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I read this letter in the Guardian today:

“This is a potentially serious matter for millions of families. But to make it into a government scandal is way over the top. The revenue head did not need to resign; Gordon Brown did not need to make an abject apology. David Cameron and George Osborne used the foolish action of a local official to create an atmosphere of personal challeange to the government where the blame lies far down the line.”

What did you say?

For the record:

• The huge loss of personal data will leave its victims at the potential mercy of professional fraudsters.
• The revenue head did rightly resign, but the Chancellor Alistair Darling, a close colleague of Prime Minister Brown, should have gone too.
• Brown tried to do his usual trick in hiding away when stuff hit the fan… except that many of the problems leading to the scandal started with him.
• The opposition parties have every right to lay the personal blame of the scandal to the one person responsible… namely the Prime Minister. Every major spending decision of this government since 1997 has been made by him.

This is a governmental scandal of huge proportions… and unless Brown takes personal responsibility for this, he… and the Labour government, will continue to suffer more losses in moral support.