Credit cards and store cards: an official translation

Simply Understand started nearly a year ago with the not-so-simple idea of making a small corner of the UK’s demo­cracy more, well, democratic!

Everyone know how much of a struggle it can be to get your story heard by govern­ment institutions. Consultations are supposed to be one way for us to get through, but so often they’re so complic­ated and over­whelming. Sure, some­times they deal with complic­ated subjects, but no matter how complic­ated they are, don’t we all have a right to under­stand and contribute to them?

With that in mind, today Simply Understand’s been given it’s first chance at a 100% genuine, offi­cial consulta­tion makeover! The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are consulting on Credit cards and store cards. Their 100 page original consulta­tion has been reduced to just 10. You can:

• Download the PDF
• Listen to the podcast (voiced by debonair blogger and writer Matt from Ebonics and Irony)
• Or visit the credit consulta­tion website, and leave a comment or vote.

The first step?

Is this the first step on the road to making all govern­ment consulta­tions easier to under­stand? It could be, but only if it actu­ally works. And that means more people replying, more people down­loading and more people listening and understanding. And if you read it through, and there are bits you don’t under­stand — well, I think that’s helpful too, and you should tell them that. Because if you can’t under­stand it now, how’s it going to help anyone?

Pass it on!

Email, Messenger, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, heck even Myspace it, or just print it out and give it to people (double sided to save paper). The more people see this, the more chance we’ve got to encourage more easy to under­stand consultations!