[andyn]

To be fair, Drupal et al. are great for throwing at non-technical users and letting them create their own content.

[arocks]

Absolutely agree. But for an entity like the UK govt having plentiful resources, it would be sheer laziness to go with a solution like Drupal due to ease in initial setup. Besides, most Drupal sites look sort of kludgy in appearance.

[Pwnguinz]

You do realize the "appearance" of a site has nothing to do with the underlying stack, right? A Django site can appear like a Rails site can appear like a Drupal site can appear like a ...

You can argue for differences in behaviour, sure; but appearance?

[debacle]

I disagree. Drupal makes it hard to do easy things, creates a lot of unnecessary HTML, and makes it very hard to do things not The Drupal Way.