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The British National Party was on high alert when a computer system used by South Cambridgeshire council recorded that there were thousands of South American people living within its boundaries.
A
glitch on a computer being used to record the electoral roll had a problem
assigning people with a nationality. The computer recorded any citizen where
the nationality was not known as Guyanese.
The
BNP will no doubt have been reassured by that most British explanation of
government IT failure.
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Comments (1)
Course it's rubbish, everybody knows I'm the only Guyanese in the village!
bill
Posted by bill lutchman | September 27, 2008 3:57 PM
Posted on September 27, 2008 15:57