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		<title>Rant: What a Charlie!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first of a long series of Home Office gaffs...as seen by an HO insider
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<p>The latest home office fiasco has demonstrated why Charles Clarke is earning his nickname: &#8220;Jockstrap&#8221; (because he is full of b*llocks).</p>
<p>Not content with <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4945092.stm" title="BBC Article (opens in new window)" target="_blank">inadvertently releasing over a thousand foreign prisoners</a>, it&#8217;s now clear that the Home Office freed 288 foreign prisoners <b>after</b> they became aware of the problem last summer! In all, the home office released 1023 offenders between February 1999 and March 2006.  They included those guilty of serious offenses including drug dealing, rape, murder and pedophilia.</p>
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