DirectGovKids

No, no link to it, as I would want to boost their figures any:

But David Willetts, the shadow education secretary, whose parliamentary
question uncovered the cost, said the current rate of return of 8,218
hits in three weeks was poor.

"They have spent £2 million and two years to create this website, which
is an incredibly expensive and cumbersome way of doing it, but it
doesn’t seem to be getting many hits.

Not many hits is one way pf putting it. 8,000 hits is the same as this one man blog received on Monday and Tuesday (jointly) of last week. Or Wednesday and Thursday, actually.

On that basis, d’ye think I should appply for a grant to boost the site, get more people involved in politics?

There’s also a very simple answer to one of the questions they pose:

or vital lessons such as "How to win votes",

Lying is a time honoured practice.

2 responses

  1. sortapundit Avatar
    sortapundit

    When they click to enter the virtual world, they discover a hidden – some critics suggest fairytale – kingdom.
    The ssme thing happens to me when I visit the grown up DirectGov site. £180 for 12 months’ car tax; class 4 national insurance for the self employed mug at 8% of profit; details on fuel duty, income tax rates, forced recycling and an explanation about why the poilceman who dragged me off the road last week simply because I was driving a BMW had evey right to do so.
    Fairytale kingdom, indeed. That’s the one with the wicked witches, murderous giants and big bad wolves living in it, right?

  2. Bob Doney Avatar
    Bob Doney

    Ooh, Mummy, the guvmint’s webby page tells me I should drink between one and two litres a day of water. What, on top of all the fruit and veg I have to eat, and the pint of milk on my cornflakes?

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