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

[Peter Tomlinson]

Ian Batten wrote:
> 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?
And Jacqui Smith should be introduced to Ralph McTell in order to be 
shown the streets of London...

Peter