Not another one, Darling
James Forsyth 2:31pm
As Alistair Darling scurries off to the House to make a statement on the latest crisis to rock the Treasury, Martin Vander Weyer has some thoughts on the latest developments in the Northern Rock saga. As Martin argues, from a position where no was really blaming the government they have managed to land themselves right in the middle of the blame game.
Back before Brown took over, it used to be the joke in Whitehall that the worst job in government would be being Gordon Brown's Chancellor. How true that has turned out to be.
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Tiberius
November 20th, 2007 3:06pmCrikey! - a public servant resignation!
albert hammond bootleg
November 20th, 2007 3:58pmI see Mr Brown's gone off to hide in Uganda for a few days, somethings never change..
Max Kaye
November 20th, 2007 4:31pmAnother Nu-Labour government department 'not fit for purpose'. Why am I not surprised?
And these guys want us to trust them with ID cards...
Tiberius
November 20th, 2007 5:01pm... and 90 day detention, Max, along with West Midlands police!
Max Kaye
November 20th, 2007 7:02pmI have to be careful.... I live in the West Midlands.
Ronald Whitehand
November 20th, 2007 7:36pmAs someone who has spent a life time in IT, most recently delivering the new NHS systems (something I am not proud of) I can tell you from my experience that this will happen more until appropriate technology is in place to stop geeks and twerps doing daft things like posting a data base through the internal mail. Whatever any experts can tell you as far as I am concerned there is no technology in place which will stop these human failings. Therefore policing, and management scrutiny is an imperative. And by the way, I'll bet anyone £50 that before twelve have elapsed there will be a scandal about personal health data being read by those who shouldn't. Wasn't a football managers passed around recently?
Lee Jakeman
November 20th, 2007 11:06pmIn all of the recent agonising over "can the Tories win the next general election", the one variable in the equation that has been overlooked is Labour's capacity for self-destruction.