Letter to the Cabinet Office, 29th September 2008
Cabinet Office, Propriety & Ethics Team, Attn; Paul Ballinger
Re 'open courts' for victims of fraudulent public sector complaint procedures!
Dear Mr Ballinger.
You thank us for our letter (7/9/08) that we sent to the Prime Minister, copied to you by the Ministry of Justice for action.
Your letter (22/9/08) was headed the 'Propriety & Ethics Team', we immediately felt that the corrupt acts again us; and our call for 'open courts' to combat corrupt acts by civil servants, were going to be investigated on an ethical basis.
However, the Cabinet Office's lack of representation of facts within the Prime Ministers letter shows such a lack of honest investigative ability. It has also given us a bewilderingly incompetent directive, i.e. that we take our case back to the dodgy Parliamentary Ombudsman who was deceitful earlier in our case?
The scale of cover-up and 'hanging out to dry' techniques as used by government departments is frightening. It reminds one of Orwell's Winston Smith, who like many civil servants today, mutilated honesty, manipulated and fiddled the facts! Orwell wrote:
"Winston Smith was involved in rectifying past truths, where the past was brought up to date. Nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place".
There seems to be no Orwellian lengths, to which HM Revenue, the Ombudsman the Ministry of Justice etc, and now the Cabinet Office will go to suppress the corrupt acts by HM Revenue's civil servants! Or indeed other public sector miscreants!
Because of this slap-dash YES MINISTER' moment, we are dumfounded that the Cabinet Office has been 'put in charge' of our case? Disturbingly it gives absolutely no response to our request for 'open courts' designed to curtail public sector corruption, One only senses a furtherance of the 'hanging out to dry' routine?
Its quite undemocratic and fraudulent that government officials can hold data on millions of citizens, yet when we try to pin point corrupt acts by civil service miscreants - we are continually blocked by deceitful state machinery!
Our letter to the Prime Minister (7/9/08) was severely critical of civil servants. It was hi-jacked by the Ministry of Justice and sent to the Cabinet Office for its deliberations re incompetent, fraudulent and sometimes corrupt civil servants; whose plague-like problems Ministers seem to shrink from. The Cabinet Office's lack of 'know how' in answering on the PMs behalf, shows an appalling lack of public sector concern regarding the electorates complaints against civil servants?
We find it criminal, that after reading the Prime Ministers letter 7/9/08, that the Cabinet Office suggests we take our case to the dodgy Parliamentary Ombudsman yet again? We think this abominable directive is bordering on systematic contempt towards the electorate's aims at cleansing Whitehall!
For Cabinet Office information: A few years ago, because of our condemnation of the Parliamentary Ombudsman's attempts to play down the corrupt acts against us, we were subjected to frightening evening phone calls from an aggressive 'ombudsman inspired survey team'.
They telephoned us 3 evenings running. They were intent that we take part in a spurious ombudsman survey, against our will. They would not take NO for an answer, they continued to harass us despite our refusal to deal with them from the very first evening. Is the Cabinet Office interested in Human rights? Is the Cabinet Office not aware of the Ombudsman dirty tricks capabilities?
We are at a loss as to the Cabinet Office being so 'out of touch' in regards to our case? Yet it has been put in charge of our severe criticisms of civil servants as given in the PM's letter? Political observers would see this as another typically collusive civil service 'trampling down' of its critics!
We hope that you can see the "YES MINISTER" moment that arises from the Cabinet Office directive that we pursue the dodgy Parliamentary Ombudsman yet again?
We have asked the Ministry of Justice and the Prime Minister to consider setting up 'open courts' so that victims of civil servants corrupt acts, can have their case heard in the open - thereby by-passing the fraudulent public sector complaints procedures!
We asked the Ministry of Justice to investigate the biased Decision Notice; it was ignored! Would the Cabinet Office consider this act of cleansing - it is of public interest?
Over 5 years we have learned that civil servants and politicians have the power and the capacity to dominate and intimidate their critics. That public institutions are unaccountable; ever relying on powerful entrenched mechanisms of deceit, like 'hanging out to dry' techniques! That such public sector deceits are embellished, honed within a network of chicanery enjoyed within the 'old pals act'! Is the Cabinet Office enjoying its part in this 'hanging out' routine?
We understand that our criticisms of your colleague, the Ombudsman, and the Cabinet Offices gross gaffe in suggesting we attend her court yet again, are not going to help evoke the necessity for much needed transparency.
A recent government statement claims, 'that there is to be no turning back on public service reforms?' Is Winston Smith fiddling the facts again?
We are worried at the consistent cover up of corrupt acts by civil servants! As a war pensioner, millions of us did not put our lives on the line so that civil servants, with entrenched connivance, could trample down our democracy!
Yours sincerely
AW & I Tanner enc. letters to Minister of Justice (24/4/08&22/9/08) cc PM Ministry of Justice MPs Committee's etc.