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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.
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 answers? 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 that 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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