Unaccountable Civil Servants

WHERE DOES ONE START? THERE IS SO MUCH TO CHOOSE FROM, Civil Servants in Jobcentres, The Inland Revenue, The Department of Work and Pensions, The Council and Councillors, Members of Parliament, National Health Service and a Mayor...... we will show you all of these, name them and reveal how they are fleecing the taxpayer and covering their tracks with lies, deceit and corruption.

CIVIL SERVANTS are supposed to be ordinary people just making a living, but don't be fooled, they are nothing of the sort.  They agree to sign up to the Official Secrets Act and have Crown Protection, they are bought and paid for in their salaries, and they will treat other members of public with contempt and complete disregard if they choose to do so.  They cannot be challenged with total success and proving anything against them is a waste of time, you will lack evidence and they will subvert all and any enquiries.

The Complaints system in the DWP and Jobcentre is designed to take six months.

The  Complaints/Appeal system in the Tax and Inland Revenue will take four months

The Complaints system in the Council can last over twelve months or more.

Most Court Actions rely on the claimant going through one of the systems mentioned and if you chose not to (because you cannot trust them) the Judge will probably strike out your claim  ----  your freedom of choice has been eroded completely.

Just lately, in the Spring of 2009 The Daily Telegraph exposed the Fraud and Corruption in the House of Parliament, and it went very deep.  The public were shocked at how many pigs were in the trough helping themselves in the grand name of expenses - The Expenses Scandal - the attempted cover-ups and denials.  But one group has been missed in this expose by The Telegraph --- The Civil Servants.

So let us get down to business and expose some of them here:

' Where Government Corruption Started '

IT MORE OR LESS STARTED IN THE 16TH CENTURY, as with the Police, corruption in government isn't a new thing, no, it began around 1700 with ' THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE ' a bubble that burst exposing the government and those who dealt with shares and a company that had no assets.  It led to a financial scandal of huge proportions.  Investment and shares was the game (not unlike the recent banking scandal), and the government were in the thick of it.  The South Sea Company was in trouble, it showed a deficit in the accounts and owed the Chancellor £14million (in that time!), which was half the size of the National Debt.  Thomas Brodrick for the Government was looking into these affairs as they had become very serious for the country.  He told MP's he had uncovered the largest scene of villainy and fraud that was ever perpetrated.  ' The Committee of Secrecy' - yes, one can hardly believe that eh?  a government department said the company ledgers had false and fictitious entries.  Before they could complete their findings, some of the Company books went missing and others were destroyed.  Brodrick dropped a 'bombshell' in the House of Commons, as he declared that he had evidence of corruption at the heart of government -- exposing that Sunderland had taken bribes, and that Robert Knight had concealed Sunderland's role at the request of John Blunt.  Deputy Governor Charles Joye said Knight insisted that £100,000 worth of stock shares should be reserved for ' the friends' of Sunderland.  The Commons listened to news of corruption on a staggering scale -- and share dealings carried out by the Treasury Secretary Charles Stanhope that were amazing.  The Committee could not find any evidence of Stanhope paying for 10,000 shares he claimed, then worth £25,000.  As the calamity unfolded more names in the house were exposed all going up to the King, professional investors and the Church.  Yet when it came down to charging them with crimes,  (the government lawyers were hurriedly changing the law and its interpretation) - they were all protected from the full force of justice?  The Public were outraged, but there was little they could do, they didn't have power over soldiers, legislators, all favourable to the government and Crown, and it just faded into history.

DOESN'T THAT ALL SOUND FAMILIAR TODAY?

HMRC - the untouchables -- or corruption on a new level?

ONE GROUP OF CIVIL SERVANTS HAVE MORE PROTECTION AND POWER THAN THE OTHERS and that branch is known as HER MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS AND EXCISE and THE INLAND REVENUE -- HMRC --who can practice it the utmost secrecy without fear of prosecution or investigation -- No Minister has authority over them -- There is no known investigation that has ever been successfully lodged against this branch of civil servants because of the immunity they have been granted. The power they have was never granted by the people of Britain it came from the politicians and the judiciary.

We list the following cases, reports and articles in support of another Web Owner who contacted us for information to put on his site which entirely focuses on the Inland Revenue and Excise Officers.

' Customs and Excise Elite Squad investigated for Corruption '

' TOO MUCH POWER GIVEN TO CUSTOMS '

' Customs Officer arrested for groping women in trains '

A SENIOR OFFICER NICHOLAS SHAW appeared in court accused of groping women in busy and crowded trains.  Manchester Crown Court heard that there were a number of incidents involving women who claimed they had been touch up by Mr. Shaw during their journeys. A fifth woman said she felt uncomfortable when Shaw stood so close to her on the train.

HIGH RANKING CUSTOMS OFFICER'S NAME KEPT SECRET BY OFFICIALS - We have been prevented from naming a senior customs man by the Ministry. Our Private Detective Richard was following a lead based on a tip-off that a senior customs man was corrupt and in the habit of taking bribes in order to make things okay for his contacts.  Richard found this to be the case and made enquiries about the man and his personal life that in turn showed us the cause and reason he was engaged in certain activities that would eventually jail the ordinary man in the street. However, when we checked with the customs and excise we were forbidden to name the man, and there has been no case in the papers relating to it, so it appears to be secret and one of those things that this government are good at, and that goes for the police who we mentioned at the beginning who were investigating several customs men in our first article.

NO CUSTOMS OFFICERS HAVE BEEN NAMED OR CHARGED -- THE INVESTIGATION AND DETAILS HAVE JUST VANISHED?

' Customs VAT man in spanking tax dodge '

TAX INSPECTOR JAILED OVER BLACKMAIL -- PHILIP McHUGH was found guilty at St Albans Crown Court of Blackmail. It was said that he made a demand for £1million from TESCO and threatened to bomb the store if the ransom was not paid.  The 52 year-old also threatened to contaminate products at the store in Lancashire.  It was stated that he was addicted to gambling online and had debts of £37,000.

Yes you're not seeing double, it is the same taxman involved in the two cases. Having now linked these cases together it certainly needs questions asked at the HMRC in Blackburn, and answers?   - What activities did they look into regarding the spanking situation and how is it they missed the gambling debts and his eventual prison sentence for blackmail.

FORMER CUSTOMS MAN TELLS OUR PRIVATE DETECTIVE THAT THEY GET TIP-OFFS WHEN TROUBLE SURROUNDS THEIR DEPARTMENT OR AN INVESTIGATION IS ABOUT TO BE MADE --' PAPERS GO MISSING AND OTHERS ARE SHREDDED - WE ARE GOOD AT THAT - He said.

' HMRC Investigator in fraud '

JONATHAN MIDDUP an Investigator with the Inland Revenue was found guilty of fraudulently obtaining £16,000 in benefits for his wife -- he aided and abetted her scam to swindle for income support, housing benefit and council tax in Hucknell.  The deception was calculated and the plan to let his wife sign on as a single parent was carried through.  Nottingham Magistrates Court found Middup guilty of dishonesty, the Judge said ' It is appalling that this man was a criminal investigator for the HMRC '  He was given an 8 weeks suspended prison sentence suspended for 12 months.

' Those H & M Revenue & Customs blunders '

HER MAJESTY'S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS, yes, not so squeaky clean either as we show you here.

Retired David Betson had regular problems with tax codes etc, and what was annoying was that this kind of thing continued over and over again despite contacting them he said. He made a formal complaint, but guess what? he hasn't had a reply or anything from them.

George Stewart tried to get two tax rebates owing to him after tax was taken incorrectly from his saving accounts. This matter went on for 18 months, yet he was promised by someone at the centre that he would receive a response by September 2010, it never happened?

Stan Bradburn was sent a bill by the tax people for £3,200 which stated he had been underpaying for two years. After much effort and running around for faceless tax collectors, he discovered it was all based on incorrect tax codes. The Tax people had confused information due to three sources of income, but couldn't get the matter right with all the expensive expertise they claim they have. A spokesperson said they were looking into it as a matter of urgency?  --- not a lot of hope there eh?

HMRC GO AFTER INNOCENT PEOPLE AND THREATEN THEM --- Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs staff are continually getting away with the crime of threats and harassment and they get away with it without any fear of prosecution, and why is that?  they have immunity provided by the police and Crown, they cannot be touched. They are above the law. The new report says they threaten to take possessions over tax demands to those who already agreed to pay off bills, and they do it to people who owe nothing. Any errors they make are not errors? simply just something that happened -- just like one un-named civil servant who wrongly assessed some claimant even though he had other information to the contrary, had their claim denied and was not held accountable when the mistake showed up. The HMRC would not investigate him, suspend him or hold an inquiry into his behaviour because he was protected.  The report highlighted the fact that these threats flouted the Office of fair trading rules -- guidance to debt collectors --- yet amazingly the HMRC is not bound by the rules because it is a government department?  This situation revealed itself when Mrs Perry was hounded by the HMRC debt office in Glasgow and then by another debt office in Croydon.  The Office of Fair Trading was contacted and that's when it was revealed that they were above the law and could not be investigated by the Ombudsman or Office of Fair Trade, even the police are tied when attempting to investigate, they are immune from prosecution.

TAXMAN FAILS TO WIN CASE AGAINST MAN WHO WINS APPEAL -- Tax Inspector Hayden Hart thought he would nab his man easily, and said he was attacked by him whilst doing his duty. Initially in a lower court the taxman got his way, but Paul Clarke took his case to the Appeal court and the judge overturned the decision saying the facts were exaggerated, and it could not be proved by just a few marks that Clarke did it. Lawyers for the taxman tried to change the charge, but the judge would not let them.

IN RELATION TO HMRC THREATS one MP said ' The tone of these demands were deeply offensive and threatening ' ' In some cases they are sent to the wrong people saying they will seize possessions and take property if the bill isn't paid'  The MP said this was disgraceful. especially as it was a public body paid for by taxpayers.

' HMRC Tax Officer is Jailed '

SENIOR TAX OFFICER MARGARET SCARGILL was found guilty at Leeds Crown Court of taking more than £10,000 in false tax payments.  It was discovered that she had perpetrated the crime over five years under the noses of colleagues at the Dewsbury HMRC Office.  She opened two accounts in order to place the stolen money. It was amazing to learn that she had acquired a senior position during those years, and all the while fiddled and falsified documents.  She was jailed for six months.

' The Taxman in blunder refuse to accept the facts '

THE INLAND REVENUE in Preston do make mistakes, do enter false information, deny it and carry onto the next occasion -- Miss Tonie Francis was dead according to their records, another gaff, but when she actually phoned to correct this, the operator said she could not enter into any dialogue because she was dead?  The mother of two from Northamptonshire had her benefits frozen because of it as they had classified her as ' deceased ' even an officer from a department said he could not enter into any conversation?  Amazingly, the civil servant on the phone actually asked the deceased!! for a copy of her will and details of next of kin. She has since consulted with a solicitor and intends to sue the tax authorities who claimed this was a 'computer error '

THE INLAND REVENUE THREATEN WIDOW --- Indeed, A case has come to light that clearly shows the HMRC   have shown their true colours again. A 95 year old widow was threatened with bailiffs over a bill that was actually wrong and their mistake. This comes at a time when a Commons Committee hauled them in over the chaos and complaints by the public.  Widow Beryl Frew was told in a letter she would have her possessions seized for non payment. It was only after outside forces went over their bills that it was found that she had actually paid £380 more, and that was what they owed her. This example clearly shows how insensitive these people are and that they are quite unconcerned about using their power to crush anyone, even when they get it wrong.

' VAT Taxman Jailed '

RICHARD THORNTON, a VAT Inspector with the HMRC was sent to prison for two and a half years for swindling taxpayers out of £32,000 at Mold Crown Court.  It was heard that the tax Inspector set up a fake company with fictional directors to help him make a bogus sale and claim back on VAT.  He was convicted of fraudulent evasion.

IT HAS BEEN REVEALED THAT MISTAKES ARE NOT ALWAYS MISTAKES as claimed by the tax departments of the UK Government.  An internal document showed that Officers often deliberately try to trap and cheat claimants in order to reduce any tax benefits or rebate. It showed the staff had a system geared up to performance targets within offices.  Often they knew that a wrong demand had gone out, but ignored this in case 'the fishing trip' netted results.  One trick was to get people to rewrite claims and compare them word for word, and if it didn't do that, they then had another worker lean on that taxpayer with more requests for information in the full knowledge that they were running a subtle intimidation that the claimant could do nothing about.

' Dishonest Tax fraud Officer on the fiddle '

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AT THE REVENUE AND CUSTOMS PROSECUTION OFFICE DAVID PARTRIDGE, found himself being prosecuted instead. He was found guilty of gross misconduct and dismissed for awarding his wife a lucrative contract said to be around £100,000 of taxpayers money.  He was found guilty acting dishonestly over a period of eighteen months.

TAX OFFICE COVER-UP OVER BOTCHED ASSESSMENT FORM -- Why the tax office lie, cheat and deceive is a mystery, but they do; even over the little things.  The North Country Inland Revenue Tax Dept made what they call an 'error' yet kept the identity of the civil servant a secret and would not have him identified when requested by the taxpayer/claimant.  The claimant had given in forms that showed the exact circumstances, yet, the civil servant wrongly filled in another knowing that he'd received other paperwork that could not be right and its status wrongly listed.  But this officer continued with the incorrect assessment which affected the claimant badly and delayed him, thus causing stress and further trouble. 

HMRC TAX DEPARTMENT THREATENS LEGAL ACTION in letter to 69yr old Widow in regard to bill that was incorrectly assigned to her when they knew it was the responsibility of a former employer. Yet they demanded that she paid £217 a month to clear the £2,607 bill of which she was first told to pay within one month.  The pensioner already lived on a strict budget and found coping very difficult.  A watchdog contacted the office, and in seconds the mistake was seen; but only because someone in the newspapers intervened. It is quite clear that they would have hounded her and taken the money --- and never looked to see if it was correct, accusations levelled at the tax staff of bullying and threats is well founded, and someone likened them to back street money-lenders who put the frighteners on debtors --- this describes the Inland Revenue exactly.

CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST HMRC PERSONNEL ARE FLAWED -- Investigations are carried out by the Police Complaints, and as we already know they are notoriously a whitewash in the case of suspected police wrongdoing, so it doesn't carry much weight when one considers they handle criminal charges against tax staff at the Inland Revenue Departments. Our Investigator Richard asked them for details of how many tax people they were currently investigating, how many had been to court and how many had been jailed as a consequence of criminal acts, but they refused to give any information.

TAX INSPECTOR AND TWO STAFF RESIGN over harassment charges by pensioner. A leaked internal memo from one department to another says that 'there is no reason to take the matter of harassment claims against the dept any further as resignations have been accepted and the pensioner has received a full apology for the distress.'  We have learnt since that the tax premises in Bristol have closed and staff moved to other areas??

HMRC face angry Treasury Select Committee over only 40 telephone calls in every 100 are answered by the tax office staff, whereas their published target said only four calls in every hundred can be allowed, which shows what this department is up to. HMRC Chief Executive Dame Leslie Strathie did not seem all that bothered about the horrendous record and glibly said ' Let me accept that as a challenge? '  A thirty minute call held at their office can cost a staggering £12.30 to the worried caller, one pensioner spent £54.12 as he waited two hours on the line. HMRC Managers are to be hauled in over the chaos the dept is causing to the taxpayers.

PAUL FOOT REVEALS LOCAL TAX OFFICE DILEMMA -- Back in the 80's the Investigative Journalist revealed that tax blunders were rife due to the hire of students in many offices, hired to fill the gaps needed of staff away or just not able to cope with workloads. But this led to wrongly assessed people and more outrageously the purge on innocents that became like a game to many of the civil servants that had a free hand to choose what they liked. No proper checks were being made of their work when in fact, they were not properly trained and many could not understand what the system was about anyway. One senior tax officer admitted it was going on, but he did not have the time or resources to put all of it right, ' some things just had to be pushed through right or wrong, and you just hoped the outcome would not seriously get anyone into trouble.' he said.

' Tax Office Cover-Up over Vodafone Interest Mystery '

The more this department try to bury the issue of the unpaid interest involving Vodafone, the more the questions are asked -- without any satisfactory answers?     It became such an issue that the Commons Treasury Select Committee called in top civil servant, Dave Hartnett  who by some strange moves -- became a top official at H.M. Revenue and Customs.   Time and time again Tory backbencher Jesse Norman, pressed him about the ' smelly ' deal that had allowed Vodafone to settle its tax debt which had been overdue and incurring interest, but Hartnett become more unconvincing as he threw in ' Government errors' as a cover-up, and we've heard about these 'errors' that civil servants cling to as a way out to get the public off their backs?    As to the matter of the unpaid interest? well according to law it is a criminal offence not to pay interest on tax owing....but the HMRC is above the law and makes its own rules as we have shown....they have Crown Immunity!!

' Rogue Tax Inspector becomes Whistleblower on HMRC '

PETER CLARE, a former Tax Fraud Investigator with the HMRC for 22 years has appeared on the web offering two CD's of interviews in which he claims to expose the secret and nasty tricks that the civil service staff use on the public in their game of cat and mouse -- which they perversely enjoy!  He cites disgruntled employees who could and did fit up people and fabricate evidence against them.

' USELESS INCOMPETENT HMRC '  --- Mr K. Bland of Isleworth reminds us yet again of the overall incompetence of the Tax civil servants throughout the UK.  He tells us of a demand sent to a client of his telling him to pay a penalty of £100 for non-completion of a tax return.  It wouldn't be so bad if this could be considered a fair mistake? but it wasn't, the man had died two and a half years earlier!!  and what makes matters worse, some idiot member of staff addressed it to ' Mr. P. Warbrick Deceased '  Mr Bland and many others wonder what kind of civil servants are they recruiting and the obvious answer is -- not up to the job and clearly incompetent.

' Tax Inspector is suspended and Arrested '

PRIDE OF THE HMRC MICHAEL ALLCOCK found himself suspended and then arrested when bosses turned against him. Amid rumours of bribery, that never went away, the seemingly successful tax investigator was being accused of 'improper collusion with the Serious Fraud Office '  He was told there was a possibility of charges being brought against him under the 1906 Corruption Act. -- Unfortunately we cannot report any more of this peculiar case because it suddenly went underground and silence followed???

Research has revealed that Michael Allcock used bullying in his techniques, and was not a pleasant man?  so I guess many ordinary citizens hope that he was prosecuted or even jailed. ( he was jailed see later article)

'Tax Officer in Theft and Burglary '

TAX OFFICER STEVEN SMITH of the Kingswinford area was found guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court of theft and burglary  --- he stole a key to the property of a woman and took £25 from her purse  --- he was given a community order and court costs of £750, plus an oreder to pay back the money he stole.

CALLOUS ACTS BY HMRC -- Mrs. Brenda Williams tells us a woeful tale of civil servant aggressive behaviour, when she wrote to query a demand sent to her which turned out to be completely wrong and based on the wrong tax assessment and numbers.  She was told by a member of staff ' We don't really care what you think of us, if we say you must pay this then you will or we shall take your house and anything else, we have the power to do so '  After several other attempts and on receiving a notice that a debt agency was now handling the claim she approached a watchdog in her local area for help.  It was just a matter of days and they found that the tax office had made error after error. The ombudsman was sent copies of letters and the HMRC backed off and claimed that somehow she had been given the wrong data.  They never apologised for this harassment and got away with it -- no civil servant was brought up on charges nor identified.

' Tax Officer Accused of Theft '

HMRC's JOHN MEAKIN faced theft charges brought by a member of the public and claimant.  It is said that The Tax Credit Claimant Compliance Officer abused his position and withheld documents in order to disable a valid claim and cause maximum distress.  Of these charges of wilful misconduct, the HMRC said they were looking into the matter and needed time to respond?  Beyond that, they wouldn't comment!

HMRC TAX BLUNDERS TO BE WRITTEN OFF --- A report has shown that billions of pounds are to be written off involving unpaid bills that go back several years.  They claim it is a result of the PAYE system going back to 2004. The HMRC are to send out letters to those who overpaid in 2003 to 2004, those who owe will be required to pay £600 each on an average. It says the HMRC has been in a shocking mess for a number of years, but they deny this and do not accept the criticism?    Yes, that is them and business as usual.

' Tax Boss denies Lying '

In the GOLDMAN incident, HMRC boss, Dave Hartnett denied telling lies at a Parliamentary Committee when he was repeatedly accused of lying over a settlement with the U.S. bank Goldman Sachs, which cost the taxpayer almost £8 million. He claimed he had not overseen HMRC's dealings with Goldman. But a leaked confidential document shows that Hartnett had been involved in settling a dispute over taxes with Goldman Sachs. He later admitted to assisting colleagues to deal with the difficult issue??

THE TAX BOSS HAS BEEN OPENLY ACCUSED OF COSYING UP TO CORPORATE TAX AVOIDERS WHILE PENALISING ORDINARY TAXPAYERS.

' Swindling Tax Officer in elaborate fraud '

HMRC TAX OFFICER ELIZABETH GIBSON deceived colleagues and others making claims totalling £58,042 using dead people's identities and non-existent relatives.  To support the fraud she acted as agent in respect of the claims and deposited cash into her own bank account.  It is claimed by the HMRC that they were unaware of this? -- but seven years is hard to swallow despite this feeble claim by the tax authorities.

' H M R C hide errors to stop taxpayer appeals '

Evidence has been revealed that indicates that HMRC is suppressing and concealing mistakes and information from the taxpayers. An internal memo leaked events surrounding secret decision making when dealing with appeals, and shows they are denying leniency in matters of unpaid income tax. It shows that the tax officers chose to conceal the details and went on to demand thousands of pounds despite being able to approach claims fairly.  The discovery of HMRC refusing to accept official employers' forms in appeals cases is widespread in different districts. It showed that many claimants would not get a fair hearing at their appeals.  The memo shows the true arrogance and incompetence at the HMRC.  Experts say the revelations cast grave doubt on the decisions made against more than 100,000 taxpayer's appeals which have been rejected this year alone.

' Tax Officer's Fraud and Double-Dealing '

Assistant Tax Commissioner NICK PETROLOUS was accused of dishonestly benefiting from rulings he gave as 'gamekeeper and Poacher ' in his intentions to deceive and play both sides.  He is said to have received profits from a company to which he ' looked after favourably '.  In court it was heard that he used his position as Senior Tax Officer to obtain information on tax schemes that exploited ' loopholes'  -- he then passed on that information to former associate Richard Morgan who turned it to both their advantages financially.

' Mastermind Taxman behind £4million Scam '

SENIOR REVENUES OFFICER BRENDAN MURPHY of the HMRC appeared before a special sitting of the Circuit Court at Ennis.  The Criminal Assets Bureau's Detective Inspector told the court that he did not believe the story Mr.Murphy gave in evidence and that he masterminded the £4million VAT fraud.  Mr. Murphy pleaded guilty to conspiracy with others to defraud the Revenue Commissioners.

THREATS BY HMRC ARE OUTRAGEOUS SAY TREASURY COMMITTEE --Deputy Chairman of The Treasury Committee, Labour MP George Mudie said ' I think it's disgraceful to treat elderly people and taxpayers in this manner and it offers no respect or concern for the people who pay their wages.'   The Treasury Committee have urged Ministers to make 'Menacing Letters' sent out by the Tax Office illegal in the light of new threatening demands being sent out by the HMRC. Ministers have been asked to urgently consider drafting new regulations to curb the abuse of power the Inland Revenue have at the present time.

TAX OFFICER IN COMPLICITY TO WITHHOLD BENEFITS is now known, PAUL GERRARD has been named in a case as we  cover the issue of penalties the HMRC can inflict at their own discretion on people who 'they believe have cheated the system let alone made a mistake' --- yet by the same token if they make the mistake on the taxpayer they pay nothing, no compensation and nor can they be penalised.  But we are here to remedy that by naming them and we have our first -- Paul Gerrard a taxman in Preston, who is using bullying tactics and more. The case concerns a struggling bookseller in Hampshire whose receipts don't buy the bacon and a little support from tax credits keeps the wolf from the door.  In collusion with John Meakin who arbitrarily axed the credits, he too on the 17th of October acted immediately to close the claim, yet the pair were from two different offices, Meakin at Bristol and Gerrard at Preston, yet they both acted swiftly to end the credits, but Gerrard was prepared to do more. The claimant never received any notice, and Meakin stole his documents. On the 3rd Nov he discovered when ringing Bristol on the letter from Meakin asking for documents, that they'd upped and went leaving a recorded message saying contact Birmingham. The claimant contacted Birmingham and was told his claim had been terminated. Mr Somal told him to appeal and send the appeal immediately. On the 9th Nov, the claimant had to attend an interrogation at Cosham over ID caused by Preston!!  He was successful. On the 10th his appeal had succeeded and was confirmed by Mr.Somal in Birmingham. However, still by the 15th things were not right and Mr.Somal could not understand the delay, Preston were ignoring the decision.  On the 17th Nov two days later and 7 days since the appeal decision, he wrote and said the claim was being shut down,  and on the 21st he confirms that it is his final decision despite being overturned at the appeal. In revenge or an act of vendetta he tells Glasgow to turn the screw and go after the claimant and they issue an overpayment demand. The claimant sent a complaint to Preston on the 13th mentioning the appeal, but they do not reply until the 21st - the same day as Gerrard acts against the claimant, which is more than a coincidence.  The Complaints write to say they will sit out things until the 9th of December, taking nearly a month? yet when Gerrard and Meakin acted together it was done within a day...what does that tell you?   Corruption, nothing less and collusion.

