My protest walk

For three days, running up to Remembrance Day, I displayed my protest placard sitting and walking around Trafalgar Square, then walked slowly down Whitehall still displaying the Ombudsman corruption message I walked through Parliament Square and down Millbank. It was here a young woman became interested in my story, copied the web sites from my placard and, after reading about our struggle, suggested our case had been ‘sandbagged’ by two man-hating female civil servants. (Was she in the know?)

At one time I stood talking amongst the NHS protesters congregating outside the Houses of Parliament. They were particularly interested in the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s corruption. I was moved at the Cenotaph when I realised there was some truth in what the young woman had said, relating to our being ‘hit’ by two ‘over the top’ belligerent hit-man female civil servants?

At the Cenotaph sympathetic Whitehall office workers and builders erecting the seating, informed me that another cold comfort cement structure was to be erected in honour of the dead?

What about some warm political democratic comforting honesty from public sector complaint procedures headed by the Parliamentary Ombudsman. (for surviving war-pensioners etc?)

There was much interest from many people who made comments about corrupt Ombudsman and civil servants, many either knew someone or had been involved themselves with fraudulent Ombudsmen. Even tourist who could hardly speak English spotted quite gleefully and understood the two words ‘corrupt Ombudsman’. It warmed the cockles of my heart explaining how the corrupt civil service complaint procedures work within its very own heavily protected collusive cover-up culture!

I spoke to various groups and individuals that were interested in my protest. Three different groups of students were keen to receive web sites. Many people were adamant that nobody who criticised governmental bodies ever gets a fair hearing.

One war pensioner claimed that there are no impartial judges in such circumstances. I was amazed at the extent civil servants are despised and how many people knew about dodgy Ombudsman decisions.

Many were annoyed at the Ombudsman’s concentrated efforts, often in collusion with other agencies, to dishonestly hit back at honest public sector critics, often fabricating evidence, or manufacturing of ‘porkies’ as they are now known within the disenfranchised complainant community. I was assured by two other war pensioners that my wife and I were not the first to call for the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s resignation.

Such discussions often turned to public sector corruption in general, one Welsh group claimed that local authorities are dens of iniquity protected largely by Ombudsman deceits and ‘slap-on-wrist’ decisions.

As people read my protest placard, I was often urged on by calls of ‘don’t give up’, ‘keep going’ , ‘well done’ and ‘Here Here’ particularly along Whitehall.

One American couple in Trafalgar Square, on learning of the stifling Ombudsman proceedings suggested I write to the Washington Post. I think they were keen to see a British repressive Parliamentary Ombudsman scandal.

A Swede was particularly interested in the way English Ombudsman protects civil servants while neglecting to give members of the public a even a semblance of quality service to taxpaying critics.

An educated Frenchman who seemed to understand corrupt Ombudsman machinations, made a shrewd observation by suggesting it was a complete waist of time going through any political complaints system. He claimed it was this precise civil service ‘inventive’ failure to deal with citizens complaints (hoping they would go away) that made people eventually take to the streets in great frustration.

He told me he was a lecturer! I got the impression he had, at some stage in his life, manned the barricades! Parliament, he claimed was largely a matter of ego trips?

He suggested web sites were the best way to erode away parliamentary corruption – slow to start maybe, but sure to become a powerful tool, because people can now engage in confronting and publicising corrupt or mediocre civil servants and unravel their cover-up industry

One must ask why parliamentarians are taking so long to get rid of these cancerous Ombudsman offices?

We realise we cannot get justice through Parliament, we have written to the PM, who does acknowledge our letters, we have written to Gordon Brown who does not. We have written to Parliamentary Committees, Lord Falconer regarding the slow FOI Act, and their refusal to answer our letters. Written to various MP’s, we are left with no redress against this corrupt parliamentary Ombudsman appointment.

It would appear that Remembrance Day is a sort of vote winner for posturing. With Establishment figures, newspapers etc. showing much gravitas at this sombre time. Yet despite much national grief, the same sombre Establishment is capable of starting another war, creating dead soldiers at the drop of a hat. They will have front seats at the Cenotaph as they promote another concrete glorification to dead soldiers!

There is little political respect for the war dead and its victims – it is only in the homes of war widows, war pensioners and the disabled that real respect and real grief and real pain is truly felt. Politicians and others have a careless remoteness towards such pain.

As a living war pensioner I deserve some respect also, some recognition that my democratic rights have been corruptly handled by government complaint procedures, such fraudulent decisions having been aided and abetted by the Parliamentary Ombudsman. That the Ombudsman has abused our human right! It would appear there is no redress against such an entrenched imperfect Office? It would appear this corrupt office is untouchable.

Although my wife and I, do not qualify for legal aid and cannot afford lawyers, we have at least found a vehicle that takes our case out into the open – we have the use of a web site!

We also have the support of Ombudsmanwatch I handed out these site locations, they were very popular especially amongst student groups.

I learned somewhere about a member of the dodgy ombudsman community who claimed he was appointed by the Queen, one can see immediately the fraudulent self-imposed squalid propaganda value of such an ill conceived statement. Ombudsman’s careers are largely based on denial of facts and lack of transparency when dealing with public critics, yet this particular dysfunctional ombudsman claims to have some sort of ‘royal representation’, its quite demoralising how much entrenched public sector corruption there really is!

I found my days protesting somewhat tiring, yet at the same time uplifting, by the honest derogatory comments made about civil servants and Ombudsman in general. After a few days rest I will continue my protest against public sector corruption!

J Tanner

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