing mirrors. We’ve tried for years to get either a one way system or have the road closed at it’s further end to stop the ‘rat run’.  Proposals put forward for ‘luxury’ housing, the land backs straight on to the National Park.....guess when they did the traffic monitoring?  Right in the middle of the first lockdown when hardly a car moved up or down". 

[Maiden Stone]

Nothing very strange about this business except it is the subject of an article in todays National by former MP George Kerevan.

Skoosh.

Hardly a neutral source of information or opinion.

[Rena]

The Scottish Census has been delayed till we are out of the Corona Woods, hopefully next year.
 What is more concerning though is the company which has been contracted with handling the census information? Step forward CACI UK, who make their money selling information. Connections to the US security services this former software company is being sued by guys held at Abu Ghraib prison and "processed rigorously!" by CACI personnel.
 All very strange you might say, what possible interest, apart from the cash, has this private spy agency in our national census and how confidential is the information you put on your census form?

Skoosh.

I don't know what the magnetism is towards using American companies.  If I remember aright, the Blair/Brown government tasked an American company to work on the UK annual NIC Returns.  The company then had to admit they'd "lost" the disks.

[a chesters]

Interesting point Dale.  I presume that local councils will use their eyes and see how people travel in the next few years.

It will either go back to the levels it was pre pandemic or will reduce as self-employed people make, and companies offer, the choice to work from home.

There will obviously be those who will need to travel to their workplace as it would not be possible for them to work from home, e.g. police and health service.  There may well be others but I can't think of them at the moment 

If I were to be still working, I would have had to go to my normal place of employment, There was no way I could work from home.

I used to work in the telephone exchange, physically connecting customer numbers to customers copper cables, not possible from home

[Skoosh]

Not unlike yourself Maiden Stone!

Skoosh.

[Gillg]

Completed our paper census form on Sunday (21st) and posted it Monday morning at the village post office and got proof of posting (well, you never know).  This afternoon (Tuesday) a young man in a hi-vis jacket emblazoned with the words "Census 2021" knocked on our door, saying that according to records we hadn't yet submitted our census form.  We were, of course, able to reassure him that it had been posted and he said he had found that a lot of people had chosen to complete the paper forms. 

Beware all census dodgers.  Big Brother is watching you!

[Kiltpin]

I requested a paper census 10 days before the day. Nothing had arrived by the Sunday so did it all on-line.   

If the paper census does ever turn up, I will let you all know. 

Regards 

Chas