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

[Ian Batten]

On 22 Jan 08, at 1232, ken wrote:
>
> And the cleverest and best-educated cabinet this country ever had  
> was  probably Harold Wilson's first.  Did they do that much better?

Did the death penalty, the criminalisation of abortion, the  
criminalisation of suicide and the criminalisation of homosexuality  
all get abolished on their watch?  Looks like a good record to me.

I'll take your facts on the actual degrees against my gut feel: I'm  
sure you're right.

But I just feel the standards of intellect of the current lot just  
aren't very good.  Why does Milliband believe that the instant MoD  
debacle is about how hard it is to prevent laptops being stolen from  
cars?  Why does Swiss Des tell us about how good MoD encryption is,  
when the data wasn't encrypted?   Why can't Peter Hain and Harriet  
Harman fill in a form?  Are these the marks of clever people?