Good old Ollie!!
Well, why should anyone be surprised! This is just the arrogant, condescending attitude I expect from the Tories. Made me laugh though, especially the cold war spies comment! teehee

The reality is that Letwin was simply sitting in the park on a few warm days and enjoying the sunshine whilst working, rather than working from his office a stones throw away. None of the items in question were protectively marked (even at the lowest level of restricted) so he was under no obligation to shred them (thou common sense might have warranted it to prevent this sort of thing occuring). There is nothing particularly strange about Letwin throwing away a few pieces of written correpondence he had already read and digested.
It might be worth adding that it is actually an offence under the theft act (theft by finding) to remove items discarded in a public bin prior to the bin being officially emptied by the bin owner/refuse collection service. Perhaps the journalist that took them, specifically to write a story that was in no way in the public interest and written purely to undermine the government in favour of that paper's political stance, should be arrested and charged with this offence. The Mirror has also lied and claimed the papers were marked secret, which is a total fallacy.. so a report to the Press Complaints Commission is in order. It is sad times that section 73 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 abolished seditious libel, as I would like to see more of these gutter press journalists tried for publishing lies about individual politicians.

This is in no way funny. When will this bunch of incompetents be brought to account?

A PM who regularly misleads the House due to his difficulty with facts and details, a Chancellor who has no understanding of economics, a defence ministers whose actions are indefensible, and a cabinet office minister who can't be trusted with official documents.

No wonder Ken Clarke seems embarrassed to be associated with these amateurs.

@ Lizalec
The article states that the documents contained constituents'private details. Given your comments you would presumably be comfortable with your private details being left in a bin like this? And I assume that Lizalec is also your real name because you would be happy about this.

Most people endeavour to keep their private data secret - Letwin is an ignorant moron if he thinks "it's not classified so anyone can read it". If he is so ignorant of basic security, it says a lot about Cabinet Ministers being arrogant thickos!

Oliver Letwin's personality more or less sums up the Cameron 'government', people who really don't have a holistic picture of society in Britain, and think in disjointed 'sets of beliefs' wherein anything that anything that promotes commercial interests is favoured. Such people, as illustrated by Letwin's carelessness, really aren't responsible enough to be governing our country. It's a shame so many of the electorate don't realise this.

Public litter bins are not intended for office waste, Mr Letwin should, at the very least, be fined for misusing this facility.

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Please Google:

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IBM detained mother of ex-employee on the day of centennial

i think he done it on purpose hoping these letters would be found by the press, but did not know he was being tailed by the daily mirror,,remember when new labour was in power,,all these files that went missing from the mod,,health service,security forces ended up been found left on trains and found in bins and or lying by some wall in the street,,this was no accident,but what the motive is wellwho knows..a true mystery

Does he have half a brain?

What a moron.

Beautiful.
Laugh out loud funny.
The only thing you can ever trust Tories with is their capacity duplicity.