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

[Peter Tomlinson]

Ian Batten wrote:
> And that, to quote George Smiley, is my _thesis_: that we get these 
> problems because clever civil servants can get around the Labour 
> ministers.  And they couldn't the tory ones.
>
> ian
>
So why are the civil servants not working out how to do the job 
properly? The task being to move on from the situation where the 
discretion of public servants to adapt implementation processes to suit 
local and even individual situations has largely gone as centrally 
designed ICT systems multiply along with their centralised databases.

Peter