You couldn’t be more wrong Justin. It’s perfect for a government paying lip service to greater public engagement, but who actually don’t want it in practice.

I was a subcontractor on several government websites. I could tell you stories of bureaucratic incompetence that would turn your hair white. And perhaps worse, the systems set up by private firms and contractors to exploit that incompetence and drain huge sums from the public purse.

That these sites work at all is damn near miraculous.