Well, the decisions are in on the plan to break up the Home Office into the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Counter-Terrorism, National Security, Border Control, and Unauthorised Ball Games. And the snark in that link remains applicable.
The only interesting news is that it’s even worse than I thought. Not only does the permanent secretary in charge of security, intelligence, and resilience, Sir Richard Mottram, stay at the Cabinet Office, although 150 of his staff will move over, the Foreign Office has successfully defended its rights over GCHQ and MI6. So, an “Office of Counter-Terrorism and Security” will sprout within the Home Office, which will have the “UK strategic lead” for these issues – but it will still answer to the JIC and the Cabinet Office, who will still have control of the interface with GCHQ and MI6.
Clearly, Sir Humphrey. Meanwhile, the Home Office has also asserted powers over efforts to “win the battle of ideas” against Islamic extremism, but this doesn’t appear to mean that the Department of Communities and Local Government has explicitly lost them. And, worst of all worlds, the Ministry of Justice will get prisons, probation, the courts, sentencing, the constitution, and relations with devolved administrations, taking over the Department for Constitutional Affairs, but the Home Secretary will still have a “core public protection role” in sentencing.
To put it another way, John Reid can still interfere with the judiciary to send more people to jail for longer every time Rebekah Wade sez so, but now, he doesn’t even have to budget for it. The Home Office gets to keep the anti-social behaviour industry, but has an undemarcated frontier with Communities and Local Government and also with Justice running through it. On the other hand, it gets to “lead” on terrorism and national security, except when it doesn’t.
Mmm, spaghetti! There is simply no way this is ever going to work, is there? I foresee that the whole thing will be re-organised again within three years.
But I’m merry. If that happens, it’ll be a great opportunity to sink the chisel into the bugger and chip off some more. And the triggering event is likely to be the eventual tits-up of the NIR. Even Dave from PR apparently wants to have elected police commissioners, a silly Texan idea, but one that could quite easily be hacked into a restoration of elected police authority control over the force areas.
Mullah Cimoc say ameriki people republican party now waking and the fog remove of the brain.
How bush destroy usa too much. destroy mental and emotional of amriki people.
but usa media so control (google: mighty wurltizer +cia) never to asking how bush becoming president.
this called the media coverup. bush family long time so corruption with intel community. am him bush jr. real republican? who these eviling people making him the president?
This make the cure for republican freedom people making majority. love the god, and love the family and working so hard every day.
but controlling hims of republican not this kind good person. him the wicked and loving the power and the torturing people, children of god, this too wicked. hims also loving the LBT (low back tattoo) and the killing the baby of abortion and ameriki woman becoming the slut for taking all the man.