More evidence that there are two laws!

Once again the actions of the government prove that there are two different laws, one for the rich and one for the poor.

Firstly, the directors of the failed banks escape justice from the Official Receiver and the Bankruptcy Courts that would have banned them from being executives of any company for a number of years and consequently from holding any form of public office.

But now other government officials get to resign rather than being sacked. They are therefore free to move to another job to continue their destruction of the things that British people used to hold in some kind of respect.

To make matters worse we force the resignation of really valuable people, like the Head of the Anti-terrorist Division of the Police, for trivial mistakes. Yes, I do mean trivial, by simply re-organising the schedule of their planned actions very little real harm was done and I imagine that he had a great deal of control over that re-organisation anyway. OK, he probably could not ave stayed in his current role but he should have been simply transferred to another and we, the British people, would not have lost his years of experience and the massive investment that we have made in his career. I imagine that the embarrassment he caused to himself was sufficient punishment without the need for anything else being done, but then he was not a politician and thus exempt from being kicked out.

Anyway a single Downing Street advisor can abuse his position and bring about total distrust of the entire government especially the office of the Prime Minister and all that happens if he is allowed to resign. I imagine that he will have a better paid job with a newspaper or such like within a few days.

If this person had been employed by a normal company he would have got the sack, probably lost pension and other benefit rights and been on the scrap heap as far as further employment is concerned. There would also have been the possibility of legal action for bringing his employer into disrepute or even prosecution under the Misuse of Computers Act. I trust that Downing Street does have an IT Policy that all of its staff is required to sign or am I just kidding myself why should the government follow their own recommendations?