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Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:30 am ]
Post subject:  No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach
Quote:
Downing Street has rejected suggestions that David Cameron might have caused a security breach by briefly leaving his official ministerial red box unaccompanied on the table of a train carriage.

A train passenger took a photograph of the red box, which was published by the Daily Mirror. The passenger told the paper: "It was just sitting there. I could probably have run off with it if I'd wanted to."

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... ach-denies

I rather expect that if he had “run off with it” he’d be answering questions in a police station.

Quote:
The transport minister Simon Burns caused controversy earlier this year over his use of an £80,000-a-year chauffeur-driven government car to commute daily between his Essex home and Westminster, claiming he used it only because he was barred from working on his red box of official ministerial papers on the train for security reasons.

The Cabinet Office contradicted this, saying ministers could work on papers in public as long as they ensured sensitive material could not be seen.

FWIW - the train journey from Chelmsford to Liverpool Street is around 40 minutes. I’ve driven as far as the North Circular on a working day down the A12 (which passes Chelmsford), and that took over two hours once I got to Romford and Ilford. Similar times on the M11 depending on the time of day. The train is certainly quicker and cheaper in this situation.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach
He is lucky that the public are more honest than MP's. If Cameron is incapable of looking after a red box he should be made to stay in the office until it is finished than be allowed to travel with it.
Author:  hifidelity2 [ Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach
Amnesia10 wrote:
He is lucky that the public are more honest than MP's. If Cameron is incapable of looking after a red box he should be made to stay in the office until it is finished than be allowed to travel with it.

He always has a few police with him (in plain clothes) so im sure there was no danger
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach
He left one of his kids behind in a pub FFS. It's hardly a surprise he might tottle off without his red box.
Author:  Spreadie [ Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach
jonbwfc wrote:
He left one of his kids behind in a pub FFS. It's hardly a surprise he might tottle off without his red box.

Nice one. ;)
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach
hifidelity2 wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
He is lucky that the public are more honest than MP's. If Cameron is incapable of looking after a red box he should be made to stay in the office until it is finished than be allowed to travel with it.

He always has a few police with him (in plain clothes) so im sure there was no danger

I am surprised that one of those officers did not mention it or stay with it.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach
Amnesia10 wrote:
I am surprised that one of those officers did not mention it or stay with it.

They're there to stop him getting shot or etc. not to stop him cocking up. I suspect it depends exactly what they think of him how likely they are to try to bail him out of any minor bits of foolishness he may get up to. I guess from this we can discern exactly what they think of him...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach
The fact that this is not the first act of stupidity from him probably indicates that either is an idiot and they think it as well.
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