Security Through Obscurity is now Government Policy

[Roland Perry]

In article <47C28698.30598.548F4B0@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen 
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes
>> The census is supposed to make sure no-one is left behind.
>
>That is the claim. I don't believe it though.

What is meant by "left behind"?

It seems that local government spending (which in the UK is 2/3 funded 
by central grants) depends on how many people there are living in an 
authority's area. When it comes to working out the central grant it is 
claimed that the government mainly looks at census data. Hence rapidly 
growing areas (Slough has been mention in this context) get "left 
behind" because its population has been seriously under-estimated.
-- 
Roland Perry