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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
The Tories are coming out with hype again, l bet you anything that that saving will be NHS, as that is where all the pen pushers are, a friend of mine works for our local hospital, and she had three secretaries, and there were more admin staff than there were nurses and doctors, that is where the savings will come from - NHS.
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This sounds like a great plan to me, getting rid of pencil pushers hired during Labour's years.
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
If none of the politicians promised anything, what would be the point of campaigning?
The Tories have told us they have identified six billion pounds of savings. They therefore must be able to tell us where, when and how.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8610560.stm
In other news what a complete and utter twunt Gordon Brown is.
This story is astounding. Has it come to things like that to justify his authoritarianism? He is attacking the Tories for wanting to put a halt to the Government's illegal retention of DNA of those cleared of crimes.
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At present, there are about six million profiles on the national DNA database, making it the biggest in the world.
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EDIT: This is a great quote from the BBC story:
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Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said in 2008-09, some 79 rape, murder and manslaughter cases in England and Wales were matched to DNA profiles taken from people who had been arrested but not convicted of any crime.
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OK and how many of those 79 cases were
solved by this match? I mean presumably the police must have had some way to catch these people prior to the DNA database being created, so how many of those 79 cases relied on the DNA. Probably wouldn't be such a pleasing statistic, and certainly not justification for such wholesale intrusion of our privacy. More CCTV cameras per head than anywhere else in the world including China, and more DNA profiles on record than China despite having less than 1/20th the population.
All perfectly acceptable to some apparently.