Bounty Snoopers

The Government has been throwing taxpayers' money at a promotions agency called Bounty, whose salesbeings are distributing child benefit forms to new parents and taking their personal details to sell at a profit. Doubtless the assumption was that nobody would care very much what became of personal data from persons who are, after all, benefits claimants; but even a few dozen MPs have caught on to the fact that child benefit claimants are usually breeders, and thus more likely to gain public sympathy. Lest we forget, Daveybloke himself exploited this fact during his now censored years as leader of the opposition, when he waved his dead child around in order to lend credence to his simpering over the National Health Service and all those nurses he wanted to fire. Anyway, a spokesbeing from Bounty claimed that allowing the company to pester parents cost only 8p per form, whereas postage would cost more than 33p per form; doubtless the privatisation of Royal Mail, and the resulting exponential increase in cost-effective service improvement, will rectify this matter post-haste.