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Dear Prime Minister
We have written to
the Minister for Justice revealing to him, to no effect, how
corrupt acts against us by the Revenue/VOA, had been manoeuvred
out of the way by the time we attended Tribunal proceedings.
That such fraudulent
cases against the electorate deserve to be heard in 'open courts'
divorced from public sector chicanery. Cancerous complaint
procedures run by civil servants and quangos are killing off our
freedoms. No one acknowledges this particular public sector
corruption!
We seem to be
calling for probity amongst wholesale deceit!
Open courts can give
victims of such corruption a voice to air their grievances,
allowing governmental miscreants to give account of themselves out
in the open, and not hide behind a panzer division of public
sector gravy train lawyers, as happened in our case. Citizen
complaint arrangements designed to prevent or uncover abuses by
public authorities are a sham! The 'old pals act' reigns supreme.
Our letters to the MOJ re open courts are passed on to the
Treasury who never answer? Sending letters to the Treasury has
gone on for some twelve months? What has the Treasury got to do
with open courts etc?
It has long been
hoped by serious academic studies that this squalid public sector
contempt for honest public duty, be countered by strong
accountability arrangements, designed as one academic suggested
rather optimistically 'to
keep the bastards honest'.
Such a refreshing observation; certainly no one within the public
sector tells it as it is. Citizens however now see, because of
more critical/transparent information available to them, that
public officials and agencies are something of a charade. The
often repeated 'Lessons will be Learned' excuse is now seen as
being disingenuous, no more than a cheap 'get out of jail
apology', allowing for more cock ups to be perpetrated later on.
After 5 years we
have learned that there is a serious
lack of accountability
within parliament and the civil service. We think that both these
public sector abominations feed off each other, enabling the gravy
train culture and contempt towards the public to coagulate and
thrive as a dung heap might, putting the welfare of the nation at
risk! One is appalled at the blatant spiv-like parliament
mentality of fiddling 'within the rules' while our soldiers,
poorly equipped, are sent to fight an unwinable war! More effort
by self-seeking politicians could have put the inadequate MOD
civil servants under scrutiny, preventing them from buying
inferior armaments and equipment.
We have moved into a
world where unworldly members of parliament, too busy with sleazy
expense accounts, are blindly delegating to ever more incompetent
civil servants. I am an English war pensioner, a one-time front
line soldier with guts, I am sick to death of being conned by
parliament and civil service sleaze. The integrity of my nation
is sliding away down Whitehall sewers.
More about stench -
it would appear there is evidence of the 'old pals act'
connivance, where the corrupt acts
against us
were smothered by the Parliamentary Ombudsman's deceit, neither
were these corrupt acts mentioned within FOI Commissioners biased
Decision Notice nor within the restrictive Tribunal Report. Our
case had apparently failed on procedural matters? Our case
deserves to be investigated by parliament!
We even suffered
hostile behaviour from the Parliamentary Ombudsman. Sufficient to
say that the players in this charade were cross protective of each
other. For instance the Commissioner felt justified in claiming a
dozen or so times that the seriously dysfunctional HMRC were
accountable? They were fraudulent in
our case! The
whole nation knows the HMRC is seriously incompetent and
fraudulent big time! I was not allowed to rebut this 'old pals
act' procedure at the Tribunal.
Prime Minister civil
servants have stood astride our case for some 5years, have
manipulated, stage-managed our appeal, allowing government lawyers
to manoeuvre the corrupt acts against us out of sight, hiding them
under the carpet. For civil servants to have such fraudulent long
term control over complaining members of the electorate is
something altogether what Orwell predicted, government officials
treading on your face forever!
Prime Minister we
have found procedural failures and failure by individual HMRC
officials - it all comes out in the melting pot in what Vince
Cable describes as ' cultural failure, an all pervasive management
mess for which everybody is to blame, but no individual is
responsible'.
Our complaint to the
Parliamentary Ombudsman that she was biased, resulted in our
having to suffer frightening evening phone calls from an
Ombudsman's spurious 'survey team' who, despite our refusal to
deal with them at the outset, telephoned us 3 evenings running,
pestering us to take part in an ombudsman survey. Refusing to take
No for an answer.
This was iron
curtain/banana republic stuff. Prime Minister such dishonest
governmental actions against the electorate are destroying our
nation. Parliament is guilty of promoting despots to key positions
within the complaints process. One hears they cannot be got rid
of?
We have previously
written of the public sector cover-up culture as despotic public
sector nepotism. We claim the 'old pals
act' is more
powerful than the 'rule of law',
we have written how complaints procedures are no more than
cesspits of denial, eroding away democracy. However, the
protection of the public sector status quo has become an evil
prescription that enables sleaze to thrive within virtually every
nook and cranny in Whitehall.
We are reminded of
Zenna Atkins claim 'Civil service is 'utterly antiquated'
(Observer June 08) that an email can be passed between 58 people
all desperate to protect their superior from embarrassment. The
whole episode had taken weeks of waste and not one of the people
batting it out earns less than £40,000.'
