The present Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, continues to defend herself in insisting that she was not covering up the latest blunder at the Home Office - licensing illegal immigrants to be used in security positions. She was, she claims, merely delaying ( for 5 months), the publication while she gathered in the illegal immigrants. How long does she need to gather them in, and when had she intended to reveal the information - perhaps over Christmas, a good time to bury bad news?
John Reid before her insisted, after a series of blunders in a not-fit-for-purpose Home Office, that he should be allowed to continue in Office as he alone could clear up the mess.
Both of them used the age-old get-out, "I appeal to time". It should be admitted that in both cases the blunders were the result of their predecessors' actions or inactions, but it still remains true that if these people had been competent they would have sized up the situation and done something quickly, instead of merely covering up.
We may have had at least two not-fit-for-purpose Home Secretaries, but they were both very creative in finding excuses why their failures should not cause their resignation. Perhaps their problems were that they are in the wrong profession and with the wrong bosses!
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As some body might have said, "If you believe these people, you'll believe anything.
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