Another Whitehall Farce

[rhythmaning]

There has been an awful lot written about the latest tragi-comedy to befall Gordon and Alistair. Coming so soon after the Northern Rock debacle, too!

Thing is, every time I hear about the loss of confidential data 25 million people - and that is a mighty large number - it just makes me laugh. Perhaps it is just the scale of the thing - as topicaltim has pointed out, before this wonderful digital age it wouldn't have been possible to lose that much data without losing a good few buildings full of filing cabinets; now it all fits onto one shiny little disc.

Perhaps it is because I have no children, so I am not one of the people worried about details of my bank account being auctioned on eBay-for-fraudsters.

Perhaps it is the sound of so many politicians apologising without sounding sorry at all; or the sound of votes being lost.

Perhaps it is the stupidity of the whole situation.

But it still makes me smile.

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[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

'the Guardian's Simon Hoggart (who) wrote this morning that David Cameron was not so much shooting fish in a barrel as "harpooning" a porpoise in a bath.'

Well. I'm paid Child Benefit. That's just ridiculously stupid. I think people have become so over-zealous over some aspects of data protection they completely neglect the bloody obvious.