DATA BREACH BY HMRC is down to PAUL GERRARD we can reveal. It appears in a report that 50,000 people suffered as a result of his incompetence and staff at Preston.  Gerrard is the Director of Tax Credits in Preston and Deputy Head of Enforcement no less, and we can also say that it is Gerrard who pushed for compliance investigations in all departments of tax at a meeting with bosses.   It appears after waiting several days to see if things would conveniently blow over, that he had to apologise for the Data Breach which resulted in thousands of people being compromised in having their personal details read by others. Getting details on his personal life is well guarded as we tried to unearth some background on him only just to get as far as his relatives (Denise, Anthony and Winifred). The strange thing here is that he was not called on to resign, yet another officer did, Paul Gray, who caused the data breach allowing details of 25million Child Benefit claimants to go missing on two unsecured disks.  Legal wise -- The law says it is an offence to breach the data protection act -- The Information Commissioner's Office was recently granted powers to fine firms and bodies £500,000 for serious or negligent breaches of the Data Protection Act, but no action was taken against Gerrard, so we can take it that he has pals in the Government prepared to get rid of any occurrences and have him remain immune from prosecution??

We are staying on Paul Gerrard as there is something else not right about this tax officer, and we are following up a lead that has some nasty background to it. At the very least this man is guilty of misconduct and should be dismissed by a Disciplinary Tribunal.

A Report to Parliament revealed that 116 HMRC staff have been sacked for 'undisclosed reasons? ' among a total of 369 who have been disciplined.  However it goes onto reveal a more true picture when it says 294 members of staff were sacked in relation to performance issues?  Tory MP Priti Patel asked how many staff were sacked for errors?   The Department replied -- 'It does not record 'error' as a reason for dismissal? As one can see by this report, it doesn't actually reveal anything other than the tax office maintain their secrecy and will not be transparent about anything. It's interesting to note that they led with a claim of 100 instead of the true figure 369.

' Inland Revenue telling 'Official' lies over figures '

We can now say categorically that the HMRC lie when publishing or divulging figures on sackings like the above. A former employee who left because they didn't like the way some senior staff dealt with people told us that these official figures were massaged to look less than what they are. He said some people are urged to leave very strongly and when they do, they are not in the official figures.  ' You are taken to one side if you disagree with the aims or work ethics of the Department and you are in no way allowed to comment or say anything against a fellow employee. They are very tight knit and it gets around if you have said the wrong thing or are outspoken. Head of operations or a manager will suggest this is not the job for you and before you know it they are putting pressure on you to leave before they push you out or take a 'sanction' -- this literally means doing a report on you that is not favourable and adding opinions and making references to your unsuitability, and if that doesn't work they make something up that makes working there nearly impossible.  One chap I knew worked to the letter of the department protocol but strayed when he offended a senior member of the Investigative Branch by likening him to Hitler as a joke. But in a matter of weeks he was out, the guy in question with colleagues had embarked on making his life a misery, and after a while he just said he'd had enough and left. the others claimed that he would have been sacked, but I doubt that because he was a pleasant sort; not like many others, who actually cared about the public.

' Former taxman is jailed for fraud '

HMRC Employee Errol Mark was jailed for four years after defrauding his bosses the Inland Revenue out of £185,000. The former tax officer arranged false tax repayments over a period of four years before being caught out.  he created fictitious records to generate repayments on tax actually never paid, and covered his tracks by using false passwords and created identities.  it was said in court that his scheme was hard to detect and his skill to deceive had been remarkable in that it lasted four years.

TAXMAN DELIBERATELY DELAYS CLAIM -- We have come across a case where the Preston Office of the HMRC have deliberately gone out of their way to delay a process on a claim. We can confirm that they knew about an order to reinstate a claim issued from Birmingham after a successful appeal by the claimant. An officer told us that he was amazed to find that the claim had not been rectified by Preston as he'd already issued a notice on the computer, which they would have seen, but did nothing about it. We have learned that the order had been put out the same day of the appeal and the staff in Preston would have had it several days. no other conclusion can be arrived at other than a deliberate attempt to interfere with the claim. We also have confirmation that the Birmingham Tax Office deliberately do not answer back on telephone calls, and one case in particular said they left a message every day for more than a week and no one bothered to get back to them?

' HMRC break Data Protection Laws '

THOUSANDS OF TAX CREDIT DETAILS WERE SENT OUT TO THE WRONG PEOPLE -- The HMRC said they were sent out ' Accidentally' but we can tell you they do not 'accidentally' do anything, quite the contrary in fact.  A Spokesperson used that tired phrase -- 'error' to describe the appalling Data Protection Breach, which is for mere mortals against the law, but not for the HMRC of course as they are above it.  A Greater Manchester recipient got her neighbour's details of earnings, bank account records and more -- which could have been used in ID theft, a charge they level at many taxpayers!!  Several thousand people received other taxpayers personal and private details because of the HMRC -- and we are told that all of this originated in the Preston Tax Offices.

SEE THE PAUL GERRARD ARTICLE ABOVE and why he was not ordered to resign?

TAX AUTHORITIES CONCEAL MISTAKES ---  Workers at several tax districts throughout the UK, London, Newcastle, Preston, Bristol and Birmingham have had their lies exposed in a 'leaked Memo' sent to the Mail Newspaper.  It showed that 1241,000 people had applied for the A19 concession, and as many as 5.7million people had paid the wrong tax.  It showed that when the taxmen realised they'd made mistakes they levied these on the taxpayer.  It also revealed that they fail to act on information requested and sent by claimants, or simply ignore it, thus causing stress and great problems for the individual.  The HMRC make the hollow claim of 'sorting things out quickly ', but we have evidence that this is a complete fabrication of the truth.

On one rejected appeal -- it said Mr. Williams had queried his bill as he knew it was incorrect. However, the HMRC mistakenly in posting a reply - enclosed an internal memo not meant for him nor to be seen by him -- from a technical advisor to a tax officer telling him a very different story. revealing the deceit by HMRC managers.

' Insider Dealing Taxman is jailed '

BIRMINGHAM TAX INSPECTOR LAWRENCE CHAMPION of Harborne Park Road, Harborne was discovered to have abused and used his position to make a profit of £15,000 with insider dealing. The money was said to have supported his children's school fees. He worked at the Solihull Tax Office. He was sent to Prison for six months.

HMRC SUSPECTED OF CORRUPTION OVER CORPORATE DEALS -- The National Audit Office is to go up against the might of the Inland Revenue to investigate the 'cosy deals' with Vodafone and Goldman Sachs. It says outsiders will be brought in to scrutinize goings on at the HMRC, as they revealed they need tax experts to uncover impropriety and underhand deals struck behind closed doors.

' Former Tax Inspector 'Untruthful ' about assets '

A HIGH COURT JUDGE WARNED TAXMAN MR SHAY DALY that he could face jail if he did not disclose the full extent of his assets to the court within two weeks.  The Judge said that his answers and disclosure presented was 'untruthful' in the case of ACC Bank and Inland Revenue seeking to get back £4.5million.

UK REVENUE AND CUSTOMS ASSIST FRAUD OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUPER RICH -- Martin Deighton in a letter explained how the HMRC were making it easy for the yacht owning rich to grab half of their tax money back in '  reclaimed expenses called business amenities set up as tax losses.  The Tax collected is around £160 billion, but £80billion is paid back. He mentions ' Carousel Fraud' which enables 'criminal elements' to illegitimately reclaim around £200 billion in VAT, all negotiated and done with ease and expertise. he says the cost of administering the reclaimed tax and paying it back is staggering and not something they are willing to discuss.

THE HMRC COMPLAINTS THAT ISN'T --- The farcical nature of the HMRC is to put up a Government website that tells you how to complain, but not exactly where? it can and does tell you to leave the matter in the hands of the department you wish to complain about? which is like letting the enemy decide your fate. Anyone can see at first glance that this is not suitable at all and is a scandal. It mentions getting small payments if the the tax office caused you worry, handled your complaint badly, or took too long -- but try and get this? and in more cases than not you will be told they don't pay costs or compensation by many staff. They and this goes for most of them, do not even know what the rules are or the pages on the HMRC.Gov site. They also have contact us, but not by e-mail, one click on that meets a dead end, and a flimsy explanation saying how much they'd like to be able to deal with e-mails!! ---Government Joke -- and in pretty bad taste.  All in all, the complaints procedures are not worth a bean and anyone going on the site are wasting their time.

£100 MILLION POUNDS SPENT ON STAFF TRAINING IS A WASTE SAY WATCHDOG ON HMRC SPENDING -- The latest report condemns the huge spending bill of £100million on one year training courses for staff. The National Audit Office said these courses for the 2010/2011 period had revealed a poor benefit in terms of money spent. It was hard to conjure up 38percent of staff who claimed they'd learnt something. One in five said they didn't really like working at HMRC and wanted to leave?  The Audit Office said the scheme lacked strategy hence the poor figures and waste.  The tax organisation had taken on 730,000 courses and spent on average £1,419 on each member of staff in order to improve the system. It would be fair to say this was a failure as staff we have featured here do not possess any skills in handling taxpayers properly and with decency Mr.Gerrard!!

INLAND REVENUE AND MONEY-LAUNDERING CONNECTION --- Concerns are growing over how the HMRC are actively helping crime bosses and syndicates, prostitution rings and other illegal operations to launder millions of pounds every year.  Andrew Alderson in his article of 7th Dec 2011 points out criminals are using the HMRC to set up and take over illegal companies, bogus claims and predictions of company profits so that they can offload ' dirty money' from crime and then wait for a rebate - refund from overpaid tax -- which turns crime cash into clean currency!!

DIRTY LITTLE 'FISHING TRIPS' BY HMRC -- Devious, underhand, corrupt, yes, possibly all three -- yes, it's the HMRC Business Records Check -- When Inspectors randomly and otherwise pick out names for their ' inquisition practices' -- they merely just mail a businessman, company or individual and tell them they wish to call on them.  One accountant says - ' These checks are not for the client's benefit at all, it's just an excuse for a fishing trip expedition in the hope they get a reason to claim extra tax -- and as a warning he said -- 'every answer can be twisted and perverted (just like the inspectors themselves) so say very little and reply cautiously '

' Suspended sentence for Former Tax Inspector '

TAX INSPECTOR RICHARD GRIFFITHS from Bridgend was sentenced to a 10 month suspended prison sentence after he pleaded guilty in court. He was convicted of running an illegal money-lending operation that had 54 customers. The report said that he refused to co-operate with police over identifying his victims --- he also was said to have targeted the most vulnerable people in society.

TAX OFFICE AT PRESTON SUPPRESSES INFO ON REDUCTION OF PUBLIC SERVICES -- Preston Tax Office came in for criticism by the Union PCS over its high handed tactics in reducing opening hours to the public, which would seriously hinder the tax payer. The union said that the HMRC did not consider anyone else in its move to force people to go online whether they liked it or not.  They did liaise with the union on the matter, and that this was typical 'running roughshod' over anyone else.

HMRC WRITE OFF £27BILLION BUT ONLY FOR THE CORPORATIONS -- The Inland Revenue could not prevent a report showing them having to write off 27.4 billion pounds in five years to corporations and those who could afford to challenge them. Ordinary taxpayers were treated entirely differently and of course ended up footing most of the revenue the tax man wanted.  Letting off the big firms is not new in tax circles, the denials from them have always been seen as lies and mistruths.  Getting any information about the Inland Revenue is difficult and often blocked by the powers that be.

FORMER TAXMAN WARNS HMRC AGAINST THE SUSPICION OF CORRUPTION -- Claude Currey of Portishead, Somerset, a taxman for 42 years both at the Customs and Excise and re-developed Revenue and Customs HMRC, warns the staff and Inspectors about perks and hospitality new taxmen take up raising the suspicion of corruption. He tells how it was thought risky accepting a cup of tea or coffee at most and that management stressed they were never to accept hospitality in case it was seen as accepting bribes. He says today's standards have slipped in the HMRC which is very sad by those in the organisation ready to accept big bonuses and hospitality packages so readily.

LIES AND MORE DAMN LIES AT HMRC - It appears they tell all investigators to say the same thing in parrot fashion, -- 'We want the money to go to the right people who need the help' --- so this validates their extreme campaigns to pick on anyone, because who is going to check to see if that's what they are doing? good question, but you will not get an answer that satisfies.  Recent news tells us that two out of three big firms win over VAT payments, and the taxman has been accused of serving up fines in order to confuse while penalties relating to tax disputes have been overturned on mass.  The report says that thousands of taxpayers have been unjustly penalised and where not equipped to challenge the HMRC decisions while big business had a field day getting cash back.  25,633 tax decisions were found to be incorrect. Their arrogance even stretches to them saying that even if a decision 'appears' wrong it doesn't mean that the figure was wrongly levied?

' HMRC Taxman fiddles on benefits '

TAXMAN DANIEL BELL of West Lothian, an HMRC Tax officer was found guilty of a £6,000 fraud.  In court he pleaded guilty to falsely claiming £3,413 in benefits during 2007 to 2010, and falsely claiming travel expenses amounting to £2,907 in 2009.

THE HMRC IN 2008 ADMIT TO HAVING DISMISSED 610 MEMBERS OF STAFF from various tax departments over a three year period and 192 members of staff disciplined in 2007 to 2008. This report was followed by insider claims that the figures were massaged in order to lessen the impact.

HMRC TOLD TO PAY COMPENSATION OF £100,000 -- Judy Clements of the Adjudicator's Office stated that complaints have risen sharply in just one year over the way the HMRC sought repayments even though they'd already been paid.  She accused them of targeting pensioners and vulnerable groups of people having to pay unexpected tax bills, which they didn't understand. She said most of the complaints came over the way they are dealing with tax credits and as a result of failures by tax staff who fail to act on information it had been supplied.

THE HMRC AND THE CARELESS MISTAKES LEAD TO SUSPENSION OF A PENALTY -- Phil Benwick a Director of Tax investigation admitted in a case that the tone of the correspondence sent by the HMRC was not appropriate for an unrepresented taxpayer according to the guidelines because there was no dialogue about the error and what category it fell in. he accepted it was a mistake on behalf of the department.

'Former HMRC Taxman in £190,000 Fraud '

TAXMAN CRAIG GORDON went on trial in Edinburgh for defrauding his bosses of £190,000.  It was stated that he committed the offence while being employed at the HMRC Lothian 2 Area in Broomfield Drive, and formed a fraudulent scheme to obtain money.  It was said he set up a business called Capital Tax Services, opened a bank account under a false name and created false income tax repayment claims, and then as a tax officer, processed them for repayment. Interestingly, he has claimed that other people did it in his defence!

HMRC INVOLVED IN MAKING NUISANCE CALLS --- Nuisance telephone calls are an offence according to the Telecommunications Watchdog, yet the HMRC have been making around 300,000 of these, and getting away with it due to their immunity.  The menacing silent phone calls were instigated by their automated dialling systems which chase late payments it is said, However, Lib Dem MP John Hemming said the practice must end and warned the HMRC it risked fines of up to £50,000 each one. The Ofcom Regulator said ' It is quite clear that the taxman is responsible for persistent nuisance calls'  One other MP remarked that the HMRC should be fined £15billion -- the culmination of 300,000 calls, and that they should appear in a public court charged and found guilty.

SUCCESSFUL CHALLENGES ON HMRC HAVE QUADRUPLED -- Due to major errors by the HM Revenue and Customs, challenges that overturned their judgements have soared by four times.  446 complaints handled by the Adjudicator were upheld in 2009, and in 2008 out of 229 cases -- 108 claims were successful.

THE HMRC AND THE PHONE LINE SCAM --- The Money Mail reports of the HMRC phone line that intentionally keeps people on hold for up to 30 minutes, and then redirects the person to their Internet site before cutting them off.  The Mail also claims that they have revealed cover-ups, evidence of tax errors and ineptitude such as: Failure to respond to letters and phone calls --- Giving out incorrect and misleading advice to pensioners  --- Sending out aggressive and threatening demands -- Showing a lack of consistency in dealing with appeals. It also points out that accountability is zero, as we said at the beginning of this list --- there is no Cabinet Minister specifically dealing with the HMRC, and this comes as a stark fact and worry when you find out that all other departments are responsible to a Minister in The House Of Commons.

'Two and a half years jail for thieving tax man '

HMRC TAX OFFICER GEOFFREY ELEY of Redditch was in charge of collecting overdue tax payments from the taxpayer. He was authorised to collect payments from businesses and individuals; collecting payments from as little as £1,000 right up to £28,904 from fifteen taxpayers, which he later pocketed. It was estimated that he had stolen around £84,950 according to the Inland Revenue. He pleaded guilty at his trial and was sent to jail.

' The HMRC Bribes Scandal '

THE JAILING OF MICHAEL ALLCOCK who worked at the Inland Revenue Special Office No 2 for accepting cash bribes to support a lavish lifestyle has initiated calls for another corruption investigation into the HMRC; especially in the light that Allcock was one of their top investigators. Members of the Commons Public Accounts Committee are being pushed by another former taxman John Gwyer, to look into matters more closely when they question Inland Revenue Chairman Montagu about Allcock and the freedom he had to move around in that allowed bribery to take place.

Note: Allcock is being sued by the HMRC for the return of £150,000 he took in bribes.

'H.M.R.C. Lose tax evasion case against Rednapp '

THE TAX OFFICE PURSUED HARRY REDNAPP FOR 6 YEARS ACCUSING HIM OF CORRUPTION AND TAX EVASION, the case cost the taxpayer £8million and was backed by the CPS. In court barristers for the HMRC accused him of criminal activities and secretly hiding money in off-shore accounts. Mr.Rednapp told of the sheer pressures inflicted on him by the tax people, making his life a hell. The spokesman for the Inland Revenue acted unconcerned and just said they did what was necessary to stem tax offenders. It is time, and we hope that Mr.Rednapp sues the Inland Revenue for multi thousands for bringing criminal charges against him. £5.5 million would be a fair price for the HMRC to pay in this case.

ANOTHER CASE OF VICTIMISATION BY HMRC -- The VAT Inspectors swooped on Richard Williams of Leeds who has a scaled replica of a U-Boat. They arrested him as part of a fraud probe. His German type U-Boat was modelled and converted from a narrow boat to be a floating museum. A Spokesman -- Mike O'Grady of the HMRC was vague as usual as he pattered out the 'party line' saying the 64 year old was on their list and investigation into VAT fraud called Operation Cloudcastle looking into the laundering of criminal profits?? no doubt they think Mr.Williams the 'Mr.Big'. Maybe their probe into his U-Boat my unearth some nasty German Troops with treasures hidden from the war!!

TAX BOSS DAVID HARTNETT IS REPLACED BY  CIVIL SERVANT OF CHAOTIC BORDER AGENCY FARCE -- The press are quick to point out the reward for failure is another top job for LIN HOMER who took around a £1million in salary for the border agency position.  Despite scandals surrounding her last post she has now been made chief executive of the Inland Revenue. 

' Tribunal claim reveals deceit and malpractice in HMRC '

TAX INSPECTOR ALAN CURTIS appeared as a whistleblower when he stood before a tribunal explaining why he was unfairly ruled out over pay. He stated that he had been examining other officers work and taking details of how they fiddled tax details.  He said they unfairly charged traders too much tax to make it look as if they had successfully solved cases and in turn, deserved performance related pay bonuses. He said hundreds of thousands of pounds had been illicitly obtained from unsuspecting businessmen. He named Mr IAN LOBLEY an Area Manager for local compliance at the Reading Office and IAN RAWLINSON as being involved in a conspiracy to cover-up in a case file. He condemned the practice as a 'criminal offence'.  He also added that since 2008 and 2009 he had been on the receiving end of persecution for raising the matter. He said certain colleagues at the office deliberately over-taxed businessmen so that they could boost their pay packets. Of course, the Tribunal went against him saying that he brought the allegations forward because of a grudge.....but the grudge element was not proved only suggested, and although they dismissed what he said, there is no reason to believe it was not true....because as we have seen before, when employees get annoyed, they often have the courage to tell all....and what he has told has a ring of truth about it.

TAX OFFICER CREATES FALSE ACCOUNTS IN FRAUD --- JONATHAN DAVIES, a Revenue Executive Officer at the Wrexham Tax Office, was jailed for eighteen months after admitting to three counts of conspiracy to defraud. He created bogus National Insurance Numbers and a network of false accounts, nominating several friends who would receive the payments. He falsified all the tax returns and managed the whole fraud methodically it was said at Mold Crown Court.

£2.3MILLION WAS STOLEN BY HMRC STAFF IN 2008 --- An internal memo of findings of fraud inside the Inland Revenue revealed that a clerk stole £220,000 from taxpayers and a senior member of staff fabricated her expenses claim to obtain £100,000 by deception. Nine people were convicted of serious criminal offences and others disciplined were allowed to resign. A total of over two million pounds were lost to those inside the tax office during a twelve month period. A report in the following year said that fiddling in the HMRC had actually increased and the figure of £3.6million was put forward.

TAX INSPECTORS SNOOPED ON 25 MILLION --Branded as Intrusive --They logged in details of anything and everything that could be either misconstrued or vaguely taxable that added value to properties including sideline activities, even charity work, in order to get more tax revenue.  This intrusive information was gathered secretly and ordered by HMRC bosses. Minister Eric Pickles said he was appalled by the extent of the intrusion into privacy by tax inspectors. He promised to reign in their right to enter and access properties on a mere whim or suspicion.

TAX INSPECTOR FOUND GUILTY OF EXPENSES --- Tax Inspector JOHN EVANS appeared before a tribunal after his own employers the HMRC looked through six years of records when Evans left the tax office.  They discovered that during the six years, he had been overclaiming on employment expenses. The tribunal charged him tax penalties for negligence?  (7th March 2010)

PETTY CASH COMPENSATION PAYOUT BY HMRC FOR CAUSING DISTRESS  --- If you qualify? Yes folks they come up with a piggybank sum of £25 for any injustice, distress and alarm etc, so don't spend it all at once -- but if it's the other way around you could well face a penalty of hundreds or thousands of pounds? fair justice eh?

HMRC INJUSTICE -- The taxation of Savings Income, a tax on interest, according to annoyed David Cardale of Tetbury in Gloucester. He says that this tax on interest -- already negative after inflation -- is pure confiscation and a blatant injustice perpetrated by the Inland Revenue.

' Tax Inspector goes to jail for fraud '

TAX INSPECTOR MARK RICHARD BAKER created 44 false identities in order to make tax repayments to himself -- Swindon Crown Court heard that Baker who worked at the Swindon HMRC defrauded the taxpayer out of £300,000. The Judge said he had misused his position!  Baker was jailed for three and a half years.

THE DENIED HMRC FINANCIAL INCENTIVES -- Every time they were asked about the incentive question, the HMRC denied all knowledge -- but a Freedom of Information request revealed it did exist. A Grade 7 member such as an Inspector gets a bonus of £1,549 on top of around £51,000 a year. All employees who deliver a high level of performance and behaviour which exceeds the required standard level set, can receive bonuses or promotion known as ' A Performance Award'

TAX OFFICER IN £3 MILLION FRAUD IS JAILED -- A Tax Administrator, IMRAN AJAIB worked at the Yorkshire, Shipley branch of the HMRC for just six months, in which time he passed on confidential data to use in a multi-million pound scam with others.  The info about company's details were passed to the members in order to claim £3 million in rebate payments.  Bradford Crown Court heard how bogus addresses and false bank accounts were drawn up, and false applications submitted for tax repayments. Ajaib from Bristol, was jailed for 2yrs-9months.

