Security, what security?

First it was in the Home Office, where illegal immigrants were found to be working. I wonder what has happened there since?

Now it's at Heathrow, where immigrants are employed who could well be criminals, as there there is no way to check on any past criminal record. When we are subjecting our own citizens to expensive CRB, - Criminal Record Bureau, checks, to see if they are dangerous as Sunday School teachers, ice cream sellers, or whatever, we employ immigrants without checks. This is not to debar immigrants, merely to emphasise yet again the woeful lack of security, despite all the political correctness, ID card proposals, intrusion into private lives, etc., done to gain a few Brownie points for the Government.

The Government has been unfortunate, perhaps. Well, the Department for Work and Pensions has recently added another to a long line of Government security breaches.
This time, when they sent data through the post, they did indeed send it encrypted, so they are learning, BUT THEY SENT THE PASSWORD DETAILS IN THE SAME ENVELOPE!

The explanation for this appalling record may well be that civil servants are reeling under the torrent of desperate changes and reforms which affect them, and the target culture.

If so, the blame has to be attached to Government. Sorry, Bottler, the fiasco may be due to Blair, but you are (nominally) in charge.