Reid: "No More Cock Ups"

New Home Secretary John "Attack Dog" Reid has written for the News of the World: This extract is from politics.co.uk:

"The newly-appointed home secretary John Reid has said there will be no more 'cock-ups' over important Home Office systems. He said the current situation over foreign prisoners and deportation "just isn't good enough" but said he was eager to get started and sort it out.

It was recently revealed that more than 1,000 inmates have been released from prison without being considered for deportation, costing Mr Reid's predecessor, Charles Clarke, his job in the cabinet reshuffle. Speaking at the start of his new job, Mr Reid said taxpayers were right to demand that government systems worked properly.

"My task is to reduce fear and increase fairness for all citizens," he wrote in the News of the World.

He said that the courts should not put the rights of foreign prisoners before the safety of the British people, writing: "They [the public] believe that it is wrong if court judgments put the human rights of foreign prisoners ahead of the safety of UK citizens. "They believe that the government and their wishes are often thwarted by the courts. They want the deportation for foreign nationals to be considered early in their sentence, and are aware that this was overruled by the courts."

He added: "And they rightly believe that official systems in my new department, paid for by their taxes, shouldn't cock up systemically. "They believe the present situation isn't good enough and I agree with them.""

So, now that he's committed to no more cock-ups the Guttersnipe clock is ticking for his first one. Can I get decent odds on less than a year?

UPDATE: A matter of hours in reality - this isn't a systemic cock up but Iain Dale has chalked one up already. Maybe old Reid should give the PM his figures before he's asked about them.