"Ministers are accountable for the decisions and actions of their Departments"HMRC is the responsibility of HM Treasury. So in the Prime Minister's officially stated view Alistair Darling is accountable for the loss of 15 million child beneift records. Will the words be followed? Or will the bunker bunk down some more?
N.B. I have to go and catch a train now, so will not be about for the statement from Darling.
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A protest rally is due to take place in Oxford this evening - 20 November 2007 - against a debate on free speech scheduled to take place at its prestigious Union next Monday to which David Irving and Nick Griffin have been invited as speakers.
Whether next Monday’s debate goes ahead remains to be seen. Apparently, the matter is to be decided after a Union meeting on Friday when members will be asked to vote on the issue.
Vote: Should David Irving and Nick Griffin be allowed to participate in a debate on free speech at the Oxford Union?
YES or NO?
Vote on this at:
http://www.1party4all.co.uk
Darling kept dodging issue of security of ID data - the issue of biometric identification is irrelevent as the data lost was from the basic database at above this level of security. Why did the tory plonkers see this.
Tony Coles Grange-over-sands
Is it true that Brown will miss tomorrow's PMQ?We now know that he knew this crisis had happened last week.Bottled it again?
Surprise surprise: this same (Dutch Based) company of couriers lost a large, valuable pallet of machinery for us about 12 months ago. almost bankrupting our company, someone had(of course) forgotten to tick the right box: but he good news is... they may pay as much a 15 dollars a kilo compensation... er, how much did those discs weigh.
Well as Brown's official title is that of First Lord of the Treasury, he is technically the head of HMRC so perhaps he should do the honourable thing and resign.
Who is "Will Daring"
andromeda, I have just come back from a rally on free speech in Wellington (the 2nd of 3 planned in the main centres).
The NZ government (Labour) is set to pass a couple of laws that, together will:
- severely restrict the right of free speech for private individuals in an election year (we have a 3 year parliament, so 1 year in 3 we will have no free speech)
- allow sitting MPs to dip into their parliamentary funding for electioneering advertisements, without it being counted toward their election year spending limits (just communicating what we do in parliament, yessiree)
- Exempt departmental advertising from the definition of electioneering. (just explaining those whizzy new tax credits announced just in time for the election)
They are clutching at the levers of power as they ride a rough period in the polls leading into election year. There were anticipating the usual NZ apathy to this, but, after vigorous campaigning by bloggers and private individuals, the MSM has picked this up. The largest NZ daily had a front page editorial decrying the attack on democracy and freedom of speech.
News came through this morning that a net 26,500 NZers immigrated to Australia in the last year... just in time to see a Labo(u)r government elected there, too.
Dawn Primarolo was the minister responsible for the Inland Revenue for the last ten years and her boss was Gordon Brown. Darling has only been responsible for a couple of months. The rot set in before he arrived.
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