Darling is to make an announcement at 3.30 - bit of a problem?

[Xenophon]

Unbelievable.

Quite.

Incompetent is an understatement. What kind of an outfit is HMRC? Clearly they are a bunch of hapless, shambling buffoons.

[BrowneIssue]

Brown is a spawny fceker. He gets out just as the brown stuff hits the fan in his old job - in the same way that Blair did to Brown. Darling must be loving this. 2 days in the house getting a kicking.

My guess is that the £900 every taxpayer has leant NR is not enough and he is going to start 'bank in need' where all us lucky tax payers get to donate some more into the fund.

Or it could be that the tax credits PC has broken down and that they are waiting from a guy to fly in from Texas who has the backup on a floppy to get his flabby @rse over here to reboot it. Until then no tax credits will be paid. This obviously has serious inplications for Greggs the bakers and it is understood that there could well be a serious pastie crunch heading our way.

Oh, God how I want to hear that on the news!

[BrowneIssue]

Whatever it is, it can all be sorted out with a large increase in taxation.

A quote I frequently heard used at the MoD:

"It's only taxpayers' money - and there plenty more of where that came from."

[BrowneIssue]

To Hell in a handcart

Heads on spikes better still

Apparently this contradicts Human Rights Act.

It's all just political correctness gone mad.

[BrowneIssue]

Ah, disks containing 7 mln child benefits claimants details gone missing - names, addresses, bank details of 7 mln people....

ID card database.

Security.

Government.

EDS.

Elbow = Arse.

[TimberWolf]

Doesn’t make sense. If Revenue and Customs claims it doesn't believe the records have fallen into the wrong hands, what other ways are there of interpreting ‘losing' 15 million records? EDS system with no backup?

[DaveB]

Quite.

Incompetent is an understatement. What kind of an outfit is HMRC? Clearly they are a bunch of hapless, shambling buffoons.

It's not the first time something like has happened. There are a couple of older stories linked to the current one on the BBC site. Apparently HMRC are in the habit of sending CD's of peoples personal information to insurance co.'s via courier and they don't always get there.

I find it hard to belive that they can't come up with a more secure solution than chucking it in an envelope and posting it.

[BrowneIssue]

I'd like to make it quite clear, for those in any doubt, Britain is thriving, there is no "credit crunch", EDS do not make bad software and we are winning the War on Terror.

Fank u Mr Bwown. I was wery wowwied. Now I am happy. I luv u Mr Bwown.





C U Next Tuesday.

[BrowneIssue]

Even the Tories can't miss this open goal.

Your confidence is, well, frankly, misplaced. Unless you mean an own goal.

[DimPrawn]

If you look a little deeper, we are only in this mess thanks to Thatcher.

Just give New Labour another few terms in office and all will be sorted.

HTH