'HMRC 'Secret Tax Policy' revealed in ruined fraud case'

The Judge at Leeds Crown Court hit out at the HMRC over a 'secret policy' they had NOT TO PROSECUTE fraudsters who may have cheated the taxpayers out of millions in a car scam. This revelation happened when a case against nine defendants collapsed. The Judge discovered that not only he, but the Police and CPS were unaware of the HMRC Policy, when they were informed by a tax official that two of the men accused were given immunity from prosecution. The Judge told the Inland revenue that huge amounts of time had been wasted and a police investigation to get the case to court. The wasted costs were said to be approximately £500,000?

FIFTEEN MILLION CALLS UNANSWERED AND IGNORED BY HMRC --- One in four taxpayers are unable to discuss their tax problems or get a polite reply, that should be protocol.  Only 74 per cent of callers were actually able to speak to someone.  A consumer group said 'it is like a lottery where most of us lose' and that can have dire effects for many callers who are caught up in a claim. They actually say they have improved and admitted to only 48 per cent getting through to an advisor in 2010. (And in that year they claimed improvement, familiar?)

In 2010 there were 73,455 complaints lodged against the HMRC -- During the period of eighteen months April 2010 to September 2011 it only revealed that 212 behaviour related complaints had been investigated categorising them as 'compliance stream work' so as to avoid comment on the majority of the other complaints received??

The tax office will of course say that this is not representative of the HMRC, but we question that in the light of a confidential document that suggests that regional tax offices contact them before revealing wrong-doing by a member of staff, --- and that clearly indicates they want time to choose what or who can be offered up as a sacrifice - plus the evidence of your own eyes here showing cases and documented incidents and reports.  We have already seen the secrecy indulged in and we know that some investigations are suppressed and dealt with in privacy.  We are also assured by our friend who devotes his website entirely to exposing the HMRC that he has hundreds of cases, and we have at least double what we have shown here. We have only scratched the surface and further probes across the Internet will reveal more.

That is our little but not exhausted list, (at least 30 more waiting) we have more for later on these departments.

' BLAIR'S PURGE ON CORRUPTION IN TOWN HALLS '

This appeared many moons ago, an anti-sleaze commission was to be formed.  ' Open Government ' and all that guff, it was another lie.  It was supposed to be a purge on 20,000 councillors and senior executives, it was to investigate serious allegations of malpractice and have proper standards of behaviour.  It was to be overseen by Lawyers? oh dear, ( see them in the other files go to index). 

A list appeared naming Labour Councils - Birmingham, Coventry, Doncaster, Glasgow, Hull, Tyneside, Hackney in London, Paisley, South Tyneside etc, it should have included Torbay, Waltham Forest, Havant and Hastings.

' COUNCIL'S COVER-UP OWN FIDDLES '

A report which highlighted fraud within councils.  It estimated that £600 million was lost each year through staff, yes, civil servants, and councillors, again over allowances to a greater extent (this is before the Expenses Scandal of Parliament).  140 authorities investigated showed that 1 in 4 had housing benefit fraud being done by the staff and councillors.  Fewer than half of the councils investigated employees nor were they set up to, which resulted in it being largely ignored  --- they had enough claimants to go after.

' HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL IN ALLOWANCES SECRECY '

An Independent Watchdog revealed that more than £4m in allowances were being claimed without having to account for the money spent.  Expenses were yet again being hyped for travel and other things needed for them to carry out their duties.  The arrogant councillors rubbished the report immediately.  Suggestions to reform the expenses system were said to be unpopular with those involved the Chairman Peter Humphrey's said.

SALARIES KEPT SECRET - Hampshire Council leader says he is caught between trying to abide by the Freedom of Information Act while paying respect to the Data Protection Act.  Hampshire refused to answer a request for Information on Salaries under the Act when The Taxpayer's Allowance applied for the information.  Policy analyst Ben Ferrugia said of Hampshire - ' Everyone else who  works in the public sector has to produce this information.  It just makes us wonder what it's trying to hide.'

' COUNCIL DELAYS GRANTS TO CLAIMANTS '

Bristol City Council was found guilty of maladministration by the Ombudsman.  His report said that house improvement grants were being deliberately held back by council staff and officials. ' They have mishandled the scheme .  Ordinary people who have been waiting to do renovations to their run-down properties have suffered an injustice at the hands of people who should know their job.'  The council apparently did not know the difference between an application and an enquiry.

' COUNCIL BOSS GETS £100,000 PENSION FOR 7 YEAR STINT '

PETER GOULD of Northampton County Council received £291,000 in a lump sum, and a guaranteed pension of £100,000 a year.  He had been in the position of Chief Executive for only seven years before retiring.  The Public Sector pension deals were criticised by Ros Altmann a former treasury pensions advisor who said ' this is another vivid demonstration of how out of touch public sector pensions are.'

' COUNCIL IS FINED AFTER FAILING THE ELDERLY '

PORTSMOUTH COUNCIL was fined around £15,000 by the local NHS Trust for failing to find enough beds for elderly patients in need of care.  The council came up with various excuses for their failure to meet the problem including blaming families. 

' Councillor's tea break costs the taxpayer £7,000 '

TONBRIDGE WELLS BOROUGH COUNCILLOR SEAN HOLDEN left a meeting while in situ, and as a result of the hold-up to proceedings, an investigation into his disappearance cost over £7,371 and eight months to complete.  He had been reported to the council's standards assessment sub-committee.

' Councillor bailed over bribe faces police investigation '

PORTSMOUTH COUNCILLOR JEZ BAKER faced a 27 hour investigation by police from the serious and organized crime unit over corruption allegations.  He was arrested after he took money to support a planning application.

' COUNCIL PAYS OUT COMPENSATION OVER DISCRIMINATION CLAIM'

LAMBETH COUNCIL BOSS DEBORAH UGBECHIE's  treatment of two workers amounted to racial and sexual discrimination.  The Council paid out four figure compensation amounts to Ian short and Mr.M.Monaghan the only two white persons present in a meeting.  They were excluded from many  meetings and given trivial tasks.  A tribunal accepted there was a deliberate policy by the black majority led by the council chief to trivialized the roles of the two whites. 

' Member of Parliament rapped over non declarations '

DAVID WILLETTS MP told the Electoral Commission that the£45,000 in donations which were not declared was a mistake.  He received five donations between May 5th and September the 28th in 2007.  The Havant MP was reprimanded for not following the rules.

As this article went into production, David Willetts was yet again in trouble for another non disclosure (20/6/09) and maintained it was another mistake?

' FIRM TAKES COUNCIL TO THE HIGH COURT '

PORTSMOUTH CITY COUNCIL was served with proceedings for money owed to them.  Social Housing Co. Mears is suing for £151,858 concerning repairs and decorating.  Lawyer for the council Michael Lawther said '   It will not assist the process of our ongoing discussions for the council to comment on matters that are the subject of negotiation.  Steve Wemyss, councillor was demanding for more transparency when dealing with public money.

That word 'TRANSPARENCY' -- Lawyers don't believe in it and neither does the Government.

' Councils take on extra staff when the private sector is forced to lay off '

At a time when people in the private sector are losing their jobs and in some cases take less in pay, the town halls are taking on 10,00 pen pushers to bolster and support existing staff. 

' COUNCIL ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE '

SOUTHSEA TOWN COUNCIL have been experiencing difficulties and look to closure after years of political arguments.  Suggestions of Portsmouth City Council riding rough shod over Southsea were made by Councillor Symes.  The people are being invited into a public consultation on whether the council should continue.

' COUNCIL IN MORE SECRECY '

PORTSMOUTH CITY COUNCIL tried to suppress news that its own social club for employees was worse than any low cafe, it was lacking the basic sense of hygiene.  The council is supposed to uphold standards, but instead it tried to prevent the information coming out.  It revealed dirty floors, rotten shelving and freezers not being monitored that contained risk food.  Out of date bottled beers, cracked utensils, and a fridge.

' FORMER COUNCILLOR BEHIND BARS AGAIN '

FORMER HAVANT COUNCILLOR CHRISTOPHER MINCHAM is in jail for a second time.  The disgraced Havant Councillor was jailed in 2004 and now again in March 2009.  His chequered History includes bankruptcy owing the council thousands, guilty of a swindle, two people burned to death in one of his properties, Illegal dumping, another bankruptcy, a row over benefits and numerous breaches of council orders.  He was thrown off the council in Havant.

During the beginning of the millennium, Havant was also rocked by a story of councillors vote rigging.

It is also worth mentioning that Havant's Solicitor Nicholas Bennett claimed that there was no corruption in Havant Borough Council?   1 in 4 councils have corruption see (councils cover up their own fiddles).

Would he tell anyone if there was?     NO.

' Snooping councils make their own Data Protection Rules '

Nine in ten people being spied upon by councils are innocent according to findings that looked into the reported 10,333 times the legislation has been used.  Over 1,650 council staff were given authority to become a sort of secret police.  They were even allowed to see DVLA files of 270,000 motorists in a bid to trap people for 'environmental crimes'   Peter Booth of ' No to ID ' said ' What we are seeing is powers which are brought in for one purpose being abused time and again for relatively minor offences.'

COMMENT: it's amazing how council workers go on about not being able to give info because of Data Protection yet they abuse this rule themselves quite frequently as can be seen in files on dwpcorruption.co.uk.  The solicitor Nicholas Bennett likes you to think they abide by these rules too!! - he of the ' no corruption in my council '

' 7 Charges of Vote Rigging by Tory Activist in Council Elections '

JOHN HALL Chairman of the Whitely Conservatives found himself in Guildford Crown Court.  Claims of falsifying poll papers were alleged, but only four of the seven charges had merit.  Hall claimed that he had acted out of good faith and was only found guilty on four counts of using a false instrument  with intent. 

' COUNCIL OFFICER IS SUSPENDED '

PORTSMOUTH CITY COUNCIL OFFICER WENDY COUCH was suspended after police started an investigation into an overnight stay on a yacht during Cowes Week.  She was suspended over ' the gifts claim ' by chief executive David Williams.  The investigation was centred on whether there had been any misconduct in public office.

' COUNCIL THREATS IN ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL PAYOUT '

WALTHAM FOREST COUNCIL in London resorted to threats of intimidation and legal bullying to hide an out of court settlement of £2,000 to a pensioner accused of not paying owed council tax.  Chief Solicitor Michael Smith began bullying pensioner Mr. Aspin of Bognor Regis by saying he would withdraw the offer if it were mentioned to a third party.  This all came about when the council instructed bailiffs to collect council tax from the pensioner.  They had already had without his knowledge gone to the magistrates court to have him convicted as a tax defaulter.  However, proper investigation would have shown the pensioner was not liable and that he no longer owned the said property in the period taxed.  They didn't bother, even though the pensioner approached them with proof.  Instead, they employed bailiffs.  When they admitted their error it was called a mistake, but they followed this with threats to silence him and suppress the compensation from the public.

NEWS IN BRIEF:

' WAGES RISE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS, NO OTHER SECTOR '   Workers in Government Departments saw their salaries rise by 3.5 per cent in recent months and the number of staff vastly increased.  Research showed that over a 1000 town hall executives earned more than a £100,000 a year.

' GOVERNMENT MINISTER CLAIMS THE NUMBER OF CIVIL SERVANTS SHOULD BE HALVED '  Lord Digby Jones said as many as half of the present employees and senior management staff should be given the sack.  There are 521,620 civil servants in the UK.  The average pay is £22,160 per annum.  The average pay rise in the public sector is 37 per cent.  There is a public sector pensions deficit of £1 trillion.

' COUNCIL WORKERS WHISTLEBLOWER HOTLINE IS SET UP '  Public Concern at Work a charity organisation aims to make it easier for council employees to reveal wrongdoing or malpractice.  Portsmouth's solicitor Michael Lawther admitted that the old system of reporting was not fit for purpose.  This move comes after council employee Peter Cave revealed overpayments of £186,000 were being made to contractors who were sent out to check gas meters at council homes --- where they only had electricity meters.

' COVERAGE ON DISGRACED COUNCILLOR IS MINIMAL '  Geoff Burr has noticed that column-wise, the exposure on councillor Hugh Pritchard is sadly lacking despite the attention it was attracting around Portsmouth.

' COUNCILLOR IN INDECENCY TRIAL QUITS '

WORTHING BOROUGH COUNCILLOR MARK McCARTHY appeared at Oxford Crown Court on charges of sexually assaulting a child.  After four hours the jury acquitted him of the sex charges but upheld the offence of threatening to publish intimate pictures and making threatening phone calls with the intention of perverting the course of justice.   The Judge warned Mr. McCarthy of his drinking problem and said ' I do not propose to pass a custodial sentence.  I am concerned that you have to do something about your alcohol abuse.'

' COUNCILLOR FINDS HIMSELF BEING QUESTIONED BY POLICE '

TORY COUNCILLOR STUART HUGHES who intends to stand in the elections for East Devon happily performed in front of cameras covering the issue of looting of items shipwrecked and beached in Branscombe.  He attacked scavengers vehemently.  The councillor who is a member of the police authority was arrested himself on the suspicions he had taken a BMW bike worth £15,000.  He was interviewed by the Devon and Cornwall Police.

' COUNCIL TARGETS DRIVERS AND PARKING '

FAREHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL came under attack for fleecing the motorist because of the huge profit they were making from the beleaguered motorist.  It collected in one scoop, £48,285 in fines, with more due.  Portsmouth Council pockets more than a £1 million a year doing the same thing.  Fareham came under attack later when they were taken to court over speed cameras and a court found they had acted illegally and were required to pay compensation to many drivers.

£3 million is refunded over illegal parking fines '

SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, LANCASHIRE CITY COUNCIL, SHEFFIELD COUNCIL, HARROW COUNCIL, LEEDS CITY COUNCIL, SOUTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL, and others are now paying back fines they illegally took from motorists.  After an investigation it was discovered that decisions to fine were basically a stealth tax, and the councils were not being challenged about the reason or evidence to support the tickets.  Sheffield Council had to refund £350,000 to 13,500 motorists.  Surrey Council paid out £2.8 million to motorists.

' HAMPSHIRE EURO MP IN FRAUD '

DISGRACED MP ASHLEY MOTE was found guilty and jailed over benefit fraud.  He was not required to pay back money to the Chichester District Council and the Department of Work and Pensions.  But he was ordered to pay back £67,000 he took out of the public purse.  He was convicted of 21 benefit offences, let out of jail early and went straight into a well paid job despite the conviction. He was allowed to keep his £60,000 Euro MP job?

' COUNCIL PAYS OUT OVER ABUSE AT KIDS HOME '

PORTSMOUTH CITY COUNCIL has agreed to pay out compensation to 19 claimants who were abused at the Cosham Children's Cottage Homes from 1947 to 1971.  A leaked memo gave city solicitor Michael Lawther permission to pay the group up to £92,000 - £3,000 each plus £35,000 legal fees.  The solicitor Anne Bevan for the council said the payout does not mean they accept liability for what happened. 

The campaigners only wanted an apology, but ended up with a two year battle to get Portsmouth council to recognise what Council Care had done in the past, how it ignored the situation, and it was trying to ignore the abused yet again. 

Incidentally, the Lawyers in this affair made sure the payout would mean that the claimants sign away their rights to any further legal action.

Lawyers are the scum of the earth, and you can see why when you see that previous clause in the payout.

' HOME OFFICE CIVIL SERVANTS FACE 870 CORRUPTION CLAIMS '

The Home Office came in for serious condemnation when it's Officers were charged with 870 counts of corruption.  A whistleblower accused officials at Lunar House Croydon, of offering visas in return for sexual favours.  The report in July 2006 said the scale of the corruption came as a blow to the Home Office who had repeatedly defended their staff in all sorts of accusations brought.  Figures showed that wrong-doing, misconduct and corruption was worse than they had expected.  31 people have been referred for police consideration, 79 are facing disciplinary action.  The Anti-corruption unit looked at 703 cases and decided to proceed with 409 cases.  They admitted with present staffing that 1 person in 20 had come under suspicion for corruption.

THE MAYORS:

MAYOR STOLE £65,000 FOR GAMBLING HABIT

MAYOR and Labour Councillor Jayne Yeomans was jailed for twelve months after she repeatedly took funds from her local social club.  The figure was around £65,000.  She also forged her husband's signature in order to re-mortgage the house so she could acquire a further £25,000.  She was the Mayor of Carlisle.  She served as a Labour councillor from 1983 to 1996.

MAYOR IS ARRESTED OVER CHILD ABUSE CLAIMS

MAYOR EMERY-WALLIS of Portsmouth and Senior Councillor, was  arrested and questioned on suspicion of indecently assaulting a girl.  He was later released on bail but after prosecutors considered the case it was decided that there was not enough evidence to proceed with a successful outcome.  In a previous case he was jailed for nine months after indecently assaulting two teenage boys in 2001.

MAYOR PARKS ON DOUBLE YELLOW LINES

MAYOR OF FAREHAM, KATRINA TROTT found herself having to apologise after illegally parking her vehicle across a cycle lane.  She was caught on camera blocking an entrance to the Bath Lane Recreation facility.  Fareham Borough Council said they did not issue a parking ticket as the enforcement officer did not catch the offender so-to speak, so there will be no fine.

See article - COUNCIL TARGETS DRIVERS AND PARKING - involving the same borough, it seems there is a law for one and a different law if you are actually with the council.

THE DEPUTY MAYOR OF LONDON Mr. Clements has been charged with fraud offences according to a brief news bulletin.  Details have not been released at this time and Boris Johnson the Mayor was unavailable for comment.

MAYOR ANDY MATCHET OF COVENTRY was suspended for outrageous and lewd behaviour committed at an official ball.   Excess boozing was claimed by the mayor --- the council confirmed the sanction taken against the Conservative member.

' civil servants get a £250 bonus for struggling into work '

Yes indeed, the public sector workers have been offered £250 if they manage to negotiate heavy snow in order to get to work.  At a cost to the taxpayer of £56,000, we can all be glad that these civil servants are being highly valued for their efforts on our behalf.  Millions struggle to work without any extra incentives, but our elite civil servants, yes, the cosseted ones, earn the right to be given a bonus, how thoughtful of the Government??

' CLOAK OF SECRECY AND COVER-UP ACTIVATED BY COUNCIL '

TAUNTON DEANE COUNCIL in Somerset went straight into a damage limitation mode when baby Rhiana Hardy was killed by a boiler in the council house the family were living in.  With their immunity from a murder charge or manslaughter, they prevented press and any others from getting at the truth.  They were at least a contributory factor - Contributory Negligence and an Accessory to Causing death ' ---- they answered to none of this and pretended that it was accidental, but lessons would be learned. 

TAUNTON DEANE COUNCIL used similar tactics in another case concerning a woman ' antisocial case ' who they knew about and ignored the fact that she was up to her disruptive tricks again in another area.  The officials are -- Mr.S. Boland, and a Mr. I. Taylor. --- two council civil servants who couldn't care less.

' Grotesque misuse of Council Authority '

KIRKLEES COUNCIL near Huddersfield in Yorkshire were blasted by the Judge in a case brought by the council over a sweet wrapper.  Under the anti-litter legislation this case was pursued at a total cost of over £5,000.  The Judge was furious at the way taxpayers money was spent against Miss Wilkinson. 

' HAMPSHIRE COUNCIL FEATHERS ITS NEST VERY NICELY '

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL really did nicely for its headquarters when it came to furnishing it with quality fittings --- they spent £12,000 on designer taps, £141,000 every year on bottled water and some £1.25 million on furniture ---desks and chairs.  Renovations to the Headquarters cost around £40 million.  The taxpayer is so generous, but they never really know it.

' BARNET COUNCIL SLAMMED BY OMBUDSMAN '

The Ombudsman found BARNET COUNCIL guilty of Maladministration for trying to evict a student for rent arrears.  He said due to their errors in the calculation of his benefits and they pursued her with threats over arrears and court action.  The Ombudsman said the officials in the departments lacked communications skills and written records were shoddy.  He forced the council to apologise and put the matter right and reimburse her for expenses and suggested some compensation for their wrongdoing.

BARNET COUNCIL CHEAT ELDERLY IN ORDER TO SAVE £400.000.  The council have removed house wardens in a bid to cut back on care for the elderly and infirm.  Panorama revealed the callous way council decisions were causing distress to old age pensioners.  

' Torbay Council ignore fiddling workers '

A case suppressed for several years reveals that Torbay Council did not take proper action when a whistleblower revealed that council workers in their parks and recreational teams were going missing during times they were supposed to be at a particular ground.  Some vans were seen outside dwellings in the middle of the afternoon.  one young worker admitted he bunked off to see his girlfriend and said others did it so why not him.  Time sheets were fiddled and the whistleblower said everyone knew it was happening, but so was a lot of other scams.

THE GESTAPO CIVIL SERVANTS -- Jobcentre plus and hierarchy

WHAT DO YOU ENCOUNTER IF YOU MAKE A CLAIM AGAINST THEM?

LIES, DECEIT, SECRECY and DELAY.

To learn more about this and see the truth go to the site dwpcorruption.co.uk run by my friend/associate, Martin.H.

The following list is one of shame, they typify the behaviour above and should not be trusted.

DEBBIE MAYES   Personal Advisor, Havant Jobcentre.

MARK STEPHENS  Under Manager,  Havant.

TONY PAUL   Branch manager, Cosham.

JASON ISAACS  Manager, Havant.

ANDY BROWN    Management, Havant.

MARTIN PRYOR  District Manager, Hampshire.

PAUL WILLIAMS  Jobcentre Complaints Section.

MEL GROVES  Jobcentre Executive.

ROLAND GINN  Benefits/Jobcentre Executive.

Ms. J. GULLIVER   Decision Maker, Southampton.

CAROL SMITH  Policy Advisor, DWP.

What have they all in common?  they all collectively delayed and sidetracked an issue of misconduct and maladministration.

' BENEFIT FRAUD INVESTIGATORS ON THE FIDDLE '

SIX FRAUD INVESTIGATORS in the Benefits Agency were discovered to have been committing fraud themselves.  The 'un-named officers ' pocketed cash in false claims for travel expenses, overtime and have lavish office parties.  One Section Head earning more than £40,000 a year is under serious investigation and another senior dole-fraud buster is being investigated over claims that a consultancy contract worth thousands of pounds was given to her brother without being put out to tender.  The falsely claimed money is in the tens of thousands of pounds.  The Debt Recovery Organisation refused to comment.

' I Could name two dozen members of staff that are on the fiddle says former employee '

£330,000 in Overtime payments claimed by staff working hideously slowly in normal time, residential courses with hotel accommodation taken by inappropriate staff, bogus sickness claims running on for months, personal time-sheets altered and increased to claim more, and a prosecution rate of just two claimants per year for each fraud officer.  Former Sussex Benefits officer D. Miller says he could name 24 employees very easily who are fiddling the system and other civil servants who should be investigated.  Mr. Miller left after he had seen a complete disregard for the public they were supposed to be protecting and serving, ' they were looking after themselves first, and this is only one branch I'm talking about/' he said.

' A Jobcentre Plus Scam '

Every year the UK Jobcentre Plus purposely call people who are signing on intentionally late to the office.  After waiting until they are ten minutes overdue for signing, security staff remove them from the waiting area and make them go to the front desk or reception to find out what is going on.  The Jobcentre staff then claim to to have been calling the claimant to sign up for twenty minutes, whilst they were waiting at the front desk.  Their claim is then suspended arbitrarily because they failed to sign on and the claimant is then required to fill in a rapid reclaim form and open a new claim.  The Investigator (under cover), noticed that there was someone every day filling in a rapid reclaim form and it was always at the same time of year, just before the unemployment figures were about to be released.  Not only does this cause the claimant to lose out on their entitlement to benefits, such as a budgeting loan after six months of claiming, but it also means that the claimant doesn't have to go on A Gateway to work Course for another eighteen months, so, in effect they are using this to purposely to try and get people to sign off, yet stopping them from going to the course in the first place by intentionally ceasing people's claims.

' A4e the bonus payout and Benefits Agency '

A secret research document shows that for every one person that signs off JSA, the Department of work and Pensions received a hefty payout of more than £2,000 regardless of how long the claimant signs off for, or whether they even go into employment.  A4e are then awarder a nice bonus from this sum.  In fact, the majority of people who sign off because of the A4e course don't actually find any employment at all, they just can't stand to be on the course anymore.  Also, whilst attending the course he was told that he couldn't get more help in any way because he was not 18 -- 24.  Yet, he was still made to attend or lose his benefits.  He concluded that A4e, a gateway contract Company, was basically a scam company who uses and manipulates JSA claimants leaving them with no income at all so that they can receive a nice amount of money; a process that should be illegal.

