Month: August 2008

Just whose side is Bones on?

That is the question I constantly find myself returning to when I consider the Bones Report. The quandary can best be summed up by the paper’s claim that “across the whole party we have expenditure of £15m, yet only just over 10% of that was campaign expenditure through the main Federal Party budget.” You could… Continue reading Just whose side is Bones on?

Jacqui Smith: It’s not my fault, it’s my contractors that are rubbish (whinge, whinge…)

Jacqui Smith’s startling insight into how the details of 84,000 prisoners managed to wind up on a memory stick which promptly went missing: “This was data that was being held in a secure form, but was downloaded onto a memory stick by an external contractor,” she said. “It runs against the rules set down both… Continue reading Jacqui Smith: It’s not my fault, it’s my contractors that are rubbish (whinge, whinge…)