Count me in
The instincts of the strip-teasing liberal bird who took off her sweaters one by one until she was down to a body stocking in order to protest against the Census may have been sound, or they may not have been. Not knowing the girl, I am in no position to judge. But let's assume she was doing it all in the cause of privacy as opposed to public ex- posure. I am sure it is not the Census we need to fear when, rightly, we express alarm at the invasion of our privacy by data banks. The Census is civilised, and the knowledge it discovers and processes and transmits is not knowledge about named, specific individuals.
So far as the Census is concerned—but not at all so far as data banks go—count me in.
Of course the real objection to the census of the likes of Jeremy Thorpe, is that statistically it might end up proving that Enoch was right after all. And that would never do, now would it?
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