AW & I Tanner to Gordon Brown 18th April 2007

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Dear Mr Brown 

Further to our unanswered letters to you (we enclose copy of our last 21st March 2007). We feel that because of the public sector contempt in general in relation to the corruption in our case, we need to give yet again an account of the corrupt handling we received from your Valuation Office Agency and ensuing investigations etc. 

We want to emphasis that we are writing to you simply because there is NO democratic even-handed Whitehall machinery in existence to combat blatant public sector complaint procedures fraud/corruption and severe civil service deceit. Also the VOA is part of your domain. 

It is also important to stress that the Parliamentary Ombudsman's Office is biased, lacking in democratic reality when dealing with citizen's complaints against public sector corruption. Because the corrupt VOA is overwhelmingly protected by an entrenched cover-up system, we feel it is necessary to approach your good self, leaving the ill-conceived and unjust complaints system out of the equation.  

Also, because you must be well be aware of cases such as ours that, as the next PM, maybe you could help eradicate this public sector cancer that has invaded our supposedly democratic complaints procedures.

Such were the concerted collusive efforts against us, that one realises that such a well-honed cover-up culture within the public sector complaint procedures have taken years to evolve. During which time many vulnerable complainants would have been steamrollered, bulldozed away from their democratic right to protest. 

Just a few incidents of fraudulent service. When we first appealed to the VOA we were immediately informed that we were  'out of time' - too late, this was a lie.

We were also told our appeal was invalid - another lie (quashed by a Tribunal 16 months later) The VOA were contemptuous of our appeal from its very beginning!

This abuse of duty by the VOA along with its inventive corruption was instrumental in elongating our appeal. This caused me, a citizen who had done his duty ( I am a war pensioner), much anxiety as I realised immediately that our so called democratic and human rights were being abused by well honed deceit from your dysfunctional agency. The ultimate insult to a war pensioner is the collusive action from a wide spectrum within the public sectors complaints system.

 The inventiveness in relation to corrupt acts against citizen complainants within the complaints system shows much ingenuity, and one realises it is born out of long-term entrenched contempt of public duty. We found it was easier for the VOA complaint procedures to lie to us, than it was for them to treat us in an honest manner! 

We found ourselves (my wife and I) chasing for democratic answers, to no avail. 

Early on in our case, in order to shut us up, an evil plan was hatched to scotch our appeal. We were told by a VOA miscreant who had previously lied to us that a 'Mrs Gupta' would be looking into our case and would be in touch. Initially we felt good that at last someone was looking at our appeal! We sat back in blind hopeful ignorance. During the course of several months we often wrote asking for copies of this 'Mrs Gupta's report'.  There was never an answer from the VOA?  We were given the 'hang out to dry treatment'! 

18 months later we discovered why the VOA had not answered our letters. We learned that the appointed 'Mrs Gupta'  had never ever existed in relation to our case, that our case had been corruptly put down - contemptuously bulldozed out of existence by the VOA's corrupt invention of the phantom 'Mrs Gupta'. Another audacious public sector lie! This purposely engineered VOA public sector deceit had demolished our honest appeal. Everyone including the Ombudsman,  involved in 'investigating' these corrupt acts against us, decided, as part of public sector 'old pals act', to deny anything nasty had happened? 

At this vital time of our chasing up our democratic rights - no one at the VOA 'let-on' it was all a corrupt act designed to bury our honest democratic appeal.  With pure civil service contempt they did not answer our letters re the non-existent  Mrs Gupta's report! It is difficult to believe that such lies were even condoned by the Parliamentary Ombudsman, who claimed in her report she saw no evidence of fraud or corruption - another case of NOT BEING FIT FOR PURPOSE! 

 This 'dysfunctional Treasury agency' along with the Parliamentary Ombudsman Ann Abraham are experts at putting public complainants down and do so with ease. We feel that there is a general acquiescence by politicians at this contemptuous abuse of power against such isolated vulnerable complaining citizens, who are overwhelmed- often scared into submission by such abuse of power by civil servants. 

There are other nasty bits of public sector abuse that we had to endure, as when after our many complaints, we were assured by the VOA Executive that a 'proper' VOA internal investigation would take place.

The outcome/verdict of the 'proper' VOA investigation was a travesty of justice, as  the VOA miscreant who had corruptly invented and engineered 'the Mrs Gupta lie' was said to have acted 'WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS'.  This was high level blasē contempt towards the public! 

The VOA, with its usual contemptuous ease later asked us to 'DRAW A LINE' under their corrupt acts?  This meant that after they had so corruptly abused our democratic rights, they then had the easy contemptuous effrontery to ask us to take part in covering up their corruption? This showed gross unethical contempt towards our struggle against public sector corruption!  

These fraudulent/corrupt acts by these obnoxious complaint procedures forced me, a sick war pensioner suffering the effects of cancer, to struggle along Whitehall with a placard condemning VOA and Ombudsman corruption and complaints procedure sleaze! 

