Ministry of Defence | Defence News | MOD confirms loss of recruitment data

[Peter Tomlinson]

M J D Brown wrote:

         Ian Batten wrote:
>> I presume the MoD has some systems for keeping, you know, `Top Secret' 
>> information, like the location of the deterrent and stuff like that, 
>> in some form
>> other than plaintext in the boot of a car?  Or are the  military now 
>> also joining
>> the `piss up in a brewery' school of  competence?
>>     
>
> I sometimes wonder whether it is part of the shoot-first-and think-later 
> gung-ho attitude that seems to pervade so much of public administration 
> these days.
>
>   
Very succinct. And apt when the MoD is around! Are we sure that things 
were better in the past? Or was it that, because decisions filtered down 
through layers of public servants, they mellowed before they reached the 
public and businesses? 40 years ago MAFF (or was it still Ministry of 
Food?) allowed my father a great deal of discretion as he dealt with 
wholesale food market traders over newly introduced grading and 
labelling regulations, and more senior officers were very reluctant to 
prosecute even the really serious offenders. Matters were handled 
locally then, because there was no other way to do it.

Peter