You pay for my cock up

Tony McNulty gets a raw deal. Whenever there is a Home Office cocks-up (which is worryingly often) he gets sent out to explain away.

The latest is the aborted police merger plans. Labour wanted it, no one else did. Labour pushed it through and the police started making arrangements, the arrangements cost them money. Labour pulled the plug on the idea leaving the police financially out of pocket. Labout cocked- up the police had to pay for it! Literally.

This is money that could have been spent on extra PCSOs, extra technology, more patrol cars or even . . . . . . . .more police officers. If the home office were a brewery and you got an invitation to a rowdy drinks party how confident would you be that it would go without a hitch?