The scandal we published here was ignored, and now four years later, The Mail takes the credit for exposing A4e for what we told you.  TODAY in Feb 2012 four people were under arrest for fraud in the 'back to work' scheme that receives millions from the government.  Four members on the staff at the employment agency who falsely claimed that jobseekers had been placed into employment. However, a whistleblower said the official stand in regard to the arrests is riddled with concealment and reworking of the truth.  The whistleblower says that managers in the A4e are largely to blame urging jobseekers to fill out job outcomes which earned staff an £80 bonus, but the company would be able to claim up to £1,000 in success fees from the government. There were no checks on whether successful jobseekers had been working for 13 weeks, paperwork was entered in as soon as the form was filled and no questions asked. A4e have indignantly refuted the whistleblower's claims??

THERE HAS BEEN NINE INVESTIGATIONS INTO A4e since 2005 --- it has only now been revealed by the DWP -- who remained quiet on this issue for years.  They said they had all been investigations into fraud at the company. In five cases the company was ordered to repay thousands of pounds to the taxpayer. Irregularities had been discovered and an employee in Hull had been found guilty on eight charges of forgery.

NEW REVELATIONS AT A4e --- Founder resigns ---EMMA HARRISON the Head of A4e resigned amid the expose of a whistleblower -- Employee Tracie Spiers telling how jobseekers were coached into signing blank timesheets and forged signatures. She said staff routinely forged signatures on documents....she said the jobless clients were asked to sign blank timesheets every Friday at the centre where she was in Slough. If the targets were not met, then staff signed bogus signatures on blank forms to reach the targets set by government. It is stated that the Police have moved in on the Slough office and have begun investigations into fraud. It has also been stated that others have come forward at other A4e centres and investigations are to be conducted.

MORE YET ON A4e --- 'Unusual Company behaviour and clam up' --- One man reveals his story, Sean White of Lewes, near Brighton, was signing at his local Jobcentreplus when he was referred to A4e which was supposed to help him find employment.  He was to begin a one month work placement known as Mandatory Work Activity --A4e phoned him from their Eastbourne office saying it was setting up a placement lined up with his experience and skills and after a short while he was given the okay and given a start date which was confirmed. He liked the job but couldn't get any travelling expenses from A4e and was suddenly told by the Jobcentre that his placement hadn't been vetted and the start date deferred? yet he was already on the placement as arranged by their Eastbourne office!  Sean became highly suspicious when he was contacted by his A4e advisor who insisted I dealt with them and not with the Jobcentre...after He told them of the Jobcentre call A4e went silent and withdrew...and then the Jobcentre told him he had failed the placement test on health and safety...he asked A4e to contact the Jobcentre several times but nothing came of it.  The A4e matter has now been taken up by investigators at the DWP, and his Jobcentre have bypassed A4e and MWA and referred him to a proper work programme....he says so far the A4e have remained silent despite repeated requests for information?

A4e to be investigated by Whitehall --- A Fraud Probe into the 'back-to-work' agency has been ordered to run alongside the current police investigation. A spokesperson said that the DWP has immediately commenced its own investigation as a result of new allegations. It is said that A4e hold £180 million of contracts to deliver the Government's Work Programme.

A4e --- The Epitaph --- It has now been conceded that corruption is on a large scale at this organisation, yet, looking back to the first glimpse.....it started with quotes of ' It is an isolated case' - followed by ' it is mainly confined to one branch' -- then as it erupted into a full scale situation -- it was SILENCE.....this is the order of accountability....deny, deny, and try to lie your way out of it in the hope no-one spots anything else....if that doesn't work answer nothing and get your supporters to knock the camera out of anyone's hand and threaten investigative journalists.....this has all been done in the past to deflect any concentration of getting at the truth.....such is the politics of government, big business and the judiciary....history repeats itself but regularly fails to learn from it.

A4e -- Corruption no problem, quite acceptable, as they look set to get another Government Contract despite being under investigation for fraud. It hardly comes as a surprise these days, This one is with guess it? with the a branch of the Law --- The Home Office, to run a helpline on discrimination and employment tribunal advice on whether employees can sue their employers. This comes as ten welfare-to-work contracts are being investigated by the DWP all awarded to A4e. It has been revealed that A4e had the status of 'preferred bidder'  and they say crime doesn't pay!!

Strangely but true, it is a fact that former Labour Home Secretary DAVID BLUNKETT works as a part-time advisor for A4e and has recently been given a pay award -- from his £30,000 a year previously, to £35,000 now.

This is a perfect example of transparency suppressed in order to cover-up and keep things from the public.

'CDG another contractor who vanishes the unemployment figures '

The Jobcentre and Government pretend this contract trains the unemployed back into work, but its first duty is to take claimants out of the benefit figures and sidetrack them to another system not included as ' jobless '  the claimant signs off and is required to under the Gateway Project and are referred to by Jobcentre staff as being employed by the contractor? 

THE CAREERS DEVELOPMENT GROUP, and this concerns their Fratton franchise, only offer a learning plan, many claimants are led into thinking they will be trained in a skill or vocation by the Jobcentre staff who tell this lie so often that they now believe it.  CDG are a registered Charity, not an Industry leader in training people for vacancies.  Sadly they have many flaws and techniques that border on the unlawful at times, and I mean Human Rights Law.  One young man, Daniel was thrown off the course (which would likely affect his benefits) because he refused to go over his C.V. after having another C.V. approved by one of the training staff.  The next case, and this one is serious in many ways.  Michael, a diligent claimant who followed all required jobsearch targets found himself being treated like a naughty child by a member of the staff.  He was 'bawled out ' in front of a full room of claimants (clients), and told to go to the office.    He was as he put it -- interrogated, and was accused of being in a pub and drinking.  Michael is actually tea total and was having a coke a cola with a meal.  She ranted about policy and being under the influence.  At lunchtime Michael saw the female staff member in the pub and she was drinking alcohol.  It seems there one law for them and one for the clients he said.  He also mentioned that this was not the first episode he has had with this same member of staff.  Again she used the tactic of humiliation in front of everyone in the room.  She accused him of taking her Job Leads that she was going to inspect, Michael handed her his folder and she did not find them in his papers.  She did not apologise, and Michael quite rightly claims 'victimization' in these circumstances.  Other than these incidents, it is practice for this group to make threats and bully clients knowing that they are immune because of cover by the Jobcentre.

' The DWP have no duty of care and they could not care less about you '

The JOBCENTRE and DWP officials denied a spastic claimant a payment from a hardship fund put in place by the Government to help in these situations.  Mr. Anderton was at his wits end financially, especially as he faced having his gas supply cut-off.  A Sogat Union Official could not believe the callous way they dealt with the invalid claimant.  ' It's unbelievable what little respect these civil servants have for the public ' he said.  A letter from the Department said ' We regret it has not been possible for this department to help in this matter '   Luckily with the Union's intervention on behalf of the man the decision was reversed later.

' No fair Legal system at the DWP, the Lawyers will see to that '

Mentally Handicapped Benefits claimant Mandy Kilburn managed to win her claim on appeal after challenging the Jobcentre and DWP over a cut in benefits. In court the callous DWP Solicitor, and there are several?  said ' this case raises a very important point of Law '  It became quite apparent that they were setting out on a course to destroy the Adjudicator's decision.  Mandy was not allowed to have Legal aid, claimants are usually poor and they cannot argue points of Law.  The DWP brought in 2 Barristers, 2 Solicitors, plus officials, and they snatched back her short-lived victory.  LAWYERS are SCUM and this case proves it.

THE RATCATCHER PROJECT - EXPOSING THE JOBCENTRE AND DWP.

THE INVESTIGATION CALLED 'PROJECT RATCATCHER ' WAS LAUNCHED IN AUGUST 2001 and went on until December the 31st 2003.  It was to root out corruption in the Jobcentre and DWP and report its findings.  Those findings we have here.

The Rat catcher Project was due to the strange events of people being exposed to fake charges and bundled out of jobcentres by the Police and how claims were lost and so on.

There is an engrained policy of them and us and that is still present today.

The common issues were:

making appointments but never issue a letter.
Send a letter 2 weeks after an event took place.
Cancellation of benefit but notification 2 weeks later.
Losing papers for recording signing on.
Failure to enter payment evidence on a system.
Misuse of CCTV to spy or laugh at claimants.
Add jobs to a claimants account but never tell the claimant.
Sent claimants for jobs that were closed.
Refusal to supply a notice that a job was closed.
Sending claimants to jobs that did not exist.
Expecting the claimant to know that an employer had changed address.
Refusing people to sign on.
Making appointments when they were not required.
Filing out PVP forms to the point of no evidence.
Refusal to offer help and advice.
Lied to the claimant over district offices and regional offices so that the complaint could be investigated.
Changing post offices without prior knowledge.
Destruction of receipts so that the claimant could not apply for a future CSA budget loan.
Sending money to the wrong address.
Making false allegations to the police.
Refusal to supply a receipt for the handing in of an application form for work or benefit.


The solution was odd, but there is a set of obscure offices that the DWP would sooner the public not know about.

The staff in Jobcentres treat the public as a joke because the vast majority of the public does not know who to complain to.

See:

district office.
Regional.
Caxton house.
Quarry house.
Rebus.
SOLA.
ADELPHI buildings.
Parliamentary under secretary
secretary of state.
PM

Project Ratcatcher showed very clearly that the main offices of the DWP did not know what went on in Jobcentres and had no plan to investigate so the only way to beat the civil servants known as 'civs,' was either take them to court or to send legal papers to the regional offices.

The above account and facts are supported by our next item.

' Whistle-blowing on the Jobcentre Staff '

Richard Barrymore (our Private Investigator) supplies us with the following articles.

Mrs P. who works part/time in the Jobcentre said ' There's lots of things go on that I can't possibly tell you about as I'd get into trouble, all that secrecy stuff.  You have to watch your back, some of them are after rising up the ladder and if you don't pull their way they make sure you are not welcome.  But I can tell you some of the standard excuses we are told to give out when we cannot be bothered or we know something has gone wrong with the system, and that means we are at fault, but we blame it on the claimants, its easy to do.

IT'S IN THE POST.

THE PERSON DEALING WITH YOUR CLAIM IS OFF SICK.

I'M SORRY, BUT WE CANNOT LOCATE YOUR FILE.

THERE SEEMS TO BE AN ERROR ON THE COMPUTER.

WE'LL GIVE YOU A TELEPHONE CALL TOMORROW - But we rarely do.

' Social Fund low on priorities '

It was discovered that the Benefits Agency spend more on postage than the social fund for the needy.  It spent around £64 million on mail and a poultry £49million on the fund which supports emergency payments.  Postage cannot help the poorest families whereas an increase in the fund can said Mr. Caan.

' Three year ordeal at the hands of an insensitive Benefits Agency '

A sick divorcee suffering from cancer spent three years lighting her home with candles and huddling with her children over a gas-ring for warmth.  Her Lawyer said  of the agency ' seriously at fault, careless and deplorably inadequate.  The woman's electricity was cut-off because of an unpaid bill, and had her benefit claim been properly managed things would have been very different.  Officials even made a mess of backdating her claim and ignored their own mistakes. 

' False Evidence by solicitors, Harassment and False Allegations by Benefits Agency '

When they're wrong they're right, that's the Benefits Agency and they do it with the aid of the DWP solicitors.  Mrs.G. Moore suffered harshly at their hands when they levied false accusations in statements to prove their case that my claim for benefits was suspicious.  My solicitor met with them and showed them proof, yet they put me through mental and physical pain, and she is 80.  They still continued to insist their false evidence had credence even though it had been proved otherwise.  They should be prosecuted.

' THE CASE OF THE INLAND REVENUE OFFICER WHO LIED '

AN Unidentified civil servant at the Inland revenue seemed unconcerned that a lie interfered with a claimant's valid request.  He actually said the info was on the pc regarding a claim for Income Support, whereas the claimant had never claimed income support at any time.  His bungle and false statement quashed the claim and it was only after trouble and delay to the claimant that it was finally put right.

They were requested to reveal the civil servant, but denied this and said there was a clerical error??

FRAUD IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE '

HOSPITAL LAB BOSS VICTORIA GRUBER STOLE ALMOST £2,500 by submitting bogus time sheet claims.  She falsified time sheets to make it look as if she was working longer hours at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham near Portsmouth.  She was sentenced to a 120 day prison sentence suspended for eighteen months.  A report says their special in-house fraud unit prosecuted 422 cases in the National Health Service.

' NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BOSS IN SWINDLE '

DAVID MORTON a finance chief with the National Health Service took over £133,000 to pay for his own business, a luxury car and his divorce.  The accountant lined his pockets with public money to offset the settlement in his divorce and further his own interests.  He faces being struck off the register and the police were called in as soon as the fraud was discovered.  St Thomas and Guy's hospitals are working with him in a bid to get repayment it is said.

' THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE COUNCIL EVICTION '

Very secretive and poorly covered at the time. But this involved Wimborne Minster and Corfe Mullen concerning an eviction company and strange goings on that involved the police and solicitors.  It appears from the report they lied about certain facts surrounding the eviction, and at some point a Judge was involved in the affair.  It came out that they had lied about the eviction company in order to cover up another matter.

' THE £400,000 BRIBERY CLAIM AGAINST A FORMER HOME SECRETARY '

It is claimed that a bribe of £400,000 was paid to the then home secretary Michael Howard by criminal John Haase.  He claimed his early release was secured through the Home Secretary's cousin, Simon Bakerman.  The incident went back to 2004 and subsequent arrangements around the affair became confusing and complicated.  Haase said, ' We had a million to play with so £400,000 was to pay off Michael Howard when the judge's letter reached him.'    There was no comment from Mr. Howard and the whole matter seems to have been suppressed since it appeared in November 2008.

'COUNCIL CORRUPTION PROBE '

On the 6th of March 2009, a council official was arrested on corruption charges by the Newcastle Police.  This happened after the earlier arrest of another official from The Newcastle City Council.  A spokesperson declined to give details of the circumstances leading up to both arrests.

' COUNCIL SLAMMED OVER PARKING CONTRACTOR '

HAVANT COUNCIL was criticised over the behaviour of Alan Page  described as a villain, who holds a contract to pursue motorists in the district.  Page's henchman Chris March is said to engage in criminal activities by many of the victims.  Havant Council seemed unworried about this and would not comment on the way this contractor threatens and bullies the motorist.  They are obviously happy with his methods and those probably reflect their own.

'JOBCENTRE CIVIL SERVANTS -- NOT SO CIVIL '

Apparently, the Whitehall handbook code of conduct says :  Civil servants should conduct themselves with integrity, impartiality and honesty.  Also that they should not seek to frustrate or influence the policies and decisions  -- yet the staff at Havant do not come anywhere near to this ideal.  It says that civil servants are not directly accountable to the public when it comes to freedom of information  --- they use it and abuse it while you lose it!

' THE SICKNESS SCAM OF COUNCIL EMPLOYEES'

£4 Billion a year is the cost to the taxpayer a recent study informs us about council staff who play the ' sickness card ' twice as much as workers in the private sector.  Employees were discovered to take 13 . 5 days off sick each year compared to 7.9 days in private firms.  Although 'faked illness' was a seemingly big issue, the senior managers played this down by saying it was up to ' line managers' to follow up this issue.  The report recommended that council chiefs interview workers who are taking 'suspiciously' long breaks on illness grounds.  It is of no surprise that the managers pretend that there is nothing to worry about, because they are not particularly worried and nor do they fear action being taken  -- they are a protected species.

' INTERNAL FRAUD SECRECY AT THE DWP AND A4E SCANDAL '

The Government downplayed recent reports showing fraud in its ' Welfare to Work' schemes despite one of its flagship's A4e (mentioned earlier) was compromised by serious fraud.  Fake job applications were discovered to be going on at another contract flagship NETWORK, the DWP were not prepared to comment on this or another incident being exposed at a third organisation.  Secrecy seems to be the keyword for the DWP and this has been ordered and recommended by the DWP Lawyers at New Court, 43, Carey St. London.  An insider says that they are anxious to keep a lid on this matter at any cost, and will take appropriate action to keep details away from the press and public --- even if it means issuing threats.

A4Es Emma Harrison is getting £100 a week in Government cash for each person they handle, yet she probably claims not to know anything about the corruption in her organisation. She is ultimately responsible for the corruption in A4E either by ignorance or turning a blind eye - ignorance is no defence in Law it is said, but few Lawmakers or companies actually follow this themselves.  Channel 4 display the company as a moral subject to get people back to work, but they too have been involved in corruption in a phone in scam, not just once, but twice-- see Related topics.  Its amazing how a television company and A4E think they have the right to display themselves as honest when they are certainly not.

' THE APPALLING CASE  OF GOVERNMENT CHILD CRUELTY '

THE BAD BENEFITS AGENCY and a Government so appalling that all involved should be fired, including the Lawyers.  This case is about a boy of two, orphan Aaron Richards, who contracted a rare form  of meningitis.  He had both legs amputated and one hand had to lose all its fingers.  Someone who cared, and that certainly was not the Benefits agency or government, raised a sum of £13,000 to help the boy's guardians cope with the stress and give the boy a decent life.  But were the Benefits Agency helpful? NO, not at all, in fact they took measures to stop the lad's benefits.  This is the truth about the Benefits Agency and DWP.  They have no feelings of goodwill to anyone and I want this to show that even if they do not like it being published.

' Government and Councils add to misery and cruelty of elderly in care '

CRUEL CARERS is the headline exposing the abuse of the elderly in care homes and NHS hospitals. These things have been known about by the councils and Government for years, but conveniently brushed aside for political reasons.  Thousands of elderly people are being abused and suffering neglect at the hands of sadistic staff. The report is truly shocking, but not amazing or unexpected.  It accuses councils of spending less money on providing fewer services for the pensioners in addition to rife age discrimination.  Cameron has long issued spin and lies to make believe he cares for the aged, which is cynical and disturbing. It sees around 500,000 old age pensioners as being put at risk by councils and private care homes, and says many of these incidents amount to abuses of human rights, and are the culprits brought to book or removed, NO.

' The Benefits Agency are prejudiced says disabled man '

GROSS VICTIMIZATION claims disabled claimant Simon Spratt of his local Benefits Agency.  To show willing, the man who suffers asthma, eczema and various allergies, took a part-time job which he was told would help his future job prospects.  Unfortunately, the job fell through earlier than he expected, and he returned to his jobcentre hoping to get on a workplace or training scheme.  Due to conditions of his health, they said he wasn't actively seeking employment so they couldn't allow him benefit.  Simon had already shown willing to attend a training course, but they were not willing to listen.  He had to spend what little savings he had to just get by, and the Government pretend the money is there to help those who need it most.  And as we have seen with the expenses scandal, we now know who they really mean.

' Obey the Law, --- Not the Benefits Agency,  --- it doesn't feel it has to '

A   SURVEY REVEALED THAT 47 PER CENT OF OFFICES FLOUT THE LAW ON PAYMENT DEADLINES.  After a case involving one claimant, Paul Rowlett, who was dreadfully crippled with a very rare arthritic disease, the benefits Agency were ordered to pay his claim in full and on time.  Sixteen months he and his family waited, after a fire destroyed their home and left them in temporary housing.  Even when this Agency is obliged by law to carry out legislation, they feel that they can ignore it, presumably on the advice of their solicitors??

Another claimant Dave Pickett finally got a payment he was entitled to,  --- 31 months late.

' GRANTS IMPEDED BY THE BENEFITS AGENCY '

Have you ever wondered why there are so many delays in the calculating and handing out of benefits? well, it's all to do with tactics employed by benefits officers.  A tribunal member spoke out and said that the serious ill claimants are being made to wait without good reason.  The benefits agency are asking for adjournments so that they can decide who should receive them,  The argument is that officers need time to check whether there is any other way of avoiding damage to health before paying a grant.

' Retired Council Benefits Officer says 'the gaffs were overlooked'

COUNCIL WORKER Richard Fowler was eminently qualified to handle the claims in the housing and council tax department, and he thought his colleagues were the same.  However, a few months later in the position of benefits officer, he discovered mistakes were being made daily by other members of staff who used the office like a social centre.  They had papers and files in their hands and they gossiped freely, but not about the claim or the need to solve a claimant's problem; and some of those problems needed an urgent response --- which could have been dealt with if they had been on the ball.  Some of the staff lost files, and this happened because they didn't know where they had left them.  Whenever this kind of thing happened someone would say ' it will show up in somebody's tray -- we'll look at it then'.  This delays a claim and the claimant suffers all because of one civil servant, and the lack of care by senior staff.  ' I brought up the subject of gaffs and mistakes, and was told to forget them, and if I stirred things up I'd be sent to Coventry ( ignored by others in the office).  Errors occurred every week by people who were incapable of working out benefit, but that didn't bother the managers.  So long as they looked as if they were doing a job --- that was acceptable and no one questioned it.  And there was always someone who would cover you in return for a favour later.  I've done accounting for years and have systems that work, but all I saw at the council offices was incompetence.'

' COUNCIL PAYOUT OVER NEGLIGENCE '

TAUNTON DEANE COUNCIL in Somerset found themselves in court due to the inaction of one officer - tenancy relations officer, Mrs. S. Boland.  She was accused along with the council of maladministration and professional misconduct due to a decision to suspend benefit.  The council solicitor, one Ian Taylor embarked upon a familiar theme -- saying the plaintiff did not have a case, and that this action was premature, and he would seek to bring this to the court's attention.  During the nine months that followed he made attempts using the familiar  ----- Lawyer's grip on court procedure to have the case thrown out.  After failing in this he resorted to the changing of solicitors so that some sort of intimidation could take place, a sort of stealth yet bordering in the legal.  Luckily the Judge opposed these moves and could not find that the council's reason for these tactics held water and Deputy District Judge Van. Oppen found the council guilty of negligence.  The council payout was a mere £233 plus costs, and strangely due to the council having words with the local paper, the article never appeared in the press, although Phil Hill the reporter was keen to run with it earlier.  Attempts were made to get an explanation, and he ignored calls and letters.

' THE BENEFITS AGENCY BLUNDERS '

There is chaos in the Benefits Agency a leaked report tells us, but they do not seem to know or care about what it actually means.  A Government Ombudsman clearly stated that costs are spiralling due to poor administration.  The report showed that some people were being paid too much whilst others were being paid too little, and this was not being remedied because no one could sort these matters out.  A Whitehall insider said ' the mistakes can be put down mostly to human error involving relatively small sums of money, but which add up to a large amount.  Little can be done once incorrect benefits had been paid out and they hoped that benefit office staff learn from the errors and take more care next time??'

An official memo said that improved training schemes are being introduced for staff and managers have been meeting to work out foolproof methods of calculating individual claims.

' BENEFITS FRAUD INSPECTOR JAILED FOR FIT-UP '

MR DAVID VALENTINE a Benefits Fraud Inspector in Windsor hatched a plot to fabricate serious charges against another man over an affair.  Paul Eagles the victim, spent three months in the cells before being released without charge.  Using his position within the Benefits Agency, he alleged that a benefits overpayment had been made in connection with a fraudulent claim.  VALENTINE -- A FORMER POLICEMAN? turned Benefits Inspector was suitably armed with prior experience and the knowledge to fit-up Mr. Eagles --- a fact that doesn't surprise anyone who goes to the police files on this site.  Valentine conducted a campaign of violence and intimidation against Paul Eagles with the sole intention of destroying the man's reputation and life.  When the affair was discovered Maidenhead Council suspended Mr. Valentine.  Mr. eagles was exonerated from cheating the benefits system, but not before the system helped to support a lie by one of their 'trusted' civil servants?

' Benefits Office in cover-up over employee's conduct '

The situation at a Wellington Benefits Office in Somerset borders on the disbelief when it came to a complaint from claimant.  The complaint was not registered or properly investigated and arguments between the client and a manager's assistant was allowed to get very personal.  All attempts by the claimant to raise the issue of being treated unfairly were 'railroaded' and he was threatened with eviction from the office (something other offices have done in order to squash the right of a claimant).  Misuse of powers is not that rare and many of these civil servants use these tactics to cover up their mistakes and discrimination.  The claimant suddenly found himself booted out to a course of job search at a nearby centre.  For 6 weeks he had coffee, looked at papers and did the odd call, without success of a job.  Ironically, one can see that all of this was to silence him and make the problem go away.  The problem is the Benefits Agency, but their arrogance prevents them from seeing this.

' Corrupt Local Councils and the scams they indulge '

A report by David Freud, an advisor to the government says that the benefits system has been milked by the greedy and feckless, often with the collaboration of incompetent or corrupt local councils.  He says the Incapacity Benefit is leading to housing estates where most of the people are out of work on benefits, which could be for life.  He suggests that some council officers and benefits staff are steered away from examining the claims in favour of going after easier targets.  He says a good reason for this and one they should be ashamed of is, that people who are claiming incapacity benefit do not register as unemployed --- good for Government figures.  Some ministers have actually preferred to collude with a system which effectively defrauds the public he adds. 

