Government Wasting Your Money on Computer Game “Second Life”
Labour’s latest wheeze to waste your cash is a “hub” on the internet computer game “Second Life”. This piece of spectacular wastage of your money cost £20,000 to set up and a further £12,000 a year to run. The Department of Work [sic] and Pensions is behind this particular wastage.
The clowns at the DWP forgot to promote this online however (probably too embarrassed). They created a 3D “innovation centre” but it is not advertised on the DWP website. Junior minister Jonathan Shaw fessed up to Parliament it cost £20k to build and a further £12k a year to maintain. Whats the betting all that cash went to some web designer that is an MP’s cohort? Maybe it was farmed out to some politically correct group teaching knife wielding Albanians web design as they are pored over by a dozen or so Social Workers.
Second Life uses a currency called Linden Dollars rather than real currency. Perhaps Gordon wants to buy up a few virtual banks while he is there? Who knows. Maybe Labour want to be at the front of the queue for wasting fantasy money in addition to real money.
Conservative MP Nick Hurd, who has raised questions in the Commons regarding the amount of taxpayer’s money spent on Second Life, said the move was insensitive amid rising unemployment.
He added: “At a time when a million people face losing their jobs this year, it’s proof that the Government is literally living in its own fantasy world.”
A spokesperson from the department said the innovation was a virtual area for government and private companies to showcase technological innovations. (Thats political jabber for even more ways to waste tax payers money and syphon cash off to cronies.)
“We believe it could help make sharing technology more efficient and save taxpayers money as meetings, events and shows can be held online at a fraction of the cost and resources,” they said. (We think they should try Skype – its free!)
They hope money from the private sector will help cover some of the cost. The project will be reviewed in 2011 it is claimed. By then of course, it is hoped that the good people of the UK will have booted Gordon Brown’s sorry arse to the kerb forever.
This site is waiting to see Gordon Brown’s Second Life Avatar!
