Letter to Sir Gus O’Donnell, 26th Febuary 2010
Dear Sir Gus O’Donnell
Having written to you some 4 times re corrupt acts against us by your ‘honest’ civil servants, these acts against us were protected by the long arm of a corrupt complaint procedure, served by civil servants and ombudsman cover-up ‘porkies’.Your blatant deceitful propaganda statement, that civil servants have ‘Honesty, Objectivity, Integrity and Impartiality glowing within them like a stick of rock, is no more than another administrative ‘porky.’ You and the ombudsman are very senior officials and are supposed to serve the nation. Lies, deceits and injustices carried out by officials against members of the public - is on par with treason against the state! Civil service corruption is just as insidious to nations as the plague or even the pox.
Civil servants are seriously contemptuous re the attainment of ‘good governance’ and too many fail to give an honest service, while many are known to ‘feather their nests’
Severe incompetence (stupidity) and worse by self- seeking civil servants is systematic and far reaching, for instance;
From Canada where ‘a third of all Canadians lack a pension fund, 180,000 civil servants and their unions are a focus of a national campaign to make them share the pain’ – and stop milking the system!
From Singapore Prof. Huang said ‘the civil service lack the entrepreneurial and innovative drive as seen in the private sector.’ They are short on worldly ‘know-how’
From Fiji we read how its Prime Minister has called civil servants to ‘come out of their cosseted comfort zone’ and ‘serve the people?’ Is he not expecting too much?
From Japan the Prime Minister enacted a ‘bill’ to establish a new bureau to comprehensively manage appointments of senior officers in all government department – an effort to block the promotion of all those who are ‘crooked’, lack business acumen are ‘unfit for purpose’ ‘non-achievers’ and ‘time-servers’.
From Spain an academic points out reform of the public sector has two main sources of resistance (1) the party patronage machine and (2) the entrenched ‘jobs-for-life lobby.’ Having secured ‘jobs for life’ they then enjoy a cover-up culture that gives lifetime protection to bunglers and their ‘sick note culture’.
From Australia we read how a tainted senior public figure was being honoured, while current complaints against him was before a Misconduct Unit – the blatant ‘old pals act’ defying justice yet again.
Parasitic civil servants in planning offices worldwide are often ‘too close’ to bribing building contractors; this ties them up with ‘shoddy workmanship, crumbling buildings, schools, bridges etc that often bring death and injury to the populace. UK Ministers trying to get government projects started, have to pull levers to get civil servants up and running – but there seems to be levers within levers – that are not willing to connect.
Despite this disconnection re delivery, the Treasury, continue to pay out unwarranted bonuses, cementing the sordid status quo. How is it that so many incompetents and their unions have been allowed this stranglehold that denies the cleansing of public services?
For instance we wonder how civil servants have been allowed anywhere near IT contracts? Civil servants lack the public sectors innovative drive to push on to success – civil servants simply lack ‘creative problem solving techniques’ IT projects fail across all departments whilst government officials with little or no acumen, stand by overseeing ‘ballooning costs’ with some pleasure. It is now disclosed that an unofficial club of high-spenders exercise influence by fraudulently keeping budgets high?
Of this allowed public sector crime re waste, Bob Evens, Information Week writes, ‘It is a stunning example of the undisciplined spending based solely on a desire to retain maximum leverage on government via ever increasing spending’
While Chris Goodhall, director of Five One Two writes, ‘I think it is a fairly typical example of bloated IT costs which government ministers have been encouraged to pay for years. The tendering process is not delivering value for money’…he adds ‘The message (from civil servants) looks to be that governments should go along with the highest bidder regardless of the quality of what is being delivered, or what skills or innovations a smaller, and cheaper provider could offer’. Despotic 5th column crime?
The more they waste - the more they get from the Treasury?