' Council at the centre of Investments Fraud '

TORBAY COUNCIL found itself at the centre of an International Bank and Investments Fraud investigation as cops swooped to uncover the ring that operated in the seaside town of Torquay in September.  The fraud amounted to millions it was revealed.

' COUNTY COUNCILLOR IN POLICE INCIDENT '

Conservative Councillor PAULINE BUFFHAM was fined £400 for failing to stop when required by the police.  The Lincolnshire Councillor was chased by police as she sped away in her car and all attempts to slow her down failed until they employed a 'stinger'  The Police said she was driving erratically when she was spotted, she claimed that Police Constable Andy Jarvis was rude to her and she has lodged a complaint against the force.

' COUNCILLOR FINED OVER NON-COMPLIANCE '

A CHICHESTER DISTRICT COUNCILLOR Mary Green was fined £5,000 for failing to comply with an enforcement notice after failing to demolish a building that had not been granted planning permission.  It appears the councillor was at one time on the planning committee. Mr Green said of the council ' they say one thing and then change their minds, they should be held accountable for their decisions -- nobody is scrutinizing their actions. 

' The £800 a minute expenses for council committee meetings '

MP's expenses? just consider one councillor Salim Ullah who refused to comment on the allowances such as £9,698 and the fact a committee chairman gets an additional £8,609.  Mr Ullah managed ten minutes with the Appeals Committee  receiving the additional amount at a Tower Hamlets, London, meeting.  Taxpayers money funding these expenses are claimed by the council to be reasonable?

' Councillor is given a 2 year ban by colleagues '

GOSPORT COUNCILLOR PETER CHEGWIN was not amused when he found himself suspended and then banned for two years after being accused of failing to declare his interest.  The Councillor was involved with Wickham Festivals, a firm that was to provide services for a planned event.  Mr. Chegwin was the organiser, and other members said he should have declared certain facts, but did not do so at the time.

' Council staff failures create customer problems '

HAVANT COUNCIL send out forms that immediately fail on return dates deliberately to cause the claimant problems.  A form was sent to a council tax payer dated the 17th of June, it arrived 22 days later on the 9th of July, and stated that in order to avoid delays or the removal of a single occupancy discount the form must be returned within 14 days?  Even if the customer sends back the form the same day they are 8 days overdue, and this could spark off the difficulties that the customer should not have.  This problem is either deliberate or just one more inefficient error of a civil servant -- they cannot have it both ways.

' Public Incident involving Councillor who accuses council of secrecy '

COUNCILLOR DAVID HOPSON of the West Wittering Council in Sussex accused the council of secrecy and legal malpractice.  He said ' They are trying to shut me up and it's been going on for some time. I will continue to say the way in which the parish council proceeds through its working parties is unlawful'   His resignation which he wished to have cancelled was turned down and the council at the meeting declared him 'resigned' and said he was obstructing the meeting. 

What we have here is either a councillor out of sync or a councillor who is being a 'whistleblower' and the forces of corruption in the civil service are at work again to suppress the incident and defeat their enemy in any way they can --- and this is not unheard of if you have read the many cases on this site.

' MP in £100,000 Charity Funds Disappearance '

ANTHONY STEEN MP for South Hams in Devon could or would not account for missing charity funds of £100,000 said to have been lost.  The MP was unavailable for comment and the matter was said to be under investigation at the time.

' Council in parking meter charges incident '

HASTINGS COUNCIL forcibly prevented photos being taken by an irate motorist after he complained about excessive parking tariffs and excess add-ons.  he told us ' the civil servants have no intention of hearing a complaint, what they say goes, and they will not listen to reason'  The man apparently received an excess and huge charge despite the attendant being in a doorway some yards away from the meter.  The man went to complain in the council offices in the back area of the town in a grubby off road and council staff refused to see him and then objected forcibly to him brandishing a camera and taking pictures.

This certainly confirms the attitude of civil servants and the evidence gathered so far on this site.

' Council rebuked for second time by Ombudsman '

HACKNEY COUNCIL was for a second time criticised by Mr. Yardley the Ombudsman over the same thing.  The Council's social services just cannot grasp their responsibilities to claimants because as I see it, they are unwilling to take advice or work with my office as laid down by parliament '  Mrs Keeney suffered unduly at their hands and no one in the civil service cared, because they did not consider her case serious enough?  He also rebuked the Benefits Agency who stood by and did nothing while Mrs. Keeney went without vital resources.  They were ordered to pay £1,500 compensation.  ' Both you the council, and Benefits Agency, should be ashamed over the way you have acted ' he said, ' I am the second Ombudsman to have this case before me, and that is a disgrace.'

' Misrepresentation by the Benefits Agency '

A LOCAL AUTHORITIES ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE accused the Benefits Agency of making misrepresentations to the committee over the housing benefits.  Mr. Castle for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities said that councillors were extremely annoyed by the attitude of the Benefits Agency.  He accused the Agency of providing the committee with all this information without consulting a single local authority on their evidence.  He said that the Benefits Agency had misrepresented local government by not pointing out to the committee that the provision of benefits was run by local authorities in an entirely different way to the Benefits Agency offices.  The Agency had not given any indication to MP's or Councils about the diversity of services provided and the complications in paying out housing benefit to a wide range of people.

' Caring Council Couldn't care less '

COLCHESTER BOROUGH COUNCIL should be trying hard to help people in the community, but all they could do for grieving mother   Di Pritchard who lost her son, was condemn her cheaper memorial bench in favour of having her pay £700 for their 'approved ' one when she had found one for £137.  The bench is quite adequate and paid for by friends and herself, but the council couldn't care less about this or their feelings, but all too often it's the way councils do act towards the taxpayer.

' Hampshire County Council no insurance contingency '

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL faced a huge payout of up to £12million after its fire brigade was sued for tackling a blaze.  The brigade turned off a sprinkler system which could have minimized the damage at Capital and Counties Plc.  The giant digital computer firm took the council to court seeking the payout.  Hampshire County Council which funds the fire brigade admitted they had no insurance to pay compensation.  It estimated its liability was up to £5m and were considering an appeal while legal representatives try to agree a figure.

' COUNCIL OVERSTEPS IT'S MANDATE '

WYRE BOROUGH COUNCIL apologised to a couple after reporting them to police after cops had to payout Joe and Helen Roberts for oppressive behaviour.  The couple had dared to write to their local council about certain leaflets that were sent to residents.  They said one of the equality officers had reported the couple to the police and we now recognise that a fundamental weakness of procedures went wrong in this case.  We now insist that more than one officer looks at a case before action -- we apologise for the mishandling of this matter.'

' Arrested Councillor claims he is above the Law '

AVON COUNTY COUNCILLOR TIMOTHY COLLINS thought his standing as Police Authority boss would carry the day when the Avon and Somerset Police pulled over the car in which he was a passenger.  The driver was found to be drunk, but Mr. Collins tried to intervene saying he was the son of the Chief Constable.  ' You don't know who you are dealing with, I am with the Police Authority '   Collins was handcuffed and charged and found guilty of threatening violence towards police officers.

' Council found negligent still denies liability '

CORBY BOROUGH COUNCIL was found guilty by the court of negligence in a case brought by the parents of deformed children who were affected after toxic waste was linked to the council site.  For ten years the council knew about the waste at the depot but refused to heed warnings or complaints.  The judge agreed their was a link to the children's' deformities due to the exposure the tip provided.  He allowed compensation claims to go ahead against the council from several families. 

THE COUNCIL intends to appeal and challenge the decision and still denies they were responsible, which of course is not unusual --- council denial is the first course their Lawyers insist upon, they rarely own up to maladministration, wrongdoing or corruption as you have already seen on this site.

' COUNCIL EXECUTIVE GOES TO JAIL '

WIGAN BOROUGH COUNCIL BOSS NADINE WAKELAM was found guilty of defrauding the council of almost £200,000.  Liverpool Crown Court sentenced the 'compulsive shopper ' to two years imprisonment.  She and her husband (a council finance manager) enjoyed joint salaries bringing in £70,000 per annum.  The council boss created 62 fraudulent invoices for work and fictional services.  For a long time no one thought to challenge the invoices and because of her seniority, they treated them as official and paid out as a matter of course. Her husband John Wakelam was accused of money laundering and abetting his wife, the jury could not agree on a majority and they cleared him.

' Dirty work by Hounslow Benefits Office '

After 18 months, a tribunal decided that the Benefits Office had acted unfairly in the case of claimant, Pamela Richmond.  She had been denied her widow's allowance payments to the amount of a £1,000.  Staff continually made her life hell with the games they only know too well that they put their victims through.  The rules could be moved according to their whims and if they so decided, as they did in her case, she failed every time as they concocted stories and interpreted the regulations to such a bizarre and perverse way.  A spokesperson at a local Law Centre said ' they have fabricated things to fit the rule book and have invented a claim that she owes them money, which of course is completely untrue '   The only way forward for Pamela was to go to a tribunal to get her money back, -- which would involve costs far out of her reach, and the Benefits Office already knew that and used it to their advantage.  It was obvious that their claim she owed them money was invented at a higher level and backed by unscrupulous solicitors for the department.  Luckily our story ends well for Pamela, -- The Hounslow Workers Support Unit funded the bill after hearing the injustice, and at the tribunal  The Benefits Office were ordered to pay her all monies and back payments.  The Benefits Office were unavailable for comment?

' A Council where transparency is a word not to be taken seriously '

HAVANT COUNCIL is run by the Tories, you might think they would be open and accountable after the expenses scandal of 2009, but no, despite playing 'we shall have transparency in government card' they actually dismiss it as being of no consequence.  Tory councillor Tony Biggs agreed to having the public barred at a meeting with Capita and for the session to be in private.  There was no sensitive information to be discussed said Mr.Hart - leader of the Havant Labour Party, so why the secrecy? because they have learnt nothing from being caught in the corruption fraud.  They intend to go on doing business as they did before the scandal.

The meeting concerned £50m on public services in the hands of Capita, public money, held in secret?

' Job training rip-off was known by Blair many years ago '

Millions of pounds have been made by so called job training centres and companies.  Tony Blair knew this in the late 1990's and chose to ignore it.  £180m was paid out to organise 'phantom jobs and training courses' according to the Audit Office.  £22m was paid out for training which didn't take place.  A great deal of money was never accounted for and inaccuracies were covered-up so that no individual civil servant could be traced.  Hundreds of youngsters were sent to do phoney jobs.  One firm turned out machine parts which ended on the scrapheap, they were not needed or ordered.  A spokesman defended the activities as ' as long as they get quality training that's fine,'

' Lack of accountability in Benefits system '

MR. PETER BARCLAY of the Government Watchdog committee who looks into reforms in the welfare system claimed that the lack of transparency and accountability in the housing benefits system was down to the government refusing to answer for administration failings.  This being because local authorities handled the applications -- ' council departments are staffed by people that do not follow the guidelines they should -- or feel have to.'

' The Councillor's squalid secret '

MARTIN RICHARDS was a Woodspring Councillor who was in the running for mayor.  He claimed that he was in favour of better housing and had this as his campaign leader.  Yet he was later exposed as having a crumbling Victorian tenement in the centre of Weston - super - Mare in Somerset.  Most of his tenants lived in squalor but he never mentioned this as he paraded around the area seeking votes.  He resigned after it was decided that his membership could be self serving in relation to grants on housing -- particularly his own.

' Homes of the old seized by Councils abusing their powers ' 

COUNCILS ARE TARGETING THE PENSIONERS AND VULNERABLE in order to grab their homes in an easy snatch made possible by John Prescott MP.  This raucous and objectionable northerner obviously has little regard for people who have saved for years to buy their homes.  In interviews he openly shows his more common side and appears to use this to get his way by shouting others down.  Recent Tribunal papers have revealed that councils attitudes have been aggressive and overzealous.  What is most amusing about the report is their defence to the actions of seizing pensioners houses -- ' We only step in when a homeowner has been unwilling to cooperate, the seizure is approved by the Residential Property Tribunal so that the house can be let to council tenants and the rent is passed to the owner --- after the council has covered its costs?? '

Have you ever seen their costs?  you'll be lucky to get anything after they have dreamed up all sorts of admin costs, most of them invented in order to claw in as much cash as possible.

' How many council vans are needed to deliver info to one crescent?'

HAVANT BOROUGH COUNCIL used three vans, three people and spent over one hour in a single crescent delivering info on waste disposal.  Most of the time was spent chatting by these officials.  One arrived using the flashing light as if he thought he was a cop.  The building is multi occupational, but only a few hundred yards long.  How much did this cost, -- we will never know?  One thing we do know is -- most of what they delivered will be thrown away in their own bins.   Crescent inhabitants have no time for the council or abide by any of their rules, and the council have known this for years.

' Bumper pay-offs and civil servants '

A RECENT ARTICLE mentions pay-offs and perks for civil servants.  It says  on an average redundancy pay-offs are around £60,000.  The taxpayers Alliance rightly says that these civil servants have been enjoying this kind of thing for far too long.  But there is one further problem about this -- Councils will not allow a mere individual to look at their financial structure or tell them anything without calling in the security to evict the member of public or get their council solicitor to deny access by way of secrecy being pertinent to his job allowing no one without authorisation to look at anything.  He will quote Data Protection and Information restrictions, anything that will make the enquirer feel uncomfortable or unable to go any further.  Lawyers are like this at the councils as we have already shown in the section ' FEATURED LAWYERS -- see ' Lawyer threatens Pensioner '

' Civil servants make sure they benefit the most '

CIVIL SERVANTS ARE TO GET BEST PENSIONS IN GENEROUS TAXPAYER TOP UP.  This report by the Pricewaterhouse Group of Economists claim the evidence shows that they will get a 35 per cent top up on their final pensions.  The generous self payment will make public sector workers nicely catered for compared to the private sector which looks to be in great trouble pension-wise.  Ros Altmann a former Treasury Pensions Advisor said ' it will be a rising burden on the taxpayer '

' Government lies on youth jobs, supported by the DWP '

THE GOVERNMENT MINISTER DWP said in a recent statement, that the nearly one million youth element of the unemployed will all have guaranteed jobs?  But How? she says that they have catered for 100,000 and have 40,000 places in training schemes.  Claims that Industry in the shape of 150 companies are on board to help in this matter.  The sums do not add up.  If those 150 companies hired 10 each it would only fill 1500, if it was 100 each they could take on, it would be 15,000.  So, taking her claims it would still only add up to 155,000, and as we are looking at nearly one million, it shows the government are hopeless at maths, which might indicate how bad they run the country.  Yet, they did alright in their expenses fiddle -- they knew what added up then --- especially as it went into their own pockets.  If one moved the youth unemployed figure by half, there would still be a deficit of huge proportions.  It is clear to see that the DWP believe in their own lies.  But they are masters in deception -- just look at the Lawyers they employ.

' Data Protection and the Corrupt Councils '

It's interesting to note that councils demand the full if not prying information details from benefit claimants, self employed and others.  They also claim to be 'honest' data controllers.  yet, they pass around information to all and a sundry whether they be Government or private firms who request an under the counter favour, --- it's more in the line of 'abusing the police computer regulations ' thing, except there is no crime where the council is concerned, they are immune from prosecution.  Any of their civil servants can claim to be 'data controllers' so that shows you how safe the act is, --riddled with holes and fully absorbed in corrupt practices.  Simon Davies of Privacy International said 'some of these council activities regarding using and giving out data should be prohibited, particularly in regard to information passed to bailiffs '  He says these creeping allowances and misuse of legislation is beyond the remit of a council and would not be approved of by the voters and taxpayers.  It is rather strange that a council such as Havant in Hampshire or Chichester can order that they see someone's full accounts and books, yet they deny the citizen a right to see their books, which could be another sign of them hiding facts or false accounting -- but they are probably allowed to do this under Brown's corrupt government.

' MP's use taxpayer's money to boost profits for themselves '

THE EXPENSES SCAM has not been the whole story according to a recent report.  MP's have been profiting from taxpayer-funded mortgages claimed on a regular basis despite the expenses fiddle.  Sir John Stanley admitted that Parliamentary colleagues were making huge gains due to these mortgage claims.  Former Environment Minister Barry Gardiner made a profit of £198,500 on a taxpayer funded second home.  Millionaire Tory Greg Barker made a £320,000 profit on a flat the taxpayer 'helped him to buy'  Sir John said the few cases he could reveal were only the tip of the iceberg -- under the system at present MP's get mortgage interest on their second home reimbursed by the taxpayer.  He also said ' they get major outgoings like council tax, gas and electricity charges paid by the taxpayer'  Over many years MP's have been making hundreds of thousands of pounds as a result of fleecing the taxpayer in any way they could whilst claiming to be honest and law abiding!

' False promises and shortcomings by the Tax Credits Department '

THE UNDERTAKINGS BY CIVIL SERVANTS AT THE TAX CREDITS CENTRE WERE PROVEN TO BE FALSE as we are now informed by a claimant who was assured that any back payments would be taken into account at the date claimed.  This did not happen although the claimant was repeatedly told that his claim would be automatically backdated to the point of his claim.  When he received his overdue tax credit allowance it left out four weeks and this in effect was ignored by the civil servants who told him not to worry.  The phone centre proved to be inadequate, and this call in customer centre was supposed to cut time and veer anyone away from lengthy appeals.  The claimant therefore had to appeal against the award, and several months later was told he was entitled to the back claim.  This all goes to show how incompetent this department is and the glib lies they tell clients.  Closely related to the DWP, one can see how the corruption spreads from one government department to another. 

' Former Civil Servant admits that staff enjoyed bullying claimants '

MRS. P we shall call her as she does not want to be identified -- we did try to change her mind.  Mrs. P has worked in the civil service for twenty-three years and says she has witnessed many things that management would not like exposed.  In the council she came across staff who would conspire together to target particular claimants they had listed that had been difficult!  Some of the ways of intimidating them were simple ploys such as making them wait much longer than anyone else, and then tell them they could not find the particular file and make another appointment.  Another ploy was to deliberately go over old ground and say that they had not received clarification therefore there would be some delay, when in fact they had taken the form out of the file along with the proof and put it in a drawer.  When she worked at the Jobcentre she said she herself took part in making clients lives a misery because several other members of staff found the game too irresistible to pass up on.  They all knew how vulnerable a claimant was and that they had no power of redress if they complained -- ' It was their word against ours  --- and we won every time '

' Hinckley and Bosworth Council blamed for Terrorized Suicide pair '

The coroner for the Leicestershire district said that failings in the council contributed to the deaths of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter Francecca.  The two women had been the target of yobs who made their lives hell and not worth living.  The council knew who were the offenders yet did little in the way of real protection.  Gang activities happened frequently outside the victims home.  33 complaints were made, the inquest heard that a gang of sixteen youths roamed the area without any fear of police or council officials.  The police were also implicated in the contributory charges that arose from this incident.

' Slight of hand -- fiddle of expenses again with MP's'

Yes, the Government civil servants are at it again and have been all along while the distraction of the other fraudulent expenses fiddle has made headline news.  Openness and trust is a joke and the recent programme 'Dispatches' revealed that when they tried to follow the expenses trail of MP's flying off on trips abroad.  Try as they did, the researchers found it almost impossible to get proper accounting or answers as to why some of these MP's were making so many trips abroad.  Thousands of pounds were being claimed and paid out under the guise of 'working for their constituents'  Much of what they showed could hardly be said to be in the interest of constituents -- some living on the breadline.  But living in fancy hotels and jetting around at the taxpayers expense must be appealing and better than having a job?

' The Council Tax Scam '

COUNCILS ARE RELYING  ON FINES to boost funds for mainstream objectives already guaranteed in their programs.  Car Parking has been highlighted as a major part of this fiddle.  The public are led to believe that all services to the public have been budgeted for ----by these civil servants who are thought to possess the highest skills in this area of serving the people of their borough or area.  Councils bandy about false pledges of no one being unfairly treated, but this is obviously a lie.  Nowhere in the funding is there a clause saying we must have fines to provide a proper service, fines were supposed to be a deterrent against breaking rules, but the council are depending on as many people as possible to break the rules so things can be supported in their finance aims.  Surely this is double edged and morally dishonest, but councils are, that's why they don't open their books to public scrutiny.

' Benefits Staff lose £900million through it's own errors '

CIVIL SERVANTS in the Benefits Agencies lose a staggering £900m due to their own incompetence it was revealed in the Appeals Court.  This was exposed after losing a legal battle over forcing claimants who'd been overpaid to repay it.  Solicitors for the DWP had no legal right to threaten because a 1992 Act did not give them the right.  The judge ruled that the Benefits Agency could not force harassed and distressed claimants to hand back money wrongly paid due to staff blunders.  This ruling came after a two year court battle.  It was revealed that claimants were threatened with County Court Action by solicitors for the DWP --- see featured Lawyers for more on this disturbing case.

' Council Security Guards used in Suppressing Free Speech '

A report has shown that many councils use security staff to suppress public enquiries that the council find too difficult to reply to.  Such as misuse of taxpayers cash and corruption on building contracts.  The security guards are regarded as civil servants but see themselves as the police.  Many have criminal records that are secretly covered over and if found out -- it was a mistake that was overlooked.  As we said --- transparency and freedom of information is not the truth, and these employees -- the guards, have no interest in serving the public,  --- the public beyond the council and government offices.

' Cover-up as Council influence stops Newspaper from publishing expose '

TAUNTON DEANE COUNCIL AND THE SOMERSET GAZETTE in conspiracy to pull a scoop story by reporter.  The story concerning a court action against the council that lasted nine months -- one in which the council lost, was suddenly pulled without explanation.  The reporter had approached the plaintiff after he had learned of the case via a 'postbag letter' and gave assurances that he would not give in to external pressure or let the council prevent the story appearing.  When the story failed to appear the plaintiff went to the Gazette for an explanation.  He was denied this and they refused to let him talk with the reporter who was now absent.  It was later discovered that the council spokeswoman who was in charge of press releases was indeed a regular friend of the Gazette Reporter and he knew of her well.  This case shows that the Press are not always to be trusted and that they claim falsely to be free to print the facts without undue influence.  A conspiracy to suppress the truth was entered into by the Somerset Gazette and Council Officials when they knew the story was not favourable to themselves -- and it might go down badly with the public.

STRANGELY AS IT MAY SEEM, the above story is not just a small newspaper thing  --- we have learned that the biggies like the Sunday People, Sunday Mail, News of the World are selective when it comes to exposes and council confrontations are mostly steered away from no matter how good the story is.

' Civil Servants turn a blind eye over MP's expenses '

A recent report concerning the expenses scandal shows that many civil servants trusted with examining claims did very little to curb  outrageous claims by ignoring 90 per cent of them and paying them out with almost zero scrutiny.  Basic checks were abandoned in favour of showing their bosses how loyal they were.  The staff were indeed not only nice to their employer but generous as well, they did not query claims or see if the claims were justified at the Department of Resources.  Their role in the scandal was suppressed and it was only when a request under the Freedom of Information revealed how devious the department and the staff had been.

' Poole Borough Council in Excessive Covert Spying Incident '

CIVIL SERVANTS of the Poole Borough Council spent weeks at the cost of the taxpayer hounding and snooping into the life an affairs of Jenny Paton using powers granted by the Labour Government.  It was found they wrongly suspected the woman of lying and arbitrarily set out to trap her, but failed.   Businesswoman Jenny branded the council's behaviour as outrageous at a tribunal looking into the matter.

' Council Town Workers numbering 20,000 snoop on people '

IT HAS BEEN REVEALED THAT AROUND 20,000 CIVIL SERVANTS HAVE BEEN GRANTED THE POWER TO ENTER THE HOME WITHOUT A WARRANT  -- Council snoopers have assumed the power to enter people's homes without gaining a warrant in the search for information.  They are relying on secondary legislation using energy laws and safety etc to bolster their aggressive and arrogant behaviour granted by the Labour Government who passed 1,043 state powers of entry.  The Public Right to Privacy which Brown was so keen to back is worthless and it is a fact that Mr.Brown knew of it, but continues to keep silent and distant from his own contradictions to the British Public and taxpayers.

' The civil servant who rakes in £310,000 in just one year '

High flier? NO...just a guy who-- a civil servant who works with the UK Border Security Force, yes that is Azad Ootam who gets a nice slice of taxpayers cash.  Described as a ' middle manager' this individual even managed to make the bonus scandal look rather cheap, -- he was unavailable for comment and the Agency merely stated it was all within government guidelines?

