ITV News: Clarke ‘botches race figures’

Home Secretary Charles Clarke has been forced to withdraw new race crime statistics after it emerged they were riddled with errors.

As reported by the Press Association yesterday, the Home Office said racist incidents reported to Dorset Police had soared 556 per cent when the true figure was 56 per cent.

And these people want to control our lives. What next, David Blunkett for Parliamentary Ombudsman? Is there any other walk of life where this kind of idiocy wouldn’t get you fired or bankrupted? A cake shop boasting of selling 556 buns a day when actually it’s only selling 56 would be bust in a week, you would think.

To call this a schoolboy error is a gross insult to schoolboys. There are laboratory chimps who have been taught to process information more efficiently.