How will the Tories prevent loss of data?

Question

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7514281.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7413826.stm

'The Ministry of Defence (MoD) admitted more than 650 laptops had been stolen over the past four years - nearly double the figure previously claimed.

The department also said that 26 portable memory sticks containing classified information had been either stolen or misplaced since January.'

Answer 1

Simple answer is they won't.

Same policies, same greed, same incompetence, different set of faces. That's all. So there won't be any change when that nice Mr Cameron is in No.10.

They're all the same Labour/Conservative/Liberal-Dem, don't vote for any of them, nothing will ever change.

Answer 2

Simple, they will just tell people that nothing has been lost, trust them, they are politicians.

Answer 3

Probably better to ask them but a more open question would be - 'What can be done to prevent data loss?'.  I expect all these people that have lost them have signed the Official Secrets Act and you would suspect that losing a laptop/memory stick is a contravention of that Act, so let's see some prosecutions under the Act!  We need more effective deterrents to reduce all sorts of problems - at least the Tories have stated that they will have greater deterrents in place...

Answer 4

The issue is the morale of the civil service. So no the tories can't do much and from my own experience under Thatcher that why I left the civil service.

The issue is the morale is rock bottom under new labour and under the tories it won't improve.

So where is new labour's claim to represent normal working people?

Answer 5

Investment in computer infrastructure, which can't happen under Labour because of the low Defence budget.