Another Spears moment

[jaysay]

See its happened again, more government information lost, Oops I did it again must be top of the pops in the home office. This time its details of over 30,000 criminals lost by a firm working for the home offices, no doubt they'll all be after suing the government. and this lot want to have identity cards with all our personal details on them, they should coco

[Loz]

Read about this and could not believe the incompetence of this man!
Now these criminals could not only sue but get protection from gangs etc... which is yet another thing we are going to have to pay for.
Like you said Jay they can take a running jump with the id cards, they just can't be trusted with any information.

[Wynonie Harris]

Jacqui Smith (AKA Blunderwoman)was told about this on Tuesday. Now I understand why she spent the next two days announcing new initiatives. First, she used the Gary Glitter pantomine to promise tough new legislation to remove sex offender's passports...which is now in doubt because of the human rights act (introduced by this government). Then, she said she was recruiting 6,000 extra special constables, despite the Home Office saying that they were dropping the recruitment of community support officers.

It's not the grubby opportunism and deceit that bothers me - I've come to expect that from this government. It's their sheer stupidity in believing that these non-announcements would somehow provide a smokescreen to cover the scandalous inefficiency of yet another loss of sensitive details. ID cards?...I wouldn't trust this lot to run a chip shop!

[andrewb]

I think this sums it up.

[jambutty]

As Home Secretary the buck stops with her, so she should get the chop but the real culprit is the private company that lost the details and if there is any suing to be done it should be that company and not the government.

This beggars the question what is a private company, presumably in business to make a profit, doing with these sort of details? When was this private company brought into the action? And why? When was it announced?

It seems to me that for years, what used to be government departments, have quietly been farmed out to the private sector. Why?

[cashman]

Originally Posted by jambutty

As Home Secretary the buck stops with her, so she should get the chop but the real culprit is the private company that lost the details and if there is any suing to be done it should be that company and not the government.[/size][/font]

It seems to me that for years, what used to be government departments, have quietly been farmed out to the private sector. Why?

agree thats were the buck stops, as fer why, many things have been farmed out, in different areas, all to the detriment of the public why? cos they can please themselves, anything fer n easy life, the british public will put up with it.

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by jambutty

It seems to me that for years, what used to be government departments, have quietly been farmed out to the private sector. Why?

It's an idea they picked up from the Tories. Unfortunately, the privatisation chickens are now coming home to roost in so many different ways from rip-off gas and electric prices to lost databases.

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by jambutty

It seems to me that for years, what used to be government departments, have quietly been farmed out to the private sector. Why?

So that governments can claim to be 'efficiently reducing the civil service' and reducing the government wage bill.

What was paid out in wages, now is paid out in governments contracts, to companies who have shareholders and low paid workers.

[jaysay]

Seems funny that there are now 800, 000 more civil servants now that there were in 1997, don't seem like cutting the wage bill myself.