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John Blundell
"WHAT should we learn from the cocktail of comedy and farce that the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) is costing four times more to run than it harvests? It comes as little surpise that the ARA is yet another failing offspring of the Home Office. Does any bit of that bloated bureaucracy in its swank new Horseferry Road offices work? Its brief got Prime Minister Tony Blair quite excited and we could all applaud the intention – to retrieve from criminals the loot they had stolen. Or should that be swag?"
