The government have provided a compliance regime for financial firms but seem to have lamentably failed to provide a compliance regime for government where ministers can rely on their civil servants to keep them free from compliance breaches.
As the article points out much of the covid lockdown shenanigans seem to have been civil servant led that the politicians unwisely went along with. Where was Humphrey Appleby raising a cautionary “ Do you think that wise PM or Minister?” to our modern Jim Hackers? The whole system should be set up so that it is virtually impossible for Ministers to be tempted to use private communication for anything official.
Steve Murray
1 year ago
Does anyone seriously think Liz Truss was responsible for her phone being hacked? How stupid a concept is that? The thought never crossed my mind when i read about it – until this article.
But… if politicians were protected from using the “wrong” forms of communication by civil servants, how would the BBC (in particular, but plenty of other MSM outlets) be able to conduct one witch-hunt after another? Indeed, the Director General of the BBC might be retitled the Witchfinder General! Braverman is, of course, the latest example.
It does beggar belief that there’s not a civil service team dedicated to precisely this type of security issue. Having generalists responsible isn’t good enough, just as having politicians responsible for their own data security isn’t. I’m sure it’d be possible, for instance, to earmark sensitive electronic documents in such a way that they couldn’t be transmitted except through dedicated channels.
Aaron James
1 year ago
Hunters Laptop…… now that is some wild stuff.
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Tom Watson
1 year ago
“Earlier this month Suella Braverman (temporarily) resigned as Home Secretary, after sending a sensitive official document from her personal email.”
Oh come on, that was the most transparent excuse for a resignation in history. “Aah, sorry Liz, would love to stay and go down with the ship after we’ve just had a public falling-out over immigration and you’ve become as popular as typhus, but I accidentally sent an email from the wrong address and must therefore do the decent thing. I’ll keep a seat warm for you on the back benches, it’s not like I’ll be needing it for long”
chris Barton
1 year ago
Can we discuss the contents of the leak? a “Its done” text just after the Nord stream pipeline was damaged.
The government have provided a compliance regime for financial firms but seem to have lamentably failed to provide a compliance regime for government where ministers can rely on their civil servants to keep them free from compliance breaches.
As the article points out much of the covid lockdown shenanigans seem to have been civil servant led that the politicians unwisely went along with. Where was Humphrey Appleby raising a cautionary “ Do you think that wise PM or Minister?” to our modern Jim Hackers? The whole system should be set up so that it is virtually impossible for Ministers to be tempted to use private communication for anything official.
Does anyone seriously think Liz Truss was responsible for her phone being hacked? How stupid a concept is that? The thought never crossed my mind when i read about it – until this article.
But… if politicians were protected from using the “wrong” forms of communication by civil servants, how would the BBC (in particular, but plenty of other MSM outlets) be able to conduct one witch-hunt after another? Indeed, the Director General of the BBC might be retitled the Witchfinder General! Braverman is, of course, the latest example.
It does beggar belief that there’s not a civil service team dedicated to precisely this type of security issue. Having generalists responsible isn’t good enough, just as having politicians responsible for their own data security isn’t. I’m sure it’d be possible, for instance, to earmark sensitive electronic documents in such a way that they couldn’t be transmitted except through dedicated channels.
Hunters Laptop…… now that is some wild stuff.
“Earlier this month Suella Braverman (temporarily) resigned as Home Secretary, after sending a sensitive official document from her personal email.”
Oh come on, that was the most transparent excuse for a resignation in history. “Aah, sorry Liz, would love to stay and go down with the ship after we’ve just had a public falling-out over immigration and you’ve become as popular as typhus, but I accidentally sent an email from the wrong address and must therefore do the decent thing. I’ll keep a seat warm for you on the back benches, it’s not like I’ll be needing it for long”
Can we discuss the contents of the leak? a “Its done” text just after the Nord stream pipeline was damaged.