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Dear Prime Minister
We
have written to you many times over the years about fraudulent
complaint procedures; first as Chancellor then as Prime Minister,
but never once did we get a reply.
Because of the habit of non-delivery of criticisms within the
public sector, see Observers Antiquated Civil Service article
(15/6/08), we are not sure that our complaints would have reached
you. Such is the public sectors self-protective stranglehold on
transparency.
In
our last letter, (July 3 2008) we showed concern at the way we
have been corruptly handled by the Revenue/VOA and the public
sector complaints procedure in general. How we have been hit by
the 'old pals act' that we now see as being more powerful than the
'rule of law'.
We
again explain to you how, members of the electorate having a
complaint against a government dept are in dire need of 'open
courts' completely removed from public sector complaint procedures
chicanery.
Because of gross neglect of our liberties we have recently written
you of much incompetence and fraudulence and some corruption
relating to government dept. We think, because of their corrupt
acts and squalid extraordinary financial perks, the Revenue needs
to be addressed.
We
are annoyed that we have suffered from the generalised sub-culture
of deceit found within the HMRC.
We
are of the opinion that as honest electorate complainants, that
this seriously dysfunctional Government Revenue dept. with its
laden incompetence and fraudulence and inbuilt contempt towards
the electorate,
is not morally fit to hold court against
us!
We
are sick to be judged by such a squalid Revenue mentality that
denies probity. Then, having been fraudulently handled by them, we
have to sit back and watch the Revenues contemptuous acts
qualifying themselves for 'pat on the back' unearned bonuses?
Relating to public sector fiddles or bungling that we mentioned in
our last letter, the latest contemptuous act in relation to public
money, concerns the Revenue civil servant, who having some
responsibility for losing 25 million of citizens details, has
departed the Revenue with some £2.3m. The whole nation is being
corruptly handled by these contemptuous 'unfit for purpose'
bungs.
The
Revenues, blatant 'old pals act' generosity is long entrenched. In
the PAC Ninth report, the committee asked of a Revenue crook, 'in
addition to the £148,700 proceeds of his corrupt activities and
the £58,000 paid in salary, why the Revenue made hardship payments
totalling £35,000.
The
reason we mention this case is, it shows quite clearly the
brotherhood loyalty by Revenue management to its 'caught out'
personnel? Instead of naming and shaming fraudsters, it closes
ranks. Nine managers (berated by PAC) who, despite complaints
against him, failed to investigate their crooked colleague. Severe
lack of accountability by the Revenue?
The
'self-enrichment for failure' by unregulated officials handing out
public money is reaching plague-like proportions - its never
ending. Whitehall troughs are receiving unearned bonuses of some £128m
Because of this constant drip drip of financial abuse within the
public sector, many citizens are now feeling, with much
justification, that these administrative abominations are just the
tip of the iceberg.
The
same troughs are appearing in Local Authorities where, while
councillors are blindly making political points against each
other, council 'officers' are continually upping their salaries
etc - few seem to have the acumen, the accountability that
ratepayers deserve.
To
the general public there seems to be a general malaise regarding
honest endeavour within the public sector. Following on from the
30 serious breeches of data security, we learn from the MOD
that some 650 odd laptops have been stolen, with another 89 lost?
There
was some attempt at a cover up however, Defence Secretary D.
Browne was forced to issue revised figures after
'anomalies
in the reporting process' were discovered? No accountability!
It
was also revealed by the MOD that 131 highly sensitive USB memory
sticks had been stolen or lost. It was reported that many of
these were 'secret'? Do we employ crooks or foreign agents? Do
we understand what accountability means - do we care?
A MOD
spokesman in ridiculous ' Lessons will be Learned mode', claimed
'MOD Loss of data is investigated fully'? So that's OK then, we
can be assured another 'unfit for purpose' dept has got it
sorted?
It
could be argued that since Lord Nolan pointed the finger at the
public sector to clean up its act- its administration has got
worse not better!
Those of us who put our lives on the line are fed up with
parliamentary conjuring with its sleazy expense routine etc. No
wonder that many civil servants jump on the bandwagon!.
Prime
Minister, in order to give the electorate an idea of what is going
on in government circles, we were thinking, in the interest of
transparency, that a series of
League tables
should be set up showing the most corrupt
government departments!
League tables showing the most incompetent departments; League
tables showing who is losing most taxpayers money; tables showing
the most corrupt office, tables showing areas of most thefts of
government property. League tables showing the departments most
successful in downloading child pornography (supposedly a common
practice).
And
of course League tables showing the most incompetent or fraudulent
Local Authority or ombudsman etc.
One
could go on, but because such information would have to be
provided by civil servants, we realise we would always be short of
transparent data. But we are sure if it ever happened;
publication of honest governmental tables 'warts n all'
would be a vote winner!
One
of the problems of government is the poor infrastructure of
numerous 'unfit for purpose' departments or agencies that are set
up by government. For instance FSA seems to have been constructed
with its own 'unfit for purpose' regime already built in - ready
to go.
The
FSA is now described as suffering a 'decade of regulatory failure'
a case of promoting incompetent civil servants to positions from
which they cannot deliver. Were these 'old pals act' political
promotions?
This
FSA fiasco neatly fits in with our allegations that 'unworldly and
incompetent Ministers are delegating to incompetent civil
servants. One cannot continue to turn a blind eye at the shortage
of quality Ministers and civil servants. The FSA saga highlights
the serious initial ineptitude of officials, this guaranteed a
doomed agency.
Because of our experience and media information, we are now aware
there is a sort of general acquiescence to incompetence, fraud,
chicanery and sleaze within the public sector. There seems to be
no shame in such public sector subterfuge, where deceitful 'get
out of jail' apologies are readily spat out. It would appear that
no one dare point a finger!
Prime
Minister it's fairly easy to see how the public become apathetic.
In
our 5 year struggle with public sector corruption we have come to
realise that the 'old pals act' is fundamental in keeping numerous
'unfit for purpose' government depts/agencies afloat! Much
deceit and fraudulence is successfully hidden away from the
public's gaze.
Prime
Minister, we again plead that it would be most beneficial to the
nation/electorate if we held an
'Incompetent Sleazy Civil Servant Day'.
The
whole nation could celebrate this day with a much-needed communal
outcry against public sector incompetents, fraud and corruption
etc. Such a display of citizen annoyance might just force
Ministers, public sector staff and management and politicians, to
get their fingers out and become more accountable towards
citizens.
With
apologies to Grimm, 18c; 'How many of us have the stamina to
fight against all the ills involved by the immensity of the
state, the multiplicity of our laws, the slowness and uncertainty
of our justice, the impunity of resourceful and clandestine
governmental crime and the unjust power of the public sector'.
It is
becoming apparent that the larger the public sector, the more
corrupt it becomes, with evermore incompetence and sleaze, showing
utter contempt for the public purse. It is evident, that because
of the ease in setting up troughs within the public sector, those
who set them up become more emboldened - and set up even more!
Bonuses for your public sector pals is a sort of treason!
We
were promised world - class public services - yet we have found
that complaining members of the electorate cannot be critical of
government or local government without being corruptly handled by
the public sector cover-up culture. Where all too often, one
suffers the double whammy of deceit, where the ombudsman's final
judgements continue the chicanery!
We
wrote to you (18 April 07) that there was no democratic Whitehall
machinery in existence to combat blatant public sector corruption!
We are beginning to realise that parliament does not have the
will/ability to correct the nations plague-like public sector
accountability gap!
Yours
sincerely,
AW &
I Tanner cc to all interested in political sleaze etc
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