No accountability
We ourselves had,
over a period of 7 months, requested from the Inland Revenue
important information regarding their corrupt act against us; no
one bothered to reply. No accountability!
We were duped into waiting 18 months for information re an appeal
- the nominated person supposedly looking into our case did not
exist? We, as members of the electorate were treated to
institutionalised contempt. The miscreant who treated us so badly
was later over-protected by costly dodgy departmental lawyers,
escaping behind the DPA!
We suffered the
contemptuous Inland Revenues lack of
accountability
towards the electorate in defiance of the FOIact. How we, on
instructions from the FOI Commissioner wrote to the Revenue/VOA on
24th May
2006
asking the Executive
to furnish us with information. Not
until
14 months later, (10th July 2007)
did the executive
reply, apologising for the delay. A typical public sector
contemptuous 'get out of jail' apology!
The HMRC who was guilty
of treating us so corruptly
- have been guilty of numerous crooked exercises. It could be
argued that the HMRC are not fit to hold court over honest
criticisms from members of the electorate.
(1) HMRC legal
department has been caught out as being dishonest in British
courts and it's claimed their acts within Tribunals need watching.
(2) The
Parliamentary Accounts Committee reports that virtually half the
fraud across all government departments was taken by Revenue
staff
(3) The HMRC
Chief Operating Officer, who helps bring villains to account, even
imprisoned; was removed from office, (a nice friendly old pals act
- no trial for him) A matter of some £100,000 was involved.
(4) The infamous blaming of junior staff for the loss of personal data
on 25 million people has now been found to be due to HMRC
'serious institutionalised deficiencies'.
(5) We at one
stage suffered from Inland Revenues institutionalised corruption
after a dodgy internal investigation found that a Revenue
employee, who had treated us corruptly, had done so with the 'Best
of Intentions'?
(6) Accountancy
Web suggested that someone was needed to weed out the cultural
incompetence of the HMRC.
(7) From the
House of Lords we hear, regarding HMRC incompetence of its ' lack
of awareness in its obligations that go with public service'. As
mentioned earlier, academics have claimed we need strong
accountable arrangements to 'keep the
bastards honest'.
This public sector
scandal of ineptitude, lack of integrity and severe incompetence
will need several years of cluncking fists before it can be
cleansed. Such cleansing will need much political will - do we
have it?The British people deserve an honest public sector.
The electorate is becoming outraged that too many civil servants
and politicians are not being called to account for their
diabolical actions. We feel it would do the nation well if the
millions of public sector victims held a yearly
'Incompetent Public Sector' protest march. Millions of
citizens could 'let off steam' in regard to abysmal public sectors
fraud and corruption of duty.
As someone once
said, 'British politics increasingly attracts moral and
intellectual pygmies'; this applies to the public sector in
general.The Home Office, famous as the first to be described as
'unfit for purpose', infamous for 'sex for favour' demands, has
unscrupulously spent/claimed some £11m. on taxis, hotels and
flights for 2007. A nice little earner? Another severe lack of
accountability?
Prime Minister this is
not a party matter. It's all about the serious lack of public
sector accountability.
As a former front line soldier I am unhappy that our soldiers are
dying trying to promote our squalid version of 'nose in the
trough' democracy. For
instance in the Qinetiq scandal/robbery, many civil servants made
millions overnight by manipulating a 'self-interested stratagem'
within the MOD that helped to sell off part of a government
research agency for peanuts. Treason? What, one asks were the MOD
Ministers doing?
Of this scandalous
affair Edward Leigh chairman of the Parliamentary Public Accounts
Committee said; ' The MOD conducted the deal like an innocent at a
table of cardsharps. With the taxpayer the fall guy'.
These particular
civil service crooks should have been put on trial. How did they
get away with it? The entrenched 'old pals act'? How many other
snouts were in the trough? Was this the streamlined well-honed
Whitehall cover-up culture at work? Certainly no accountability!
From the same
fraudulent quarter we are dished up with another MOD scandal of
incompetence and contempt - the 'Chinook helicopter scandal',
just another MOD civil service giant golden cock up. It appears
that no civil servant resigned, no one was kicked out over the
appallingly stupid purchasing of inferior military
weapons/equipment that puts our soldier's lives at risk. The old
pals act yet again? No accountability!
We would like you to
take note of the corruption within the Inland Revenues complaints
procedure - how, it being so fraudulent that we have asked the MOJ
to investigate our case, where the role of the Parliamentary
Ombudsman, the FOI Commissioner and the Tribunal deserves
investigating. Their accountability feedback was virtually
non-existent.
We have had no reply
from the MOJ other than to say they have sent our letters to the
treasury department? The Treasury don't do 'open courts', I
suppose thats why our call for such courts were sent there; clever
this cover-up culture!
There is a tendency
for civil servants and quangos to evade or subvert accountability
with defensive routines and murky behaviour, what might be called
'accountability deficits'. Prime Minister we feel there may be
some reluctance by Parliament, because of its own sleaze, to come
to grips with the often incompetent, fraudulent and at times
corrupt public sector. No accountability!
Yours sincerely
AW& I Tanner copies
to all interested in public sector corruption
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