The new Home Secretary John Reid has vented fury at Home Office over the prisoners fiasco.
John Reid yesterday made a startling attack on the Home Office as he revealed that the department still did not know the whereabouts of hundreds of foreign prisoners who should have been considered for deportation.
The home secretary said the department was “not fit for the purpose: averse to a culture of personal responsibility, technologically ill-equipped for an era of mass migration and led by officials that are incapable of producing facts or figures that remain accurate for even a short period of time”.
Not fit for purpose and technologically ill-equipped!
And this is the department to be put in charge of one of the most technically complex IT projects in the history of the UK, the Identity Cards system.
It was bad enough when we believed that the Home Office was at least competent but now when even the Home Secretary is attacking his own department there is little hope that the ID Cards will not end up a complete and utter fucking shambles that will cause more harm than good to the citizens of the UK.
