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Bureaucracy gone made

_MrDick
_MrDick Posts: 13,135
edited September 2007 in Not Sports Related
I work in Local Government and we’ve just had some guidelines from Central Government on data that they want us to collect in respect of Ethnicity. The are six pages covering 94 different categories but the one that stands out for me is the section on the White Subjects. They want us to collect data on, amongst others...

White – British
White – English
White – Welsh
White – Scottish
White – Irish
WHITE – CORNISH

What’s that all about. Why do they need to know how many Cornish subjects are living in our little part of South East London?

<Shakes Head in depair>
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  • Sco
    Sco Posts: 2,623
    They are forming their own government down there and plan on leaving England even if it means war. Last I heard they were developing newquayler arms in preparation.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,682
    Probably a silly question but aren't they all white British?

    I wonder how much that exercise will cost the council tax payer?
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,682
    edited September 2007
    [cite]Posted By: Sco[/cite]They are forming their own government down there and plan on leaving England even if it means war. Last I heard they were developing newquayler arms in preparation.

    Don't be so falmouthed!
  • Sco
    Sco Posts: 2,623
    Now you are just being Scilly, Len.
  • JWADDICK
    JWADDICK Posts: 846
    It's the first stage of this Land's end
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,682
    edited September 2007
    The people that come up with these ideas are Looepy!
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,135
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Probably a silly question but aren't they all white British?

    I wonder how much that exercise will cost the council tax payer?

    I feel sorry for the people who have to fill in the questionairres
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,627
    [cite]Posted By: Valley_McMoist[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Probably a silly question but aren't they all white British?

    I wonder how much that exercise will cost the council tax payer?

    I feel sorry for the people who have to fill in the questionairres

    So truro, so truro!
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,682
    edited September 2007
    If I got one of those questionnaires I'd Hayle the nearest taxi and get as far away as possible!
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    they just want figures on the pasty faced people

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  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    it's not just more admin ........ its Moor Bodmin
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,682
    edited September 2007
    [cite]Posted By: Salad[/cite]they just want figures on the pasty faced people

    Do you mean the gingster haired ones?
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    I think I've just LostWithiel to live.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,682
    well you should st ive to do better!
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    sometimes you need the patience of a St...Ives een it all now
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    [cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Probably a silly question but aren't they all white British?

    I wonder how much that exercise will cost the council tax payer?
    It is a left wing conspiracy Len, I blame Red Ruth.
  • revellinit
    revellinit Posts: 827
    red ruth will see!
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    as well as "Cornish White", there is a "Newquay Brown" category too.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    [cite]Posted By: Sco[/cite]They are forming their own government down there and plan on leaving England even if it means war. Last I heard they were developing newquayler arms in preparation.
    LOL - I missed that first time round!
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    [cite]Posted By: revellinit[/cite]red ruth will see! Where's Trel when you need him?
    Trel is sick.

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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,450
    [cite]Posted By: Valley_McMoist[/cite]I work in Local Government and we’ve just had some guidelines from Central Government on data that they want us to collect in respect of Ethnicity. The are six pages covering 94 different categories but the one that stands out for me is the section on the White Subjects. They want us to collect data on, amongst others...

    White – British
    White – English
    White – Welsh
    White – Scottish
    White – Irish
    WHITE – CORNISH

    What’s that all about. Why do they need to know how many Cornish subjects are living in our little part of South East London?

    <Shakes Head in depair>
    I think what is even more baffling is the fact that there's a section for White - British. How in the name of all that is holy in this world can there be a 'White - British' person who isn't also either English, Welsh or Scottish. The Cornish one is surely someone's idea of a sick joke. Every time I get one of those questionnaires throguh I put 'mixed race' anyway.

    Oh, btw, the puns on this post are Trelawny awful - Tintagelly crap.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    perhaps it's for those born on Hadrian's Wall or Offa's Dyke.
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Crazy waste of money and time
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,628
    on my daughters school application it also has english/irish travellers
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    ha ha
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,829
    I'm mixed race, so I always put something down that isn't on the usual list
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,087
    i put down jedi a lot of the time.

    i know its old but still makes me chuckle when i scribble it down.
  • Sco
    Sco Posts: 2,623
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]i put down jedi a lot of the time.

    That would probably help you get into the police "force".
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    edited September 2007
    appropriate if you ARE going to Wookey hole
  • C_f_W
    C_f_W Posts: 1,433
    [cite]Posted By: Gump[/cite]Can I be English and British?.

    Sorry, not allowed

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