This is pure corruption of the public purse, and shows the contemptuous lack of accountability by seriously dysfunctional numbers of ‘couldn’t care less’ officials and civil servants. It is estimated that serious incompetence has cost the taxpayer more than £22billion over the past few years.
Because of this continuing theft of taxpayer money, it is believed the Cabinet Office holds the stupid concept that civil service fiddles and failures are acceptable, worthy of the much over-worked Whitehall ‘blind eyed’ treatment.
Politicians are too busy to tackle this crime; their frenetic efforts to put-one-over on political opponents, too busy with political infighting to care too much about theft from the public purse. Politicians fail to smell the stench caused by this negligence in the honest running of government departments. See MOD Home Office DWP NHS Treasury/Revenue and the rest.
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, showed highly paid civil service managers and inspectors failed in their duty. Causing death and neglect over many years – thirsty patients drinking out of flower vases and worse! A crime against the people!
More abuse by Revenue civil servants, more than 2 million old people are robbed of some £450m – complicated ‘claim forms’ ensure they pay more tax than they need?
While there are many decent civil servants, a decadent minority has an eye for the many opportunities open to ‘crooks’ within many improperly supervised depts. The stupidity within governments is that they have allowed civil servants, aided by their unions to be self-regulating – hence the continuing abuse of public finances.
For instance in 2002 it was reported that swindling by employees of public money used elaborate scams, including creating false identities to claim thousands of pounds of bogus benefits. One fraud was found to be worth £180,000. With all this publicised corruption in 2002, one feels the government should have dropped the trivia re party hack politics and taken up the nations cause. Taking the civil service crooks and the Cabinet Office by the scruff-of-the- neck and gently squeezing all the systematic fraud and corruption out of every dept.
But no – there was no attempt to cleanse departments by governments or unions! Because 7 years later the freewheeling ‘inner squalor’ the same bog-standard public sector corruption was still thriving?
The Independent revealed, Dec 2009 that; ‘Crooked civil servants have cost government departments more than £12million over the past 3 years through a series of frauds, including bogus benefit claims and expenses fiddles’. That in the last year staff was responsible for £4.2million worth of thefts and fiddles.
The newspaper also revealed that one civil servant was excessively busy banking more than £350,000 by creating false records and authorising fraudulent repayment claims. While another public sector crook easily robbed his badly managed department of £246,000 by creating invoices for non-existent supplier, creating a virtual office address, a fictional company address and VAT registrations!
These unproductive public sector thieves were allowed all the time in the world to formulate their crooked ‘sidelines’ such failure to protect the public purse‘ is seen throughout Whitehall. Such crooks are allowed to ‘hack’ into our poorly protected finances, whilst under the protection of their unions and the Cabinet Office.
A Fagins den within Whitehall and no one turns a hair? How many in the swim?
There is nearly always the initial ritualistic ‘double-barrelled cover-up’ of theft within the public sector, where within the ‘closing of ranks’ and the ‘old pals act’ we find freewheeling ‘administrative corruption’ as the Independent claims; ‘Not all the corrupt perpetrators are reported to the police or confronted with internal disciplinary action?’ All governments seem to allow these crooked procedures? Is it because civil servants and their unions just know too much?
The ill use of power by many civil servants, their associations, along with the acquiescing stupidity of the Cabinet Office, has over many years allowed the public sector to subvert the ‘rule of law’. Thus enabling it to set up seriously low standards re public service, and its continuing failure to deliver many projects on time,
It is often said that unions and the Cabinet Office legitimise failure, ineptitude, contempt and fraud by civil servants. Yet unions show ‘pretended’ outrage when such fraudulence is pointed out – all part of Whitehall’s protective culture scam!
In a recent debate re Armed Forces it was stated that ‘there is a moral imperative owed to those who have served the Forces’- this claim shows such a lack of knowledge re corrupt civil service acts against old vets!
AW&I Tanner an old war pensioner, stuffed by despots within a crooked system! to all interested in governmental corruption of honest endeavour. (32)