A victim of his own administration

William Heath is concerned at his inefficiency in filling out official forms and where it will lead him in the UK government's brave new world.

"I realise that the fact that I loathe form-filling and administrative intrusion generally is not the government's fault, but my own failing, because I'm so damn forgetful and frankly inefficient. It does mean that any malevolent authority would have no trouble at all fining me, locking me up or generally forcing me into line on the basis I'm not conformant to the behaviour they require. Thus they win."