It doesn't surprise me that people are starting to realise this project was a disaster. My own personal experience is that a lot of useful information that used

It doesn't surprise me that people are starting to realise this project was a disaster. My own personal experience is that a lot of useful information that used to exist on various government websites is just gone. You can look through really old HN threads about startups/self employment/contracts/eulas in the uk and often people have posted links to useful information on various government websites, and virtually all of those links are dead now. Add to that the fact that you can't visit any uk government site now without being hit by google analytics tracking (no I do not want google tracking on my tax returns form!). For the people who actually read the reports and statements departments put out (e.g. charities, affected businesses, campaigners, pressure groups) it seems to be almost universally hated. Lots of complaints about older reports and press releases being just about impossible to find and a huge reduction in transparency. For example: http://markavery.info/2014/10/21/awful-gov/ http://markavery.info/2014/10/21/awful-gov/ >I want to make a serious point here. This one single government website is less informative and less easy to use than its multiple predecessors. If you were the least bit suspicious of this government then you might think it had been done on purpose to obscure government actions and policies from the taxpayers who pay for it and the voters who might well choose another bunch of politicians in future. >This government has done away with watchdogs and independent commissions who had the time and wit to question what government was doing on the environment and now it has obscured its own actions on its own website. Also of note, supposedly "arms length" non-departmental government bodies like Natural England have also been subsumed by gov.uk, without anybody seeming to notice.