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.......AGAIN!

The Government that is obsessed with having our details on databases should stop watching us and watch what it is doing with our data. The turkeys in the Labour Government have been widely reported to have lost more than 3 million learner driver details. This follows on from the 6,000 driver details in Northern Ireland and the 25 million child benefit data losses.

This goes beyond stand in Lib Dem leader Vince Cable's polite description of Gordon Brown as Mr Bean. Frankly this latest round of nonsense makes that an insult....to Mr Bean. The whole Labour Government are now dressed in stripy red and white hats and glasses as the public can now play Where's Wally in the Cabinet.

More seriously, if Government departments are losing our details so wilfully, what's to stop a potential terrorist slipping through the net with devastating consequences? Why did the Government need to keep records of learner drivers for more than a year? Surely after a year of driving, if no incidents have occurred they have proved they were correctly passed. The driver's details should then be merged to one file at the Driving Standards Agency as that of a qualified driver.

The only explanation to the contrary that springs to mind is that of an Orwellian attempt to have a blow by blow account of ordinary people's lives and for what purpose is that serving?

I am surprised we have not been treated to stories of ministerial papers disappearing from Her Majesty's Stationery Office-no that is not a department I made up. With plans to put more of our health records online, how long before several John Smiths of various habitats become worried they have diseases or illnesses of someone else?

With baited breath the public can only wait and shake its head at the farce this government has become. No wonder Tony Blair disappeared so quickly, like a fox in the bushes. David Cameron is certainly not losing any sleep over this. Any more Brown Government balls ups and the public will surely, come election time, tell Labour to GET LOST!

Please note, this post is intended as a semi humourous take on political events and as such in no way suggests members of the cabinet are actually Wally or indeed wallies.