tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post2377445237185097865..comments2023-11-14T08:19:54.657+00:00Comments on DMossEsq: Universal Credit, ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken and Sir Jeremy HeywoodDavid Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post-84343611394993989032012-09-19T01:28:18.032+01:002012-09-19T01:28:18.032+01:00On reflection, I think you’re right, Mr Herbert. R...On reflection, I think you’re right, Mr Herbert. Right that “this does not add up”. I think it <i>would</i> have added up if I had stopped writing at the skull-and-crossbones.<br />David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048449668150968412.post-28670135259035006272012-09-18T20:59:46.792+01:002012-09-18T20:59:46.792+01:00This does not add up. You have a convincing case, ...This does not add up. You have a convincing case, consistently argued, on the design and implementation of this technically flawed scheme. Yet the conception and the IT operation of it are inseparable. If IDS is ploughing ahead with his scheme in the face of evidence that the technology won't work then he should be told to hold back until it does.<br /><br />And here's where you go wrong. Part of Heywood's job as Cabinet Secretary must be to challenge the eternally over-optimistic view of Ministers and their advisers that their IT and non- IT projects will be alright on the night. Yet you swallow the Spectator's obviously and insultingly DWP spun line that an ideologically unsound and absurdly powerful mandarin is frustrating this one's progress for some sinister political reason. It's hard ro reconcile that with all your previous posts in which you fault Whitehall for failing to do what the Cabinet Secretary appears now to be doing!<br /><br />That's not only illogical. It ignores your own logic.Aubrey Herbertnoreply@blogger.com