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I had little time for Charles Clarke as Home Secretary, but I think he was pretty poorly treated by being sacked in the wake of the "deportation of foreign prisoners" affair. After all, he's only been in post just over a year, and the problem goes back way beyond that. He certainly didn't handle the way the news broke very well, but the punishment seems out of all proportion to the offence. And now we have John Reid, Gawd 'elp us! The words "frying pan" and "fire" spring to mind.