Such blasē abuse of power can only come from entrenched confidence whereby such despotic government employees know that their very incompetent existence, their very contempt of duty as civil servants are safeguarded by Whitehall's Machiavellian cover-up industry.  

We have discovered how duty and honour have largely been got rid of, where sleaze has taken over! Where a dodgy Treasury Agency and a leading miscreant are given carte blanche dishonourable expensive legal protection! 

So much so, that even the Parliamentary Ombudsman felt bold enough to declare, despite being informed of the corrupt invention of the 'Mrs Gupta scam'  and the corrupt internal VOA 'investigation' that she could see no evidence of fraud or corruption in our case?  She even had the audacity to employ her very own 'porkies' in order to get the female VOA miscreant 'off the hook'. 

The Parliamentary Ombudsman even felt secure enough within this engineered contemptuous Inquisitional environment to 'lean on us' by allowing her orchestrated 'pushy survey team' to invade our privacy with nuisance phone calls over several evenings. Despite our continued refusal, they persisted in calling, asking against our wishes if we would take part in an Ombudsman's 'dodgy survey'. We felt threatened by this!  

Because of our uproar over this Nazi style trampling upon the democratic principle of open government the Parliamentary Ombudsman promised (with obvious self-protective crocodile tears) that her dodgy survey team 'WOULD NOT DO IT AGAIN'   You could not make it up! 

I, a war pensioner was being harassed along with my wife, because we had dared to challenge public sector corruption - there is something evil in this Ombudsman harassment set-up! 

We realised this Ombudsman inquisitional treatment handed out to us was the work of a hardened loony left immoral despot besotted with jack-boot tactics designed to soften up public sector critics. As a war pensioner I object most strongly at becoming a victim of misplaced political power - I object to becoming a victim of a Nazi style political misfit who grossly abuses such power.  

Is this public sector abuse going to be meted out to our young front line soldiers of today who, if the corrupt Ombudsman system stays as it is, may well have occasion in the future to complain about corrupt civil servants such as the Ombudsman. 

Ombudsman inspired evening telephone calls and porkies are indeed  part/parcel of this Kafkaesque abuse of political power. 

ALL THIS WITHIN WHITEHALL One begins to realise that it is only this tacky entrenched public sector cover-up culture that holds everything somewhat tenuously together! One can see the crumbling of various departments largely because of incompetents and a lack of proper care to honest endeavour in relation to public duty. TOO MANY BEING  UNFIT FOR PURPOSE!  

We were worried to find that during four years of struggle, a commitment by many public complaints sector staff to an entrenched cover-up culture that rejects the notion of democracy. We believe that such gross unaccountability will, in the long term, prove that Whitehall democracy as practised today, means its eventual rejection of the Freedom of Information Act and the hoped for political freedoms! 

We had occasion to write to the PM (10 Jan 2007) ...I quote; .'We have discovered to our cost, how a prominent civil servant, the Parliamentary Ombudsman, has by deceitful orchestration abused her powers where, instead of protecting the public, her office has become by devious design, a protector of corrupt civil servants and a persecutor of citizens rights'. 

Stalanistic disregard for honest democratic public service is now commonplace. 

Once we had nailed the Ombudsman's lies in pursuit of our cause the PO closed down our case. Then as if by magic, or internal intrigue, the Freedom of Information Office did the same. The public sector had effectively closed down our case - an old war pensioner had been disenfranchised, by public sector abuse of power -  they obviously hope, that if the complainants are ignored or 'hung out to dry' they will go away - allowing the corrupt public sector acts to be swept under the carpet! 

The eternal public sector sleaze and contempt abounds within Whitehall!  Even quite recently when we wrote to the Lord Chancellor concerning the ICO’s closing down of our case - our letter was passed on to the Revenue & Customs men. Now they, instead of dealing with it, passed our letter over to the corrupt VOA (Who, would you believe it had acted corruptly against us for 4 years?)

They, the VOA, then without more ado bulldozed into oblivion our letter to the Lord Chancellor concerning the ICO closing down our case? We ask however did the Revenue & Customs men allow this corrupt VOA to bulldoze away our Lord Chancellor letter that showed our concerns regarding the FOI Act?.  

This was a Whitehall farce where the corrupt VOA was allowed to have the final say and bulldozed away our question to the Lord Chancellor re the ICO?

It has become apparent to the public that this Machiavellian gel of deceit and bias and severe incompetence by governmental departments is given protection by the shallow cover-up industrious Parliamentary Ombudsman's office.

We realise that too many parliamentarians are purposely looking the other way! 

We feel that this long term Machiavellian cover-up culture has allowed much of the public sector complaint procedures into a cosy self-protective style of mind-sapping political intrigue, designed to punish citizen complainants into submission with numerous well honed sacred 'old pal acts' deceits, bias and lies.

Our present day shallow Ombudsman service fits snugly in with such an evil system of Inquisitional style repression of facts.

Yours sincerely 

AW & I Tanner

A war pension victim of the Treasuries corrupt Valuation Office Agency & Ombudsman service.

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