Mind-blowing incompetence

As that Watchdog programme said the other night, it’s not as though we have a choice not to hand over our details to HMRC — in order to stay on the side of legal, we need to tell them everything about ourselves.

I’m not sure if the programme had been moved to Monday to prepare us for the staggering news yesterday that HMRC had lost CDs containing the details of 25 million people in the UK. Since Neil and I do not have any dependents, I do not expect to have an issue with my own details being used for nefarious purposes, but given the stories from Watchdog, where two people were given the same NI number (hence completely jumbling their details), I wouldn’t put it past them to have recorded several infants emerging from my womb in the last year.

• 21 Nov 2007

• Thinking