Just a quick one

I did an update on my maths for the IB->ESA changeover, as I neglected to note a number of details (primarly the distinction between 24-hour days and the average 5-day, 40-hour working week, and the number of Jobcentre Plus employees obviously being signficantly less than the entire staff quotient of the DWP). Based on this revised calculation, between 1st January 2010 and 31st December 2012 (in order to be finished by the 2013 deadline) one IB transfer needs to be processed every 12 seconds. Each individual Jobcentre Plus employee must process 23 claims per day, or one every 20 minutes. Considering in my experience of the recent past it took them seven weeks to process one claim, of which it took three weeks just to open the letter I sent, I stand by my previous conclusion that the whole thing is a load of nonsense drawn up by people clearly taking far more powerful drugs than me.

In other news: If the government want people to stop making Stalinist and/or 1984 references in relation to their policies, they really shouldn't be naming these policies Five Year Strategies.

...They're really not even trying anymore, are they?