' Civil servants pay themselves £130 million in bonuses '

A REPORT HAS REVEALED THAT THE TAXPAYER HAS PAID OUT OVER £130 MILLION TO CIVIL SERVANTS in one year.  The payments have been claimed in bonus schemes they have eagerly subscribed to above their normal job salaries.  Apart from regular government staff, management have been quick to seize the opportunity to get their hands on cash handouts for all sorts of lame and invented reasons.

BREAKING NEWS -- ' COUNCIL OFFICIAL IN PORN CASE '

BOURNEMOUTH COUNCIL'S LEADER STEPHEN McGLOUGHLIN has been found to have explicit porn on his office laptop computer.  The council have said it was no more than it expected, yet twenty other council civil servants were suspended over a joke which involved a porn image by the same council in a former incident.

BOURNEMOUTH DEPUTY LEADER JOHN BEASLEY has been accused of ' Conflict of Interest' concerning a favour who it is said he gave preference in a business contract issued by the council.  His case is at the moment pending according to news sources.

WE BEGIN THE UPDATE;

' THE PYRAMID OF DECEIT AND LIES '

THIS REPORT COMES IN VIA OUR COLLEAGUES AT DWP CORRUPTION - The story was for all to see on the web.  It is a story of secrecy, corrupting power and deceit that government engages in.  ' THE ADELPHI HOUSE CONNECTION ' and John Adam St in London.  The Article (which can be seen in full on the web and on the DWP CORRUPTION Website) reveals the shady movements and behaviour surrounding MARSHALL WACE LLP - Rod Aldridge forced to resign overexposed secret loans, and BEAR GYLLIS caught fabricating documents.  There is mentions of a secret 'private members' club under Adam St run and owned by JAMES MINTER.  What of ADELPHI HOUSE?  THAT'S WHERE THE DEPARTMENT OF WORK AND PENSIONS IS LOCATED -- are you beginning to see things now?

' The Cabinet Minister who said - ' We do tell lies '

FORMER CABINET MINISTER WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE, then a senior minister claimed that ministers have the right to lie to MP's.  He caused a storm of protest of course as he said this as he was questioned by the Treasury Committee.  This statement shocked all and made any claims of running a honest government absolute nonsense.  His statement savagely tore into the so-called rules for ministers and centuries of parliamentary practice ( not entirely new -- see the South Sea Bubble affair of the 1700's at the top of the page).

' Labour MP under Investigation '

West Lancashire MP Colin Picktall aide to Jack Straw came under police investigations concerning financial discrepancies.  He was questioned by detectives over his election spending.  A file was said to have been passed to the CPS, but nothing was ever heard of it again?

'  The Crooked Civil Servants '

INDEED, A HEADLINE SAID THIS VERY THING -- It claimed that civil servants and Whitehall staff were defrauding the taxpayer.  £9million was said to be the cost and that this was just the tip of the iceberg.  Frauds were being committed by departmental and agency staff, especially where they have colluded with outsiders.  Intriguing though it might be it was revealed that quangos, and there are many many such things set up by government, are not compelled to report fraud within their own body to the Treasury.  Millions go missing and unaccounted for in this way and civil servants have the gall to claim poverty and mistreatment by the very public that are unable to stop council chiefs, council lawyers etc of having huge salaries and claiming bogus expenses.

' Council tax rebate Scam '

We come across many cases of council staff messing up tax rebates that have been claimed by people sending in the annual bill in one lump sum, then having to claim two or three months overpaid.  HAVANT BOROUGH COUNCIL features here as one council that abuses this (though there are many others).  A claimant who mailed us said they paid the whole bill and left before the year were owed two months.  The council then went onto ignore the claimant as if they did not exist.  One can easily see that by ignoring the claim they the council, benefit from not paying a rebate out.  But when they overpay, it's straight to their council legal department and lawyer with intentions to put that person before the court.  Council solicitors are a murky lot, and as we have already seen in the bent lawyers section -FEATURED LAWYERS - are ready to threaten and bully ordinary people whenever they feel like it.  They often have an understanding with certain district judges and come out on top - and who is surprised at that?  The council knows the claimant will eventually get tired of phoning or writing for that matter and quit.  We know for a fact that councils like Bournemouth, Chichester and Arun act similar when having claims for rebates lodged by claimants seeking money.

' Long-running benefit swindles by civil servants '

COUNCIL OFFICIALS HAVE ROBBED TAXPAYERS out of £650,000, and the swindle went unchecked.  This was a report into a labour run town hall.  THIRTEEN EMPLOYEES WERE SACKED, THIRTY-THREE RESIGNED and FOUR WERE GIVEN FINAL WARNINGS.  Scores of false housing and council tax benefit claims were uncovered by Hammersmith and Fulham Council.  All 50 civil servants faced disciplinary proceedings and some of the worst cases were prosecuted.  At the time of the report it was said that there were still 28 more cases under investigation.  The fraud was said to have been in operation for several years showing that the corruption was deep and for most of the time well hidden.  Earlier checks had been thwarted by restrictions in the Data Protection Act that wasn't supposed to be an aid to covering up staff corruption a spokesperson said, ' but employees saw it as a defence and used it after council lawyers suggested it.'

' Benefits Agency in £2million fiddle by staff '

Released figures made public by Mark Harper, Shadow Minister, revealed that taxpayers have been defrauded out of £2 million by benefit cheats within The Department of Work and Pensions.  Of course, this is not the first time, we have mentioned other such fraud in the Benefits Agency on this page.  Most of the fraud involves expenses fiddling, fraudulent overtime claims and theft of DWP property (this was not specified or detailed in the report).  Jonathan Shaw of the DWP made the usual attempts to play this down, even in the light of a rise in fraud within the Department.  Last year in 2009, forty-two civil servants were identified in investigations.  £216,149 was estimated to have been lost through other fraud not specified, and this involved 156 members of staff. 

' CASH-FOR-ACCESS SCANDAL NETS THREE MP'S '

YES, here we go again, it never stops even though they tell us that it will.  STEVEN BYARS, PATRICIA HEWITT and GEOFF HOON are all seen on a programme that catches them selling their lobbying expertise and boasts of being able to amend the law by having a discreet word with the right man as part of the service they can offer.  Byars lied and fibbed, but still wants £5,000 a day if he works for the right clients.  The other two quoted £3,000 a day, rather a bargain eh to get your own way and have an MP swing the deal or vote in your favour.  Deceit by this government will never be over, history shows this, it's in their genes!!

IN 1995 ' THE CASH-FOR-QUESTIONS' SCANDAL' hit the headlines bringing down two Tory MP's GRAHAM RIDDICK and DAVID TREDINNICK who asked for £1,000 payments as backhanders for Commons Questions.

' 20 More MP's break rules on lobbying and foreign expenses '

THE REGULATIONS WERE BREACHED 400 TIMES by 20 members of parliament.  MP Andrew Digmore breached the rules more than 90 times over trips to Cyprus.  MP Liam Fox breached the rules twice.  MP Norman Baker broke the rules 37 times, and Tory Vice Chairman Richard Spring failed to register a trip to Mauritius before asking four questions in the House about Britain' relations with the Island.  They all enjoyed ' expenses-paid' trips and their foreign hosts paid for the hospitality.  Yet declaring this as they should took another dive and as usual they made no mention of it.

' COUNCILLOR IS SUSPENDED '

COUNCILLOR ANDY SUTTON on the Isle of Wight was given a six month suspension for irregular activities regarding planning regulations, he was said to have been involved with four un-named individuals.

' Government training financial Rip-Off '

A REPORT BY THE NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE admitted that as much as £22million has disappeared on courses that simply did not exist.  None of it cannot be accounted for despite words and phrases of ' transparency ' and ' the Freedom of Information' bandied about and uttered by desperate civil servants.  One aspect ' Fake Jobs' was an issue with a County Training Council in Essex that took on 900 jobless people to make parts which eventually ended up on the scrap heap.

' Benefits Fraud Squad accused of Harassment and Intimidation by Benefits Office '

LOCAL BENEFITS STAFF IN BODMIN gave out leaflets to claimants accusing the Benefits Fraud Team of bullying, harassment and intimidation.  Bosses were annoyed at the lack of loyalty, yet staff stood by their accusations and said investigators wrote their own rules, acted outside the law and thought themselves beyond it.

' Claimants Ignored and blamed for Benefits Errors '

INCOMPETENT STAFF IN BENEFITS OFFICES are getting one third of benefits decisions wrong according to the Child Poverty Action Group.  Its report says that almost a third of claims are incomplete or just wrong are the fault of civil servants who add to the misery of the claimant.  When challenged, the Benefits Agency disagree and put the blame on the client claiming they do not make errors, it's the claimant's fault!

' No prosecutions for corrupt office staff '

A LEAKED MEMO has revealed that a number of staff at a Benefits Office in Greater London have been guaranteed that no action will be taken by bosses in respect of irregularities in claims and unaccounted cash paid out.  The deal is said to have been made with the union so that good relations may continue to exist.  The offences surround claims that collusion and certain arrangements resulted in managerial and others receiving under the counter payments.  Apparently, the decision to take no action has been taken by the DWP because they consider the fraud to be ' low-level' which can be handled at Office level discreetly?

' Bennington - another job creation fiasco '

YET ANOTHER NAME TO ADD TO THE LIKES OF A4E AND CDG who have all been contracted by the DWP who claim to be helping the jobless back into work.  The DWP are very liberal with their contracts and taxpayers cash and accounting for it requires no effort, their lawyers can fabricate or falsify something or other!  Bennington like the others engages in this ' classroom' type situation whilst leaving others who have been inducted and move up the board, go into another room - scanning papers for vacancies '  All these people are sent by the Jobcentres for a number of specified weeks -- and only a tiny few ever successfully get an actual job.  Others return to the merry-go-round and their former position - waiting for it all to start again.  While these people are at Bennington's the DWP and Jobcentre Plus fiddle the jobless figures and create a nonsense that is almost impossible to make sense of.  It all boils down to this in truth - we take 10 claimants -- 6 go to Bennington, and now we only have 4, so that makes 4 unemployed, and that is how the government work the fiddle.

' LORD ASHCROFT and the TAX FIDDLE '

LORD MICHAEL ASHCROFT has benefited from an ideal tax situation in the U.K. for almost a decade thanks to the way the Tories and Government Officials act.  Political Reporter, Nick Robinson describes him as ' secretive' in the way he hid his tax status.  Yet this man has a big part in the laws of this country -- but does not live here and does very nicely tax-wise due to being ' non-dom' which effectively allows him to pay no tax.  You may think that this is something new, but it isn't, it has happened before.  The Lords and MP's have done quite well in tax avoidance.  Millionaire John Cahill, formerly of British Aerospace didn't pay a penny of tax in his twelve week job -- and collected a £10million golden handshake on his retirement -- he earned £530,000 a year --for two years, not bad eh? Privilege has its rewards, and where have we heard that word before? Lawyers maybe?

CONTINUED ACCUSATIONS OF CORRUPTION surround Lord Ashcroft, including a police investigation into dealings at his home base abroad. A Panorama Programme was halted by Lord Ashcroft's Lawyers who pull every trick they can to avoid allegations being proved via TV detection. It came out in the programme that finally got shown -- that unexplained and dubious dealings were unearthed amid denials by Ashcroft who seemed to have invented complicated smoke-screens to confuse the public aided and abetted skilfully by his lawyers.

' Immigration staff rake in bonuses as they bungle benefits '

IMMIGRATION STAFF AND OFFICIAL RECEIVED £15MILLION from bonuses paid by the taxpayer amid a report revealing that asylum seekers had received too much in benefit allowance.  An audit showed that nearly £10million was mistakenly paid out in housing benefit and allowances.  Payments even continued after their cases were dealt with.  These figures were conveniently buried away by Home Office staff and the size of the problem or how many years the blunder has been going on for was withheld.  It has also been revealed that ' Department Officials have written off the money because of ' legal obstacles' -- is that a quaint way of saying lawyers? 

' Immigration Officer sent to jail for corruption '

BENJAMIN ORORARO an Immigration Officer from Kennington in London was jailed for five years at Croydon Crown Court, when he was found guilty of accepting £50,000 to enable 19 people to be granted residency. He worked at the UK Border Agency and it was heard that he fiddled documents to make sure the 19 who should have been refused, stayed on in the UK.  He was convicted on 19 counts of taking bribes.

' Line Manager at Immigration Office is jailed '

IMMIGRATION OFFICER SAMUEL SHOYEJU was said to have let in as many as 44 illegal immigrants --- He amended and destroyed records to cover up and used colleagues date-stamps and accessed secure data network bases in order to show a trasil away from himself if anyone got suspicious.  He was jailed for seven years by Basildon Crown Court.   The UK Border Agency said they had great trust in him as a public servant and having broken that, the sentence reflected how serious it regarded his actions. Shoyeju was form Canvey Island in Essex. The investigation and case were said to have cost the taxpayer a great deal of money.

' Expenses Scandals come and go - they never go away '

POLITICIANS HOPE THAT NO-ONE REMEMBERS THEIR FIDDLES AND SCAMS, but they have happened over and over again.  Take the one about DAVID WEEKS MP and MILES YOUNG MP, both Tories.  They were in London's Westminster Council, and these two spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers money saying that they had done nothing wrong and it was within the rules.  At the time, Westminster council was embroiled in a £21miilion scandal over using public money to boost Tory votes with housing deals for yuppies.  Mr. Weeks was dropped as leader when auditors implicated him in the scam.  His successor Miles Young just carried on where Weeks left off.  These MP's learn nothing.  The first thing that Young did was to have a lavish party funded by the taxpayer costing then £1,100. He considered the public purse like his own spending money and expenses were truly milked for all that it had.

' M.O.D. Civil Servant got a £84,000 bonus as a consultant '

DEFENCE CONSULTANT ARCHIE HUGHES merely a public servant to the government received a £84,000 bonus as an extra payment for his on top of his basic pay of £155,000 per year.  In 2009 he received a bonus of £126,000 for running the department despite its many failings.  It's certainly an eye-opener when you are completely aware that the Government value an individual on minimum pay at just over £5 an hour.

' Harriet Harman MP tries to cover up expenses claims '

THE MP HARRIET HARMAN APPROACHED THE WATCHDOG COMMITTEE AND TRIED TO PREVENT THEM FROM EXPOSING OTHER MP'S IN THE SCANDAL. She put pressure on the Commons Watchdog not to reveal the worst cases of claimed expenditure.  Sit Thomas Legg who was conducting the audit was approached by Harman who said it would be inappropriate  to make certain things known.

390 MP's, almost half of the House, were ordered to pay back into the £1million that should be repaid. 

FIVE MP's were given one week to pay back more than £50,000 in over-claimed expenses.

FOUR MP'S CLAIMED TO BE ABOVE THE LAW when they cited a clause in the Bill of Rights - 1689. They were DAVID CHAYTOR - ELLIOT MORLEY - JIM DEVINE and LORD HANNINGFIELD.  They immediately consulted eminent QC's who incidentally suggested this move -- and they like being above the law as we have already shown in ' the featured lawyers' part of this site.  All four are intent on defeating the interpretation of the Theft act, and like their lawyers, convinced they will, and in all events that's how it will probably go.

Finally to end this update we have one item on Tony Blair ?

' Corruption surrounds Blair in Iraq Oil Dealing '

TONY BLAIR in his earlier years was honing his image and future career in Durham.  One Birmingham University Doctor who knew him very well said ---- ' He was never very likeable, and you never trust a snake do you?'

Blair was secretly hired as an advisor by the U.I. Energy Corporation who have invested heavily in the oil fields of Northern Iraq.  Mohammad Tofiq Rahim, a Deputy leader in Iraq has called for an investigation into possible corruption.  He quantifies this by mentioning that the Korean Corporation needs concessions desperately in these oil fields, and Tony Blair is excellently placed politically -- in that he can easily call on Jalni Talibani, the President of Iraq for a favour.  Also supporting the suspicion further is that Ashti Hawrami the man in charge of awarding oil exploration contracts in Iraq, is under investigation by the Financial Services Authority.  It has also emerged that Hawrami recently met with Kyu-Sun Choi, Chairman of the U.I. Energy Corporation who served two years in prison for bribery?

' 25,000 civil servants are paid over £100,000 a year '

A REPORT into pay at local councils has stated that 25,000 public paid workers are getting in the excess of £100,000 a year, and it goes onto say that 5000 others are on £150,000, whilst the Government are telling the low paid that they must cut back and live on what they already have without any expectancy of a wage increase for up to a couple of years.  Apparently, the Taxpayers Alliance has damned this greed and called for austerity within government departments.  It also says this information had to be prised out of the government using the Freedom of Information Act.

' Expenses Scandal MP's get £1million handshakes to go '

Fiddling MP's involved in the 'Expenses Scandal' will receive a nice payout as they share in a £153 million pot for standing down at the General Election.  They will receive around a £1million each consisting of generous pension allowances and other perks no other person, and I mean the average voter, could ever aspire to in their working lifetime.  Many of these fraudsters and fiddlers were prepared to face the voters, and we know why.

' COUNCIL PAY OUT OVER NEGLIGENCE '

CORBY DISTRICT COUNCIL have agreed to a compensation payout after being found guilty of negligence.  Payouts were made to 19 victims because they failed to clear up an old steelworks site that could have been dangerous and a health risk to children.  Toxic waste led to disabled children and the High Court made the council apologise besides the compensation.

' DWP defend their handing out of £4,500 grant to set up Psychics School '

THE DEPARTMENT OF WORK AND PENSIONS came under attack as critics of the payments to set up a school for psychics were branded as 'a disgrace and waste of public money '  A spokesman defending the action said it came under their 'Want2Work' ideas.  However, the Welsh Assembly chiefs have launched an internal investigation into the funding of this school especially looking to ' who is going to benefit from it and is it in the public interest'.

' THE CRIMINAL RECORDS BUREAU PAYOUT OVER SMEARS '

CIVIL SERVANTS WORKING AT THE CRB HAVE WRONGLY BRANDED 15,000 PEOPLE AS CRIMINALS - It has been paying compensation to the innocents who have had a difficult time even trying to get justice and has already paid out £290,000 of taxpayers cash in apology payments -- and this only refers to 2009.  Most of the mistakes have been made by staff who processed the wrong details got ' mixed up ' in what information was to be used.  A CRB spokesman said they had paid out tens of thousands of pounds and admitted to maladministration by the bureau.  Campaigners for freedom said that the careless attitude with data by civil servants showed their ignorance and arrogance towards the Data Protection Act when it involved ordinary citizens -- yet when it came to councils they fiercely defended their rights to data and anyone wanting information from them ' their solicitors get really defensive and refer you to the freedom of information act and bandy about how they cannot impart anything unless it is requested through the right department, yet here they are messing up people's lives and making them go through time consuming appeals to clear their names all because they did the wrong, and they just walk around pretending nothing has happened.'

' One man spends thousands on a war against Council over parking ticket '

SUNDERLAND COUNCIL have met a foe that is spending almost everything to fight them with in a legal battle in the HIgh Court.  Neil Herron is disputing a £60 ticket issued against him regarding a Controlled Parking Zone, and Neil  argues that the law says it must be marked by yellow lines.  He claims that because they made changes the tickets have become invalid -- Sunderland Council disagree.  The case started in 2006, and he managed to win a judicial review and will be at the High Court in May.

' Council and Government snooping is on the up '

LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS are making six applications a day to spy on citizens it has been revealed.  1,166 applications by government and the police were granted.  The UK is listed as third in the top ten of countries prepared to spy and snoop into the private affairs of individuals.  They already spy on internet users accessing e-mails, accounts and passwords.  Phil Booth of the NO21D  Privacy Campaign said ' they are absolutely determined to gain access to people's most sensitive details claiming that in certain cases is necessary - but avoid close scrutiny of this claim.'

' Social fund no-go for couple in Sunderland '

Applying for grants at Sunderland Council and relying on the Benefits Agency to be fair can be one of those moments you wish hadn't.  For Darlene Hunter and Trevor Atkinson it was a huge mistake.  Both services took ages to look at their applications as they sat broke in their council house without several vital amenities, only to be told later their applications had been turned down.  The social fund invented by the government was a total fiasco, and luckily outsiders reading about their plight gave them help.  So much for social services eh?

THEIR LOCAL PAPER CALLED IT 'THE ANTI-SOCIAL FUND --- WHAT ABOUT 'ANTI-SOCIAL SERVICES ' ?

' Camden Council in scandal of children's home abuses '

CHILDREN WHIPPED AND TORTURED was the headline accusing The London Borough of Camden of administering a brutal regime of physical and sexual abuse in its homes for children.  Mychaela Cook told of boys being whipped with the belt for being naughty and girls having their hands burnt over a hot fire besides some sexual attacks.  These incidents happened regularly over twenty or more years without intervention or proper investigation despite complaints being made.  Since being discovered, legal actions for damages have been made against the council and funded by the Legal Aid Board.  The council withdrew into their usual stance of denial and said that these allegations would have to be tested in the courts.

' Local Government Child Porn Collector is Jailed '

GOVERNMENT SURVEYOR CHARLES NORRIS with the Greenwich Borough Council was jailed for four years by Maidstone Crown Court.  Police seized 5,500 photographs, another 5,500 colour slides, 100 videos and 200 books along with 29 photograph albums featuring young boys.  He was charged with taking indecent photographs of children and making an obscene video involving boys of 14 and 15 depicting acts of gross indecency.

' Government men prey on boys for sex kicks '

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OFFICER MICHAEL COLGATE and EXECUTIVE OFFICER JOHN MACDONALD of the Scottish Land Registry were convicted of possessing and importing child pornography.  Colgate from the Bracknell with the Met Office claimed he was interested in 12 year old boys and liked to see them being controlled, spanked and caned.  MacDonald who wrote requesting material said he was from a legal background and needed it to be 'hush, hush'  and preferred uniformed boys or uniformed men caning young boys similar to an officer and cadet scene.

' Lambeth Council in trouble with judge '

LAMBETH COUNCIL were ordered to explain its social services handling in which a 14 year old boy was whipped and assaulted by his governor father because the lads failed to do his homework.  Southwark Crown Court bound the council appointed man for two and a half years.  It was shown that the boy had been beaten for a period of two years and this had led to scarring.  Judge Pearlman demanded that the council give a full account of how this was allowed to happen.

' Council home in torture case against children '

BOYS WERE TORTURED AND BEATEN BY SOCIAL WORKER and two male colleagues.  Newcastle Crown Court heard evidence of how boys were beaten with fists at Witherwack House in Sunderland.  Glynis Tamblin, Alan Dingwall and Kevin Roffe stood in the dock as the sordid details of their regime shocked the jury.  Nine boys were called to give evidence, and the council was reprimanded for trying to play down the situation even though they had suspected something wrong was happening in the home.

' Councillors called to resign after sleazy stunt in bad taste '

COUNCILLOR JIM WALKER and COUNCILLOR SANDY BLAIR were pictured in a restaurant with girls in school attire brandishing school canes.  The publicity stunt was for the opening of 'school dinners' in Belfast, just like its London counterpart that features spanking and caning in the restaurant with customers. 

' M.P. resigns over spanking sessions '

TORY MP PROFESSOR ROSS HARPER resigned when it was revealed that the minister took part in spankings with vice girls and paid £100 a time.  One time chairman of the Scottish Party, Harper frequently took part in sessions in which he wanted spanking said vice girl Jeanette.

' Another Spanking M.P. in vice girl sessions '

LIBERAL MP MICHAEL MEADOWCROFT visited massage parlours where he paid £50  a time for spanking sessions.  The MP for Leeds West, did not deny it or try to keep it a secret the reporter said.  When asked about it later he said it was not him, but vice girl Samantha confirmed it was.

' Harvey Proctor - the scandal of the MP and spanking of rent boys '

BILLERICAY MP HARVEY PROCTOR is a name that one is hardly likely to forget, especially the two above MP's as he took a rent boy dressed in school wear into the house of commons.  One of those reasons was that he lied to his party and constituents in desperation to hold on.  But it crashed around him as more was revealed about his many boys and the canings he administered.  He was finally thrown out of the party and went into hiding.  He was later charged with four counts of gross indecency when he appeared in court.

