Home Office Manglement

Yet again a Home Office official sat before the Home Affairs Select Committee and had no facts or figures about the ongoing foreign prisoner crisis. Lin Homer, the head of the Home Office's immigration and nationality directorate (IND) did however say something far more worrying. When responding to the problems in the IND she said "My business is an under-managed business... the sheer number of senior managers seems to me to be insufficient."

Chronic bureacracy and poor management (or more rightly manglement) is the precise reason the Home Office is in such a mess. It's astounding that someone would suggest that increasing the bureaucracy and number of senior managers would solve the problem. If anything adding further layers of management would slow the processes down even more. "Businesses" (is it right to call the Home Office a business?) succeed when they are streamlined and efficient not when they're bloated by ever more senior management.