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120GB of yummy transparency

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longfingernailspaintedblue · 04/06/2010 11:25

The central government COINS spending database is to be released in full, for free, to the public!

Labour tried to hide their decisions to try to cover up their wasteful expansion of the State.

Now we the public will be able to search and destroy Labour's inefficiencies.

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Coderooo · 04/06/2010 11:25

what are oyu on about

IMoveTheStars · 04/06/2010 11:26
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longfingernailspaintedblue · 04/06/2010 11:29

I mean this

The data isn't in transparent formats yet, but at least it is out there. Finally the era of public spending secrecy is over.

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longfingernailspaintedblue · 04/06/2010 11:34

Remember, when George Osborne asked for the database before the election he was refused.

How can an opposition be expected to make sensible public spending decisions without knowing about existing public spending?

Labour didn't care at all for Britain whilst they were racking up the deficit trying to buy votes; they were merely trying to hang on to power any which way they could, including hiding the books. Now, those sort of underhand tactics will never happen again.

Shining a light into the dark corners of government will root out more waste than a thousand reviews and commissions.

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longfingernailspaintedblue · 04/06/2010 11:38

I am not a techno-whiz but if anyone wants the raw files they can get them at

data.gov.uk/dataset/coins

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claig · 04/06/2010 12:02

great, coming out of the shadows, exposed to the sunlight. Happy days are here again with the new government.

claig · 04/06/2010 12:34

the retrograde rules and regulations of the regressives (whose latest rogueish ruse is to refer to themselves as progressives) are being reversed by a real government of the people.

claig · 04/06/2010 12:35

whose recent rogueish ruse

longfingernailspaintedblue · 04/06/2010 12:37

The next step should be to move public sector vacancy announcements from the Guardian and onto a dedicated jobs.gov.uk website.

I hate seeing my taxes funding pseudo-communists like Andrew Marr at the BBC, but at least they pretend that they are not biased. The Grauniad is a circus of outright leftwing ideology.

If a jobs.gov.uk website cannot be set up quickly, then in the meantime the vacancies could perhaps be advertised in the Spectator instead.

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claig · 04/06/2010 12:41

this is getting better all the time. We are being spoilt by the new government.

Rather an Old Etonian than an Old Utopian, those discredited dastardly terrible Trotskyists.

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