' The Tax Dodging MP into spanking '

TORY MP EVELYN KING was exposed by Debbie Green who took part in spanking sessions with Mr. King. He was once the Labour MP for Penryn and Falmouth before finally becoming a Tory MP for South Dorset.  Debbie says she dressed as a schoolgirl and schoolboy to satisfy his taste for school scenes.  At the beginning of the relationship he used a fictitious pseudonym ' John Armitage '

' Kinky Spanking for Civil Servant '

High Street Banking Monitor civil servant IAN ERSKINE revealed a hidden secret when his sudden disappearance sparked a police visit to his flat. Police made a forced entry into the Notting Hill flat where they discovered porn magazines, whips, canes and bondage gear packed in cases and drawers. Erskine was an Assistant Advisor in the Bank of England Supervision Section -- it was discovered that a 'special cheque book' had gone and was being used since his disappearance. It was also said that Bank of England Security staff had been called in over the matter.

' The Mystery MP on spanking visits to vice queen '

Adelaide Serrano claimed that Special Branch had her prosecuted to cover up an MP and keep secret his identity the Knightsbridge Crown Court heard.  She claimed her phone number was suddenly changed after she had refused requests from Special Branch.  The riddle remained as the court considered the charge of keeping a disorderly house.

' Education Committee Deputy Chairman with torture cellar '

When the police broke into Mr. Rogers house they discovered something that resembled a torture chamber of old.  Chains, whips leather gear and more adorned the walls of this cellar; a sound-proofed one at that.  The Education Deputy was a respectable pin striped suited man by day, but in the evening he was visiting gay bars and S & M clubs.  Videos were found on shelves and mirrors positioned for victims to see themselves being whipped.  Neighbours in Osborne Road, Levenshulme, Manchester were completely oblivious to what was happening.

' Moral Guardian Peer quits over Spanking Situation '

LORD HULME of Cheltenham, the £48,000 a year chairman of the Broadcasting Standards Commission stood down after he admitted cheating on his wife and having a secret affair with Tracey Kelly when it was revealed they had enjoyed spanking sessions, which he told reporters was having to end.

' Failures in the civil service are nothing new '

EVER SINCE THE DAWN OF 1854 when Stafford Northcote and Sir Charles Trevelyan were required to look at the civil service -- they found widespread dishonesty, poor skills and a complete lack of integrity apart from a failure to carry out their duties for the public in a way that should have been expected.  The commission set about creating a new work ethos, to disengage civil servants from doing the job for personal enrichment.  The object was to make the new service be driven by a desire to serve, but as we have seen countless times, whether it is in government or local government, it was never quite achieved.  The greed is still ever-present and so is the corruption.

Benefits Agency Impedes Claims '

GRANTS AND ALLOWANCES were deliberately delayed in an attempt to decrease payouts and claims, and at best; wear down claimants so that they would discontinue or give up.  The Agency claimed ' that it needed time to check claims more thoroughly'  Tribunal member Andrew Hayles said ' this is an attempt to forestall and cut down on the work needed to prepare for appeals.  It is an outrageous attempt to undermine what is supposed to be a safety net for claimants by deliberately delaying decisions.'

'CLAIM TAKES SIX YEARS TO RESOLVE' - Fresh consideration was given to 'the urgent need' of a woman claimant.  Described by the Benefits Agency as ' an unfortunate and prolonged history' the claim wandered in the pipeline and went before a commissioner after going before another commissioner two years earlier! the commissioner at the time, William Walker recommended urgent action then after accepting her case, but the agency appealed and it went on another walkabout.  I suppose this is what the Benefits Agency call ' working for the community caring for people '

' DVLA and Harrow Council swindle woman over misuse of powers '

Recently highlighted on a consumer TV programme was the awful behaviour of the DVLA who issue driving licences and excise road tax demands in the complicity with Harrow Council in depriving a woman of her £3,000 motor vehicle and at the same time-- fining her.  The mix up was fairly and squarely between these two bodies, and they were not even bothered about the harm they had caused.  Harrow Council sold the woman's car saying they had powers to do so even if as it turned out -- they'd got it wrong.  They in turn said this was due to the wrong information provided by the DVLA.  The DVLA claim they never get anything wrong?  A fine can be tripled and go way beyond what is reasonable, even if the owner of the vehicle is not to blame.  Melanie, the owner of the car has never been compensated, and it was only when the programme intervened that they said they would look into the case?  Many others have complained about this government department, and have got nowhere because of the attitude of civil servants working there.  A judge in one case after considering what the department had done said ' the DVLA had no statutory powers in requiring a person to notify them the DVLA when they did not receive a reply to having applied a SORN -- off road declaration.  The Chief Executive of course differed, as one would expect.  He said he sympathises with Melanie and others who have complained about the appalling service.  One man after hearing a civil servant on the phone at the DVLA telling him they never got things wrong, made an application to the Freedom of Information, and it returned with what can only be seen as a breach of the act ' saying they had no figures of complaints lodged against the DVLA -- which means the DVLA deliberately obstructed such or never intended to comply with the Act.  Yet, the Chief Executive gave out a figure on complaints when he was being pushed into answering, so this is proof that they are quite well aware of the complaints and that there must be many.  Yet, they still go on threatening and fining with complete immunity -- obviously driven and provided by the government lawyers, and we already know how corrupt they are.

' DVLA Civil Servants in Data sell off to clampers '

A REPORT HAS REVEALED THAT PRIVATE DATA ON PEOPLE ARE BEING SOLD to vehicle clamping firms,  some who have very dubious reputations and immoral ways of getting around the law. More than a million requests for drivers details were sold off by the DVLA despite legislation on Data Protection.  Full details are passed on to fee paying firms without the slightest worry because the DVLA has immunity and can do what it wants knowing that Whitehall Lawyers will twist rules and make out the case for government. This all came to light when Simon Tse, The Chief Executive of the Driver and Vehicles Licensing Centre told a Commons Committee that 1.2million articles of information had been sold to private parking companies in one year being a part of 21 million articles of data given out, and disclosed the departments earnings being £8.5million per annum. The organisation Civil Liberties described the dealings as a scandal in the trade in personal details to rogues the government were pretending to control and eliminate whilst having another agenda based on profiteering.

DVLA HAVE INNOCENT MAN ARRESTED --- Michael Cook went to renew his vehicle tax disc in the local office of the DVLA in Newcastle -- Eagle Star in Gosworth, when on producing an MOT he was detained and arrested by police because they accused him of having a fake document.  Arrogant staff at the DVLA refused to act in a caring manner and moved into high alert strategy thinking they were about to nail a crook, but the real crooks turned out to be the DVLA.  The colour of the MOT was the wrong shade of green, but it was issued by the government vehicle testing station.  Police locked up Mr.Cook in a cell for 3 hours, took his DNA and fingerprints before it was proved the document was genuine. He has since been issued with a replacement, but no apology from the DVLA or compensation.  Mr.Cook has since gone on to seek legal advice on suing the police and DVLA.

'DVLA sell off details of 7,000 drivers to convicted company'

It was announced in a small tucked away news article that the DVLA had sold off the information and details of 7,000 drivers to a company that had been found guilty of 36 offences against the motoring public. The firm Observices Parking Consultancy -- a fancy name for clampers, run by Director Douglas Harris, were fined a staggering total of £29,850 by Wolverhampton Magistrates Court.  The court had even made mention of the despicable tactics used by the firm. Yet, the caring authorities lifted the ban on this company??  I think we can all see what the DVLA stand for.

' £150,000 spent by council on graves to face Mecca '

HIGH WYCOMBE TOWN COUNCIL came under heavy criticism for its wasteful spending on extending a cemetery so that Muslim graves could be positioned to face Mecca.  The screwball idea is obviously a pandering to middle east influences and fear according to one observer, ' they daren't say no in case they come under fire' he said.  A council member accused the plan as wasteful in these economic times and attacked it has being over the top.

' Council Snooping on the rise and all backed by the DWP '

Unlawful hacking of the Customer Information System which belongs to the Department of Work and Pensions is being looked at by council staff. The Database holds the records of around 85 million people. Some council staff were dismissed for looking at data on friends and family, but two thirds of them were just let off.  The DWP does not hold details on its own staff caught snooping through the data and it is easy to see why. There was 124 breaches by staff last year, the ones caught that is.  The DWP gave the pretence that they care, but evidence of this is not much more above nil.

' COUNCIL FRAUD EXPOSED '

BIRMINGHAM COUNCIL the accounting body responsible for ASTON PRIDE'S £55Million budget is said to have known about a breach concerning unauthorised payments for five months and did nothing even though a whistleblower warned them about it.  The payment of £100,000 was made to ANTHONY COLLINS, SOLICITORS without going through the formal tendering process.  Investigations have now been launched despite their reluctance to act on the information of a whistleblower.

' Judge tells expenses fiddle MP's they must stand trial '

THREE MP'S AND A PEER HAVE VOWED TO SIDESTEP THE LAW by using old laws not really meant for covering up fiddles.  A judge said there was no logical, moral or legal justification for these cases not going to court.  Now taxpayers face a bill of £1million in legal aid because the politicians have applied for it.  MP's David Chaytor, Elliott Morley, Jim Devine and Lord Hanningfield who are accused of expenses fraud and pocketing thousands as a result argue that they cannot be tried in a court according to a 300 year old law.

In the latest round of legal moves, it appears that the MP's have lost their appeal to escape trial as the appeal judges ruled against them.  It is said they intend to take the matter to the Supreme Court next?

' 7 Council Housing Department staff are sacked '

BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL sacked seven civil servants from their housing department after they landed the city with a £7.5million compensation bill over an issue where tenants were suing the council for the bad condition of properties that had been allowed to fall into disrepair.  Ironically, the manager of the 7 people team who were supposed to fight off the claims ' providing evidence' took early retirement, and astoundingly, three of the seven now work in the same legal firms that launched the claims against the council they were employed by?

' Conservative Peer charged with fiddling expenses '

LORD TAYLOR OF WARWICK was charged with fiddling £11,000 of expenses.  Lord Taylor is accused of the homes and property swap scam in order to claim second home expenses.  Lord Taylor will appear before the Westminster Magistrates Court in September.  He is the second Tory peer to be charged with fraud since the expenses fiddle net began to find other rogues.

' Council behaves outrageously to pensioner '

MILTON KEYNES COUNCIL came under fire as it was revealed that they have barred her 'officially' from having friends around to visit, especially if they include the care workers or anyone off the council staff.  Councils already show little emblems around offices and public rooms saying ' Care in the Community and Caring for People' but somehow Milton Keynes have forgotten this.  The only people 79yr old Brenda Coker sees are the people who come to care for her, and on her 80th birthday they prevented those who dealt with her needs and carers from attending saying it was contrary to the guidelines.

' Town Hall Pensions account for one quarter of the council tax '

A DISTURBING REPORT REVEALED that councils took the taxpayer for over £5billion in order to pay for pensions of civil service council staff and workers.  This sum is likely to rise rather than fall in the next few years, and the spokesman for the Local Government Association, a body representing councils, said ' the recession produced a fall in investment income while increased contributions from staff have only just kicked in' which in essence means they realized how bad this would look if it became public knowledge.

' Libdem Councillor on Assault Charge '

CIVIL SERVANT COUNCILLOR CHRISTINE JAMES of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council was arrested by Dorset Police and charged with assault. She is reported to have attacked fellow councillor IAN JAMES from whom she was separated (married). Previously a supporter for battered women and campaigner for the Domestic Violence and Abuse Forum, doesn't do her any favours.

' Tory Treasurer quits over revelations '

DAVID ROWLAND the wealthy Tory party treasurer as stepped down as reports name him the ' shady financier ' related to his string of financial affairs, business tactics and playboy life. He gave £2.7million to the Tory Party. Now the Conservatives are worried that they may be 'tainted' and see him as an embarassment.

' Council Watchdog over council spending is to be axed '

THE TAXPAYER'S SAVIOUR is no longer seen as being value for money by the government who have announced plans to scrap this department, which was set up to scrutiny council spending. The inspection duties have now been handed over to the National Audit Office. Some see this move as a deliberate attempt by the new coalition government to make sure the taxpayer is left in the dark and less able to know about what councils spend on services. Rather typical of a government after 'an expenses scandal' that left them bruised.

' Eurocrat Politicians about to get triple pay '

POLITICS IS INDEED A DIRTY AND CORRUPT PLACE, and one a variety of lawyers, ex-lawyers and business men like to get involved in.  Corruption surrounded the European Committee last year, but findings on investigations have just run aground and mysteriously disappeared? Now these MP's from the UK and the rest of Europe are set to award themselves a pay boost. It is planning a 2.2 pay rise at the end of the year with bonuses in line to grab a further 1.3 per cent. Germany described this move as ' greedy ' and the European Taxpayers Association's Michael Jaegar said the rises were unbelievable. The salary of the Director would take his pay to £18,500 a month?  It is already claimed that the highest paid civil servants are the EU Officials.

' The Benefits 'Open Government ' policy that never was '

THE BENEFITS 'TELL US ABOUT IT' BOOK that claims itself to be transparent and happy to declare a designed box 'OPEN GOVERNMENT' really do tell a pack of lies.  It says they are committed to the principles of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information? --since when?  One has only to look at benefit staff fiddles and the expenses scandal to see this is false. They claim their staff will treat all people in a fair and courteous way, yet another lie, a lie that is exposed by the many articles on this page. It goes on to say -- where a complaint is made about discriminatory behaviour we will ensure that appropriate steps are taken to correct and improve the service,  --- yet another lie -- as we have exposed the system as it closes rank to protect the civil servant passing the complaint around and around and shaking their heads in disbelief that a claimant could be accusing them.  It seems that the season of 'rotten apples' is more or less permanent with no signs of cure, pesticide or replanting, the civil service are most certainly corrupt and will go on being that way.

' Council to be sued by girl '

WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL are being sued by teenager Natasha Caley-Winborne over an accident she suffered when she was 6 yrs old. It states that she fell in her school playground and hit her head after tripping on uneven grass at Ardingly, East Sussex. The writ issued claims £100,000 in damages.

' Councillor Arrested '

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNCILLOR DAVID WHITTAKER spoke out over the 'toilets arrest' by officers. He was charged with the offence of sexual activity in a public lavatory, and was due to appear before Isle of Wight magistrates in late August. He denies the charge.

' Travellers win against council after 6 year eviction battle '

BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL landed taxpayers with a bill for £200,000 after losing a six year eviction contest to get rid of the extended family of travellers, the Doherty's. Birmingham housing councillor John Lines said ' I have just received a legal bill for more than £200,000 and must pay half of it immediately or face prison. This money will line the pockets of those squatters and their lawyers.'

' House of Commons Officer on the fiddle himself'

GOVERNMENT OFFICER ANDREW GIBSON who was responsible for looking into MP's expenses is said to be facing jail for submitting bogus invoices himself. It says he created three fake bills in the name of MP's who were retiring or leaving their posts to pay off gambling debts. The resources budget officer from the fees office was said to have paid £5,875 into a friend's account. His bogus invoices  were only discovered during police investigations into the expenses scandal. Gibson and the friend were due to appear at Southwark Crown Court but pleaded guilty before the jury were sworn in.

' Lib-Dem Candidate accused of fraud '

LIB-DEM CANDIDATE DR VINCENT McKEE is under investigation for fraud a report says. Complaints by students and parents say their accounts have been plundered after signing up for tuition. One parent said she agreed to pay a bill of £380 for tuition through her bank, and found to her horror that £3,260 had been taken from her account. Others also complained of similar happenings in connection with the tuition fees and Mr. McKee. It says the Lib-Dem party have suspended him and that an investigation will be carried out.

' Corrupt Benefits Officer goes to Jail '

BENEFITS FRAUD INVESTIGATOR BADRUL ISLAM worked in the benefits division for many years including being one of its fraud investigators, yet he succumbed to corruption by fraudulently obtaining £200,000 out of Newham Council. It was only discovered when one colleague spotted a £13,000 payment to a landlord which did not make sense. As they investigated, the entire benefits staff came under suspicion until they identified the authorization code which pointed to Badrul Islam. The payments of around £75,000 were being paid to a letting agency -- Eurobanga Letting, and a further £125,000 to Elite Property Services. Difficult as it was, especially a seasoned operator within their own department able to dodge and falsify, they linked Badrul to the two men of each Letting Agency. A court sentenced Badrul Islam to 2years and four months imprisonment.

TAXPAYERS GET THE BILL FOR LIMOUSINES ORDERED AND USED BY CABINET MINISTER JOHN REED - A bill of around £4,000 was presented to taxpayers so that Reed could attend football trips according to report. A person speaking for Lord John Reed said it was necessary in order to protect the minister?

MP DAVID CHATOR GOES TO JAIL -- former labour minister David Chator was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his part in the ' EXPENSES SCANDAL '  It is stated that he swindled £22,000 of illegitimate expenses, and declared he was not guilty of any wrong-doing -- like so many of them. Southwark Crown Court heard how he faked bills to back up his claims. Bogus rent claims -- imagined computer services -- is the first of four cases to be heard on fiddling MP's.

THE MURKY WORLD OF MP EXPENSES IS BEING SOFTENED AND HIDDEN as secretive repayments are made by MP's who don't want to appear before the courts, and luckily they have been provided with a get out of jail card free.  16 cases of secret repayments were exposed --MP David Tredinnick paid back £755.50, MP Anthony Steen paid back £561 and MP Janet Anderson paid back £5,700. The report says that were attempts made by the Labour Office to suppress this information.

MP'S ARE BILLING THE TAXPAYER FOR £500,000 OVER SPIN TRAINING -- A report reveals that Spin lessons for MP'S are costing around half a million pounds. The Deal with CAPITA was taken out by MP'S for a two day course on influencing and persuading techniques.

COUNCILS ARE SPENDING £315MILLION ON CCTV in order to spy on civilians, despite cuts in public services and other slashes in their budgets. A survey of 336 councils shows why their are concerns over the system dubbed as ' Big Brother is watching you ' The UK's surveillance society shows no signs of stopping, and more alarmingly they find money for it no matter what cuts are made elsewhere?

' TORY COUNCILLOR JAILED FOR DRINK DRIVING '

OWEN CAMERON a councillor on Thanet District Council quit his position after being jailed for four months for drink-driving. It was said that he arrived at the court drunk? as he appeared before Margate Magistrates.

' Labour Peer dismissed over expenses fiddle '

BARONESS UDDIN has been removed from the House of Lords after being exposed as a cheat who took £40,000 of expenses cash. She has been ordered to repay £125,000 and is suspended for 18 months. Lady Uddin claimed she was too poor to pay back the money?

' Council waste Taxpayer's cash  on legal squabble '

GREAT AYCLIFFE COUNCIL in County Durham have spent £50,000 of public money arguing over a chair in a battle of who sits where.  The pathetic scrap ended up at a tribunal and council members, Lib Dem Billy Blenkinsop and Labour's Dorothy Bowman being the two on the council who were running up time and money. It is said this squabble and costs have been going on for 16 months? all on the taxpayer.

' Wife and son of MP lie over drink/drive charge '

MP BRIAN BINLEY'S wife and son - Matthew Binley are said to be facing a prison sentence after making false statements to police after a drink/drive incident. FORMER POLICE CONSTABLE MATTHEW BINLEY crashed the car into a bollard while over the drink limit. He was bailed and charged, but two days later his mother arrived at the police station saying she had been driving that day, and made a statement to that fact. They only charged the former police constable after finding a 'draft statement' in his handwriting so that his mother could copy it. They were both charged and appeared before Northampton Crown Court. Interestingly, MP Brian Binley did not appear at court but information says that he paid back £1,500 in the expenses repayment having breached the rules.

' MP Woolas thrown out of party over lies '

MP PHIL WOOLAS left the labour party in disgrace over stirring up racial tension in a bid to win over voters. Woolas often appeared on TV programmes shouting down opposition and arrogantly twisting things so that he appeared to be right. A specially convened court agreed that he made false statements about a rival in the election. The immigration minister lost his seat and banned from the house of commons for three years. His appeal against the decision was turned down by judges.

' Ex-Ministers are caught in sting over cash for access '

MP GEOFF HOON,  MP STEVEN BYERS and  MP RICHARD CABORN have been disgraced after being caught on secret cameras touting themselves to firms offering access to parliament and favourable deals. Geoff Hoon was banned for five years -- Byers was banned for two years, and Caborn was banned for six months.

' Civil Servants are incapable of 'waste-cutting' report says '

OUT OF EVERY £7 OF PROMISED SAVINGS ONLY £1 WAS ACHIEVED. -- A damning report revealed that civil servants are incapable of addressing the situation. The Public Accounts Committee delivered a verdict on labour's pledge to produce £35billion on savings as unattainable by civil servants.

' Council spin job to go ahead despite protests '

A £120,000 salary spin job has been given the go ahead with councils despite all of their promises to help cut back on waste. The Local Government Association is to re-introduce the council post of ' Director of Strategy ' after being give a rough reception over the soaring pay of chief executive John Ransford.

' City Council in £15,000 job farce '

Taxpayers are footing £15,000 on finding a new executive only to find that the man appointed was already doing it. Confused? yes you may well be. Salford Labour council were looking for an ideal candidate for the job of ' Director of Children's Services '  -- the same department that had dismissed its previous Director. Suddenly, the post was given to Nick Page who had been ' Acting Director ' for a year.  Is this called wise spending?

' Southend council comes under heavy fire from taxpayer '

Taxpayer Brian Ayling of Essex says the rot must be stopped. He points out that an enormous amount of public money is being wasted by his local council -- Southend. He goes onto say the council are spending money on expensive schemes of no benefit to the local residents. He openly says that councils like Southend have developed over the past twenty years like a malignant cancer, with departments growing out of all proportion to their necessity. Councillors have been swept along on a tide of ' grab what you can'. Mr Ayling we must point out does not say these things from a position of mere onlooker, no -- HE WAS A COUNCILLOR HIMSELF IN 2000.

' Jobcentre tells woman you can't have a job until you are on benefits '

A desperate job seeker -- Lynne Dawson was shocked to find staff at her jobcentre turning her request for help down.  The Jobcentre Plus in Derby said she did not qualify for a meeting with their advisors unless she was on jobseekers allowance.  She was angry that she didn't want to be on the dole and wanted help for getting a job, and here was a sign saying jobcentre and if you weren't signing on you don't get a job with us. One staff member leaving for lunch told a reporter on the case ' the jobcentre plus is not there to help people get jobs. It is there to give people money and show them what jobs are out there '

' Not the exact truth on BBC's Saints and Scroungers '

DOMINIC LITTLEWOOD MIGHT BE PLEASED WITH THE SHOW, but it isn't all that he cracks it up to be. That is the problem with this 'so called hero presenter' -- in it to win it is more likely. He presents the Benefits fraud people as they would like  to be seen, the warped and highly edited version. They show the scroungers being caught and lots of this ' Reconstructions acting ' all meant to represent the facts. But we have heard it from one former disgruntled investigator that not all calls made by the public are even listened to let alone investigated. For certain reasons top brass leave certain people alone without any explanation even though it is obvious that the suspect is clearly up to something. If one of the investigators or staff is caught fiddling, it has to be okayed by managerial staff at the very top and it has to go through a process known as ' damage limitation ' before the likes of Littlewood can have it on a programme. He told us that he came under fire for examining cases and asking questions, which resulted in staff and colleagues deliberately thwarting him. This eventually led to him being removed - transferred to another department without any reason being given. The DWP fraud investigation team do not like to be caught out or their work seen. Although Littlewood is right to praise the 'Saints' he says that the people and managers who turn down applications of the needy are not named or shown in the show, and that component is quickly left out and glossed over. So let's have less of the drama and propaganda, it's very worn and lacks the truth.

' One law for them, and one for the others '

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HEAR THAT ONE AND HAVE IT DENIED? almost consistently by the courts and DWP -- they believe their propaganda so much that they think it is the truth.  The trouble here is they can corruptly make it work their way despite feeling it has interfered with the rights of the citizen.  Judicial reviews are rare and costly, and it depends who you are in order to make it happen. The criteria is so complicated that it needs lawyers to use it or sidestep the process to actually benefit from this one.  Take the DWP, they can move an army against a suspect or claimant and we cite a case of last year.  A complaint was made plus allegations, against staff at a jobcentre. The person making these was escorted off the premises.  The complainant returned with a witness and asked to to confront and question the staff member -- the police were called by the DWP to assist them throw out the independent witness and the claimant.  The claimant applied for and requested all documents in connection with the complaint and to see the file on the complaint. They were refused and told to write to the Freedom of Information in connection with this. This was carried out although very time consuming, and this was obviously what the DWP intended. A solicitor replied from the department saying that a fee would be required in exchange for some general information, but the file and notes of the in-house staff and managers were data protected and were not available despite them being a vital part of the complaint case. On the other hand, the DWP and Benefit Officers can seize all data on the suspect and claimant including personal matters, bank accounts and much more by their laws -- with the assistance of the police of course. Some statements by them have been known to lie or appear fabricated after collusion to support staff, something we have come across several times. If you try to parade these in front of a judge he won't listen and allows excuses like error etc. One other area that is fascinating law wise, is that the DWP can film claimants and suspects, follow them etc, but if an individual tries the same thing on DWP staff they are stopped by security staff and get a letter saying that they have breached the privacy act or committed harassment, and we have seen evidence of this, but you cannot reverse this when they hound you, because they say the law backs them up...so as we began, there really is one law for them, and one law for you.

