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Is there a bigger picture Darling? Submitted by Elijah Lineberry on Tue, 2007-11-20 20:11.
The British tax department has lost records on 25 million (!) people. It seems some idiot Civil Servant posted a couple of compact discs and they got lost in the mail, putting all these millions of people at risk of private information falling into the wrong hands. The pathetic Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, informed Parliament of the incident today with an understatement of "I regard this as a very serious failure". The big picture in all this is entirely lost on the Chancellor, namely, why does the Tax department have records on so many people? Why is it necessary to keeps tabs on law abiding people in this way? Why not simply abolish all files the British Government has on its citizens apart from Birth and Death Certificates? (and even they are arguably unnecessary) (Such a suggestion would be greeted with incomprehension from the control freak Socialists) As President Reagan once said "Government IS the problem" ....and this shows that once again it has failed dismally.
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Is there a bigger picture darling
The government is the problem, and the Constitutions of both Canada and the United States (hopefully) protects us from the government.
Gosh!
Alice Thomson is quoting what I was saying, in the Telegraph!
...But the outrage is missing the main point. Why do 25 million of us need to be on these CDs in the first place? ...
(You heard it here first, folks!)
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Officials are saying they had concerns about simply posting such sensitive material.
This does not change the fact such information should not have been held by the Government in the first place!
Events
have moved on a bit with this scandal.
The Civil Servant who caused the whole problem has gone into hiding with a 24 hour minder.
This seems rather strange, as it pre-supposes his minder/s are not part of the 25 million!
quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Oh!
that is excellent progress, Sandi!
Well done those Physicians, it is about time someone told Comrade Brown to get knotted.
(I could not locate that amusing auction on Trademe.co.nz)
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Nearly two-thirds of family doctors are poised to boycott the government's scheme to put the medical records of 50 million NHS patients on a national electronic database.