BBC News Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 16:18 GMT 17:18 UK
Immigration system unfit - Reid
 Mr Reid says he has had to deal with 'a tidal wave of events' |
Other failings showed the Home Office could be "dysfunctional" and "wholesale transformation" was "probably" needed.
Although he did not rule out splitting the Home Office, he told MPs there was some logic to its current structure.
Ex-minister John Denham called it "a fairly stark assessment of the state of the Home Office".
Mr Reid told the Commons home affairs committee that jobs could still go after 1,019 foreign prisoners were released without deportation being considered.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5007148.stm
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Subject: Home Office Not Fit For Purpose
Date: Tuesday 23 May 2006 12:06
From: Gary D Chance
To: news24@bbc.co.uk
Why didn't this Labour Government recognise this and take the necessary steps to address this Home Office problem when it came to office in May 1997?
Nine years of disaster after disaster have occurred including my nearly eight years of 24/7 surveillance.
I believe the problem goes far deeper than this statement and reflects upon this Labour Government to the extent that it has created a culture in the Home Office which has led to these catastrophes.
The bilge that John Reid started spouting at the beginning of this testimony with regard to going back to the Cold War and the political alignments then was something that they (Jack Straw) should have recognised long ago and taken steps to prevent the catastrophes which have occurred.
Yes, the times changed when the Iron Curtain dissolved. That's pretty obvious isn't it?
The great problem for all of us is just how much else has gone askew at the Home Office like my surveillance which is not general public knowledge yet.
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Ooh, I know!
- 23 May 06, 12:48 PM
"It's worse than you think. That was John Reid's message about the state of the Home Office this morning.
"It is what I call the Sybil Fawlty defence (for those too young to remember Fawlty Towers, Sybil Fawlty used to say "ooh I know" whenever told any piece of dreadful news)."
Check out this blog entry by Nick Robinson the BBC's Political Editor at the link above. It has special relevance to the surveillance activity being carried out from both its farcical character as epitomised by Fawlty Towers and the fact that one of the key perpetrators of the suveillance violence against me always says "I know." In fact, she says "Ooh, I know!" exactly as Sybil Fawlty does. This is the mother of the abused children whom I reported for this abuse in May 1998. She was instrumental in getting the surveillance technology installed in August 1998 based upon false allegations and has been stalking and harassing me with its use 24/7 since that time. She is totally obsessive driven by an unrelenting and incessant rage.
In recent months she agrees with everything that anyone else says especially Lt Harry Bird by declaring "Ooh, I know!" It has been quite funny listening to this continuously, and I mock it in my tape recorded notes as infantile omniscience since she pretends to "know" everything and anything as long as it supports her negative attack against me. When I read this blog, I found it very funny since it fit my experience with this dysfunctional home office surveillance activity. She is able to keep at her criminal use of the surveillance technology based upon totally false allegations and false negative characterisations which are repeated continously 24/7. Whenever anyone else says something, she then echoes it with "Ooh, I know!"
I would post these couple paragraph's on Nick Robinson's blog, but it would be irrelevant to his context and not fully appreciated since this surveillance technology and its abuse are not yet general public knowledge. However, here it makes for a valid comment in the context of my experience, what is happening in the Home Office and this oft repeated phrase about which Nick Robinson has reminded us all. In my context this can also be seen as a variation of one of the games which Dr Eric Berne described in his 1960s book Games People Play. That game is called Ain't It Awful (AIA).
These games are quite complex and carry variations from person to person and situation to situation, but the essence of games is dishonest behaviour seeking to manipulate others for a payoff. I've found the language of game playing used frequently by Lt Harry Bird most often in the context of 'win' or 'lose.' Dr Berne describes one variation of AIA as: "In AIA the agent seeks injustices in order to complain about them to a third party, making a three-handed game: Aggressor, Victim, Confidant. AIA is played under the slogan "Misery Loves Company." The confidant is usually someone who also plays AIA." (Eric Berne, M.D., Games People Play: the Psychology of Human Relationships, Grove Press, New York, 1964, p 86)
In my situation this captures the essence of this game played by these two people against me. They each play the differing roles of Aggressor and Confidant alternatively with the Confidant responding with "Ooh, I know!" as a variation upon saying "Ooh, I know! Ain't it awful!" All the elements of game playing are present including the payoff for them when they "win." I've been in a perfect position to observe, document and report this human behaviour. It's fascinating that it too is a component of the as yet undisclosed dysfunctional character of the Home Office.
Was John Reid playing a variation of Ain't It Awful before the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee today?