NICE TO FEEL SECURE

                                                         

                                                             NICE TO FEEL SECURE

I read with a degree of acceptance and resignation that the Director General of MI5 announced that in his opinion thousands of Islamist extremists in the United Kingdom see the British public as a legitimate target.   Andrew Parker said Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Pakistan and Yemen present "the most direct and immediate threats to the UK".   This comes at the same time as the independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration found that fewer than two thirds of passenger movements were checked and that almost 650,000 records relating to smuggling had been deleted by those responsible before they had been read - unbelievable!

Who allows this situation to get into such a state?   Is it that we just have too few people on the borders because we've cut back to the point that it is totally ineffective?   Is it incompetent management?   Is it agency workers?   Is it that the staff are totally demoralised by the change of policies?   It doesn't seem to matter what industry one works in, the workers always seem to be the whipping boys and girls for government ineptitude and mismanagement.   Policies seem to change so quickly that nobody can get into a routine and see any structure that isn't going to be destroyed and replaced by yet another structure before the first one has had time to bed in.

Still, as long as we know that terrorists in the UK number "in their thousands" I am sure that will  help with their  next restructuring.