Comments on: D’oH: this pains me more than it will hurt you…

By: Ideal Gov administrator

Ideal Gov administrator — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:39:06 +0000

An LSE friend has a sense of deja vu and reminds me of Baroness Scotland of Asthal dissing the LSE ID scheme report on 15 Nov 2005:

One reason why we treat the LSE study with caution is because it is just not as rigorous as one would normally come to expect.

But seriously, if there are factual errors in the JRRT report (and the authors concede one which is that we failed to realise that fingerprint data from those not convicted was now routinely held, just as DNA data is) tell us.

By: Ideal Gov administrator

Ideal Gov administrator — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:16:30 +0000

Help me out here. The DoH and you are saying there are factual errors in the parts ofthis report dealing with the NHS. But what are they?

By: Michael Cross

Michael Cross — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:58:24 +0000

Who’s blustering and waffling here?
You have just delivered what should have been the most intellectually coherent and damning study of UK public policy since 1997. Because you failed to apply the most basic fact-checks to a very large area of public service, the NHS, you fucked it. Every minister and perm sec now has an excuse to bin the whole work. At what cost to the ‘mature debate’?
You know the tools. For fuck’s sake get on with using them to get this stuff right.