First it said there was no problem at all. Then it said reforms were already in place. Then it was revealed that it had previously deliberately rejected a proposal to correct the problem. Now the government has conceded there is a real risk of postal voting fraud and said it will put in place measures to prevent it -- but only after it has benefited from the corruption! As the Times reports:

'Labour is planning to legislate to stop cheating in postal voting immediately after the general election in spite of repeated assurances from ministers that the present system is safe, The Times has learnt. The disclosure will embarrass the Government, with critics pointing out that it is happy for the system to be used in the general election, even though it is clearly flawed enough to require speedy legislation. It will prompt charges that the Government failed to act sooner because it was worried that a shake-up of the laws might affect its own vote'.

It's the brazenness of this that is so astounding. After all, everyone can see the likelihood for fraud from the postal votes system at the forthcoming general election; and the government can see that everyone can see. Yet having now explicitly acknowledged the distinct risk that the election will be bent as a result, it proposes to benefit from this corruption before taking action to correct it that by definition will be too late.

Judicial review is the legal remedy for relief from unreasonable adminstrative actions. Does this scandalous decision not cry out for a concerned citizen to take the government to court?