' Council Chief Executive in rape incident '

CONWAY COUNCIL'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE Byron Davies appeared before Mold Crown Court on a charge of rape against a woman colleague. The council boss who lives Yelverton, Devon was said to have committed the offence in the Castle Hotel in Conway. The £100,000 a year executive was suspended from his council post.

' False invoices MP fiddled £9,000 '

MP JIM DEVINE got his opportunity to go before the court. He was charged with making false claim expenses of around £9,000. The list of false claims says Printing of leaflets, cleaning work etc. It is said that he acted dishonestly from July 2008 to May 2009 when he made the false claims for specified items that were not carried out or existed, the latter applying to the printing. The trial continues.

LATEST NEWS: Jim Devine has been found guilty of making false claims and defrauding the taxpayers.

' South London Councillor gets £118,000 in allowances! '

YES INDEED, the gravy train in government rolls on. Tory Councillor Steve O'Connell claims that he is not only entitled to make such claims but is also worth the money -- paid by the taxpayer -- who else?  The former bank worker, yes -- bank worker, the Croydon Councillor claims expenses of £117,888.

' Labour Council Boss is paid £168,000 '

YET ANOTHER FAT CAT GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL -- Despite the fact that his council, Hartlepool District Council, is facing cuts of 19 per cent in their budget in spending for the public, Councillor Paul Walker is set to have a pay rise that takes his salary to a staggering £168,000 per year.

' Government still continues to hoodwink the public '

In fact every government does it, and they have ever since they took their seats in the House of Commons, that is the nature of the beast that craves the power to control.  They think throwing two or three MP's to the crowd in a sacrificial attempt to show good faith in solving the expenses issue of corruption and fraud will satisfy most of the public. Many others involved have in the main walked away and disappeared from view, and not by accident but by choice. Lies by government still go on, and the UK Government are masters of the art to deceive, they have had plenty of practice. The many articles listed on this page prove this and the many more that will be added can only point to this conclusion.  This article will not change anything, but we would rather it be seen than not so.

' Councillor unmasked as Outlaw Biker Gang Member '

TEWKESBURY CONSERVATIVE COUNCILLOR JIM MASON was discovered to be a member of an infamous outlaw biker gang named by Europe cops as a crime group who police have been trying to round up in connection with crimes; often involving rivalry between the hell's angels bikers. He denied being a member when reporters asked him, but photos confirmed he had been a member. The Council and Conservative Association refused to comment about the 'exposed double life of the councillor '

' Jobcentre tells transsexual to be a man to get work '

DARLINGTON JOBCENTRE in County Durham is accused of giving insensitive advice and ridicule by Andrew Cook (transsexual) who often goes under the name of Tina Cook. He says they wink at him and call him ' darling ' and recommend him for waitressing at posh restaurants knowing fully well he would not get the job. He has now launched a formal complaint against the DWP for disrespect and abuse.

' Council spending gone mad in several districts report '

WHERE AS ALL THE MONEY GONE? yes, that's what taxpayers really want to know, and they were not amused to read a recent report showing that -- LONDON councils spent £30million in three year refurbishing their plush offices for civil servants.  Hounslow council leader got £35,000 to improve his office, and Hillingdon council spent £30,000 on upholstering their chairs.  LAMBETH spent £550,000 on producing the council newspaper. BASILDON forked out £400,000 on illuminating a Hollywood style sign of 5 foot spelling out Basildon.  GOSPORT in Hampshire spent £7,350 on fact finding trips for staff. WILTSHIRE spent £475,000 on 're-branding and inventing themselves ' A new logo cost £179,227 and unused uniforms cost £113,327.  DEVON spent £500 on printing leaflets telling people they could not salt certain areas in bad weather. SCARBOROUGH spent £504 on monitoring wet weather, £235 on a water survey and £570 on shopping tips and advice.

' The smell of corruption cannot be hair-brushed out '

THE GOVERNMENT ARE CONSISTENT ON TWO FRONTS, trying to play down lies and hiding corruption by calling it mistakes and errors in judgement.  We now have fraud investigators raiding the treasurer's office of the Conservatives.  A probe has been launched as part of a criminal investigation into nine people at the business premises of former Tory Party Treasurer David Rowland.  The FSO arrested the Tchenguiz brothers this month and is looking into how several major depositors in Kaupthing were able to withdraw cash holdings just as the bank went bust leaving millions of other investors to suffer a huge financial loss.

' Yet another Peer goes to jail for expenses fiddle '

LORD HANNIGFIELD was sent to jail by Maidstone Crown Court for dishonesty, for a period of nine months. He was labelled as a 'benefits cheat' by the public who sat watching the case.  This former leader of Essex County Council was found guilty on six counts of fraud -- false accounting, -- laughingly he had his sentence reduced on claims of poor health, something a lawyer would have suggested perhaps?

' West Sussex Council staff on leave over stress '

A report says 88 civil servants who work at West Sussex County Council took 905 days off for stress. Many claimants who look for their help have stress, but they get nothing, not even sympathy. One wonders why they claim this excuse of twaddle when they are compensated for this sick leave very well. They have a nice fat rich union who look after them. They cite worrying over job cuts as the main reason, those who have no jobs often get the worst service from this lot.

' £250,000 Payout for council man who gets new job '

A HIGHLY PAID COUNCIL CHIEF got £250,000 in redundancy pay, and then went on to get a new job with a six-figure remuneration.  MARK HAMMOND is now getting £130,000 a year at the Human Rights Commission. This man was with the above 'stress council ' West Sussex County Council. It certainly seems good when you walk away from one job, grab a big handout, and then walk straight into another nice little earner.

' Lying Peer and Cabinet Minister is jailed for fraud '

ELLIOT MORLEY another government expenses MP, who denied all charges, was said to have wept at the court's decision to send him to jail.  Morley was sent to prison for 16 months when he appeared before Southwark Crown Court. It was said that he claimed £31,333 for a ' phantom mortgage ' and grossly exaggerated the amount he was paying for another property.  Lies, and more damned lies, seems to be a theme that exposes ministers, government employees, cops and lawyers, and we feature as much of it as we can, and we have absolute bundles we're still working on.

' Tory Councillor in vote rigging goes to jail '

SLOUGH BOROUGH COUNCIL'S TORY COUNCILLOR DISGRACED ESHAQ KHAN was sent to jail for three and a half years by Reading Crown Court.  The Councillor and five others hatched a plan to use ' ghost voters ' to win the local elections. He was convicted of conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and commit perjury.

' MP Huhne smiles on despite the many allegations against him '

GOVERNMENT MINISTER and Energy Secretary CHRIS HUHNE has over quite a period of time, been accused of lying over £60,000 concerning election expenses, and an inquiry was started? Then there was the criminal matter of a motor offence, in which his ex-wife said she'd secretly taped him pressuring her to accept his speeding points in order that he escapes a driving ban. But he continues to look as if none of this matters, and he might be right, he's odds on to sail through this and become untouchable.

' 7000 Council Staff are given free mobile phones costing £1.2million '

MANCHESTER COUNCIL have issued their staff with mobile phones costing the taxpayer over a million pounds, while at the same time making cutbacks in their budget that affects the public.  It employs 11,500 workers and has given out 7,032 phones and 232 blackberrys.  The council have responded by saying ' mobile devices allow staff to work flexibly and efficiently '  Strange that, especially when their union are saying more workers are off ill due to stress and workloads. In today's world most of those people already own a mobile anyway?

' Councils sell personal data to junk mail firms '

There is much said about data being protected, especially by councils, but it has been revealed that councils throughout the UK are selling it to make a profit. A junk mail company can by the public's personal data for £21.50 and get 1,000 names and info.  Justin Basini of Data Company ALLOW said councils should not be allowed to sell lists of residents and give a company access to their details.  Council Lawyers who we challenged made excuses and pointed at data laws saying that the data protection act meant only a sanctioned data controller could see and use such data on individuals, and other use was strictly denied. --- except to them and the council.

' Benefits Appeal Judge cheats benefits system '

TRUSTED CIVIL SERVANT and Welfare Appeals Judge SUSAN ELLIOTT-JONES who passes judgement on claimants, appeared before a court charged with falsely claiming more than £8,000 in benefits.  The civil servant from Ingatestone, Essex, pleaded guilty to failing to report a change of circumstances, and was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £100 costs at Chelmsford Magistrates.

' Councillor Jailed for Money-Laundering '

The former councillor for Nelson in Lancashire, MOHAMMED ANSAR was jailed for 10 months at Burnley Crown Court. It was heard that he laundered £92,000 in cash provided by the gains from his two drug-dealing sons, Shamraiz and Khobibe. It also emerged that the town councillor was dodging paying taxes.

' Payments made to leaving staff are not to be made public, council order '

A GAGGING ORDER was made concerning £400,000 of taxpayers cash involving 13 civil servants a report has revealed.  Council Boss Andrea Hill earning a staggering £218,592 a year oversaw ' compromise agreements' totalling £400,000 paid out in just three months.  The ' Cash-strapped ' Suffolk County Council is already set to make budget cuts of £44million to public services refused to say who had authorised the 'gagging agreements' and individual payments being made to 'leaving' staff. The same council it is revealed, is facing a 'sickness bill ' of £5m over 'stressed out staff'.

' Official mistakes by staff add more to Benefits Fraud Bill '

CIVIL SERVANTS IN THE BENEFITS OFFICES are playing their part in soaring benefit fraud, a report reveals despite 23 years of concern from the watchdog who warned the Agency repeatedly. Official mistakes by staff are now at £3.3billion. THE DWP annual accounts for 2010/2011 show that the situation has been hampered by fraud and error since 1988.  Government departments have been aware of this for years, but tend to allow the DWP to do as it sees fit without any intervention.

' Gun possessing Councillor and child porn collector goes to jail '

JOSEPH SHAW, Wigan Town Councillor, was arrested by police after it was discovered he had over 2000 child porn images downloaded to his computer. After a search at his home by police a Smith and Wesson revolver with ammunition was found under his bed. He appeared before Liverpool Crown Court and pleaded guilty to 17 counts of possessing indecent child images for which he received one year's jail, possession of a firearm - 5 years, and ammunition -- another two years.

' Kent Councillor and Sheriff is jailed over child porn '

FORMER COUNCILLOR MARTIN FISHER of Canterbury, Kent, was sent to jail for ten months by the court after pleading guilty to five charges concerning the collection of child sex photos and indecent images of young children. He was also convicted of indecent assault against a vulnerable youngster. The court jailed the former Sheriff of Canterbury and local councillor for ten months and have banned him from working with children for a period of ten years.

' Government reneges on promise to be transparent on expense fiddle MP's '

THE INDEPENDENT PARLIAMENTARY STANDARDS AUTHORITY have announced that they will not be 'naming and shaming expenses fiddling MP's because the think it unfair?  Apparently, Luke March the Watchdog's compliance officer has done a u-turn on this in favour of the MP's.  This allows over 40 politicians to walk away feeling pleased with themselves at having succeeded dodging the public just as they wished. This is yet another sign why the Government cannot be trusted.

' A catalogue of Government waste spending and no one cares '

It seems incredible that this country went crazy over 'the expenses fiddle' that involved crime by MP's, yet the ball falls short at the net like a small kid who cannot concentrate. The public cannot see further than the end of their noses, and for the Government and other services, --- this is a jolly good wheeze. Corruption will thrive, mainly because it's a question of when and if, otherwise it's business as usual for the Government crooks. An article recently exposed how the Government spent £3,500 on a computer when it could have got the same thing from PC World at £250. This Government spends around £16 billion of taxpayers cash on IT systems, many of such that are scrapped after purchase and others break down and do not work as hoped. Critics have pointed out that if such spending occurred in the business community, the firm doing it would go bust. But this will not happen for the civil servants, the money is like an 'ever-filling' well, and they have put in laws that say they can take it without your permission, a little like a criminal case of borrowing a vehicle without consent, but they don't have to appear in court or face a charge, they can steal or borrow as long as they like.

' Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne and the Speeding ticket Saga '

There is much talk in the press about the affair of the lies, connivance and deception in the 'speeding case ' surrounding politician Chris Huhne, who's wife said that he'd lied and persuaded her to take the rap.  It appears that the strange, altogether -- unclear file, has now gone from the police to the CPS (where it may just be possibly buried without trace) . He was also under suspicion of 'expenses rigging' but somehow even that has been watered down by the Electoral Commission to ' minor discrepancies '  It is speculated that Huhne and Miss Pryce (estranged wife of Huhne) could be charged jointly of perverting the course of justice and go to prison, but we can tell you here, that is not going to happen, the worms will slither beneath the soil and we shall hear no more about it.

MR.HUHNE brought more speculation about his honesty when it was discovered that he'd made a 'gaff' on an internet tweet and in it he said he wanted to keep his fingerprints off an unspecified story which must appear as if it had come from someone else ?  Normally when one refers to fingerprints in this context, it often means make sure I don't leave a trace or can be identified in a crime.  He was questioned on the BBC, but looked very unconvincing with answers he gave to the interviewer.

Yet another delay, another false hope no doubt, as this MP tries to slip away amid more confusion brought about by the Legal Professionals. Headlines now refer to 'Police want Huhne and ex-wife charged over penalty points deal' --- it says the police are trying to charge? Huhne and his ex-wife!! and claims that there is 'plenty of evidence' for charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice, but it is not happening, and the ball has been thrown to the CPS....and we know the bungles they do and the lean they have towards their paymasters in government, I think we can safely say this story and what criminal acts took place will never reach the court.

This case and story runs like a Whitehall farce --- Huhne has now been charged along with his wife for perverting the course of justice, he has resigned his government seat.....and so the story goes on....

' Ombudsman attacks failures of Hull City Council '

HULL CITY COUNCIL has been heavily criticized by the Ombudsman over the way they failed a 14 year old boy who was being threatened with a knife on several occasions. Knife Crime is supposed to be considered serious, but social workers failed to tackle the situation leaving the boy vulnerable to attacks and intimidation. It was said they completely handled the case badly and in turn the council did not consider this a priority, and where were the police?  -- that seems to be a mystery...nothing from them at all.... it says quite a lot for that phrase ' care in the community '  evidentially --- a myth and figment of the imagination.

Quango sucks cash from taxpayers in huge payoff '

£500,000 PAYOFF to boss of discredited agency is another huge drain on the taxpayer as the government carry on as usual. The South East Development Agency is to be scrapped in 2012, and as a result payoffs abound as the Government spends money like water.  The Agency staff has volunteered for voluntarily redundancy which means packages for 15 members of staff getting a handshake of £100,000 each and six others receiving £200,000 which is rather nice for these civil servants.  7 other regional quangos have taken £23.4million for 800 staff on redundancies, but these are dwarfed by other RDA's who are paying 111 staff £51,461 each in redundancy, a total sum is expected of £5.7million in that area. So there you have it, civil servants can still rely on a gravy train.

' Job Centre Civil Servant in £8,000 Swindle '

CHRISTINE GREEN an employee of the Department of Work and Pensions Jobcentre falsely claimed £8,000 whilst being with the Benefits Staff. She appeared before Lincoln Crown Court charged with deception and fraud after falsely claiming Carer's Allowance of £8,368 over a three year period.  The claim was spotted by another worker and reported to the bosses. She was given 50 hours of community service.

 ' Another Quango Pays itself £5.2million of Taxpayers cash '

TWENTY-FIVE OFFICIALS ARE TO RECEIVE £200,000 each in golden handshakes in redundancy payoffs. The Quango is a Government Spending Watchdog, THE NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE.  Payoffs are said to go as high as £750,000 for some members of Senior Staff.  The Lay-offs are said to be part of the Governments drive to cut administration costs by 15 percent in the next three years.  It appears that Civil Service rules cater quite nicely in redundancy packages for their members, and cannot be questioned. It's hard to believe that the tax system has been so badly corrupted by Governments throughout the years, and used to support the chosen ones and in other cases held back in order to subvert justice and deny those who can least fight back, but that's Government Policy throughout the world, and not only just confined to the UK. Government corruption is like a garden weed, it flourishes, grows, and overcomes everything else in the garden in order to survive, and it's no use to anyone?

' Another MP on Fraud Charges '

MP MARGARET MORAN a Luton South MP, was charged with false accounting in relation to £60,000 being falsely claimed in expenses. She faces trial on 21 charges including forgery and fraud relating to bills claimed on another home belonging to her partner between 2004 and 2009.

RECENT NEWS COVERAGE ON MORAN of Luton has stated that she defrauded taxpayers of £80,000 and forged invoices to do with claiming for dry rot treatment at the Southampton home, the subject of the ' flipping ' between the two properties.  She appeared before the City of Westminster Magistrates and has been duly transferred to the Southwark Crown Court in October.  She was apparently the MP for Luton South

' Government Health Care Nursing breaks Law '

The Minister responsible said the Law was there in place to prosecute, but he quickly deflected the matter to being one of co-operation and measures -- all in the face of a report that has revealed that a 30 out of a 100 were failing elderly patients so badly that what they were doing was against the law.  But if you think these people or Health Authorities will be charged? you will have to wait a very long time, it just will not happen.  We've seen in the past where departments have not met the laws laid down have just got away with providing the minimum service required by law.  The law does not apply to them, it is a smokescreen, propaganda continually attached to most of what this government says. This or any government will not prosecute any of its own for just failing to give or do what the law says. they have provided for ways out of it long before they generated the farce of ' the law applies to all ' without favour.

' Member of Benefits Staff defrauds system of £12,000 '

MARK GOLDSMITH-WHIITE a worker in the DWP at Plymouth Benefit Delivery Centre appeared in court charged with defrauding the benefit service of £12,000 by taking money on 22 occasions that he was not entitled to.  He used claims by people who'd stopped making a claim by keeping them active and paid the money into his own bank account.  He was told by the judge that a jail term could not be ruled out!

' DWP Cover-Up on Low Pay figures to hide facts '

It was revealed that an 'Intern' situation was hiding the fact that people were being used as a sort of job-training yet not being paid despite a law on the minimum wage. Some were being given expenses only and told that they were receiving valuable job training, and this also went for MP's who in turn were found to be using unpaid people as ' Interns' to do hours of work for nothing.  It was agreed this cut across the law and the DWP were actively breaking the law but covering-up this fact wherever possible.  The TUC called for more enforcement in the area of low pay in the light of the government itself taking unfair advantage of these ' Interns '

' Council use threats to curb citizen posters in public '

HULL COUNCIL are yet another load of bullies in our list, they threatened Nicola Bayston, a vet, who was putting up posters asking for people to help trace missing pets.   They said she could be fined up to £75,000 if she did not comply with their order.  Yet as she points out --- they, these civil servants can and do put up voting posters and other such notices wherever they want, so yet again there is one law for citizens and no laws for the civil servants... at least no law to worry about with all that Crown Immunity.

' Another MP resigns amid accusations of dodgy behaviour in office '

DR.LIAM FOX - THE DEFENCE SECRETARY suddenly resigned somewhat days before an inquiry into allegations of misconduct.  Most of the case surrounded trips and a best man who appears to have been at 22 meetings and several other places. It also revealed the man had business cards saying he was an advisor to Mr.Fox, who actually denied he'd authorised any such post?  mystery abounds about the strange affair with very few answers being given.  But as we well know -- this is normal in the realms of Government.

' Council Staff in £700,000 fraud '

SEVERAL COUNCIL OFFICERS from Wansbeck District Council are at the centre of a fraud investigation totalling more than £700,000  believed to have been pocketed by them.  The Senior Council Officers will have legal action taken against them at the Northumberland's District Council -- the matter surrounds inflated salaries and expenses -- the file is reported to have gone to the CPS and Northumbria Police.

' Lewisham Council accused of fraud and illegal actions '

LOCAL COUNCILS TRAPPING AND FINING MOTORISTS? not just that -- Beryl Mason says that Lewisham Council rearranged road signs in order to deceive, but she had photographic evidence showing the road as it was with the original signs. She says the council's actions are illegal and a fraudulent attempt to extract money from many road users. The council are obviously hoping that no-one could go up against them or have evidence of a criminal act, but sadly Beryl, councils like Lewisham are corrupt.

' Shame of Bully boy councils who use bailiffs to harass and threat '

ROSSENDALES are a company that hides behind its own lies and the shirt tails of over 150 councils who employ them to seize goods and cash on their behalf --- knowing that a good number of bailiffs act aggressively, threaten and do not comply with any regulations.  This kind of thing is being sanctioned by council solicitors who in turn threaten pensioners and anyone else they can derive their perverse pleasure from.  These bailiffs act like crooks, and ROSSENDALE'S have been carrying out the dirty work for these councils for years.  The fact that the council get some of it wrong in the first place doesn't count.  Once they have instructed and contacted the ' machinery' they just let it happen.  We showed you a case in 'featured lawyers' one solicitor Michael Smith who threatened a pensioner and told him not to speak to anyone about the case after his council paid out and had to right the wrong they did - the firm they hired? -- yes ROSSENDALES.  150 councils are involved in this tyranny allowing bailiffs to act like gangsters.  Web pages are posted by thousands of victims who openly accuse ROSSENDALES of criminal acts that go unchallenged.  We heard that the government have delayed new laws on this subject --- the reason is very obvious.

' Basildon District Council in Council Tax Cover-up '

The mis-banding of property values for council tax higher payments in Basildon was revealed by MP John Baron who said he had absolute proof that this kind of corruption practised by Basildon District Council was Government backed. He said they refused to correct the tax inspector's errors to save money and face. He went on to condemn this deliberate deceit to taxpayers and said 'the whole basis of a fair tax system is undermined if the state conspires to overcharge the public in this way'

' Hove City Council Manager in Drugs Supply Case with Cop '

DARREN SIMPSON a Council Manager at Hove in Sussex was arrested with Cop Boyfriend P.C. GRAYSMARK for moneylaundering. Simpson was stopped in a vehicle check on the A23 out of Brighton, and a cocaine haul valued at £148,000 was found in the car. Simpson was charged with having drugs, and intent to supply.  He was found guilty at a court hearing and is awaiting sentence with two other men.  The case against the disgraced Detective Constable can be fully read on the 'featured cops page --- Sussex Police '

' Sussex Council's blunder passed onto taxpayers '

Around 500 elderly and disabled residents in the West Sussex area will be penalised as a result of a computer glitch in the council's pc accounts. Many of whom are special needs and require all the help they can get are to suddenly receive bills of around £888 and in some cases £2000 because the system did not collect at the right time and led most of these people to think they had already paid. One Watchdog group called it disgraceful!!

' DWP Civil Servant in £40,000 Fraud '

CIVIL SERVANT JANICE LEE a worker in the Department of Work and Pensions was found guilty of defrauding the taxpayer and system of fraudulently claiming £40,000 as a result of lies over child-care costs. Teesside Crown Court heard how she claimed these benefits while she was employed to look at and examine other people's claims. She was bailed to appear for sentencing, the judge said prison would not be ruled out when she appeared at the next sitting.

'Erewash Council and Derbyshire Police under suspicion '

CORRUPTION investigations are underway by WebWatchers NAME AND SHAME who are currently looking into activities by council employees and Police Officers in the Derbyshire Constabulary.  We looked into this council and have the following results that indeed point to a good reason to suspect something.  One report mentioned that after Electoral Fraud Claims, a  journalist investigating was beaten up, and the matter was being investigated by the police?  in another -- The Ombudsman was accused of being in league with the council in regard to Council Officers practising deceit and lies over the processing of public complaints. Trevor Nunn who began looking into it and collating material said there was proper and undeniable evidence proving this.  Another report featured Councillor Robert Dockerill who was fined £10,000 at Birmingham Crown Court for downloading Child Porn and indecent images of children from the Internet onto council computers.  The former teacher at Loughborough Grammar School, was disqualified from holding office at the council.

'Corruption of Civil Servants'

16 Counts of corruption involving bribe payments to M.O.D employees were exposed when the FSO mounted an investigation. James McGeown director of VIS Security Solutions managed to acquire contracts worth £16.2million while paying bribes to William Marks, the Deputy Senior Commercial Officer for the Ministry of Defence.  McGeown pleaded guilty to corruption.  William Marks was paid £66,500. Another civil servant, John Symington received £18,000, he pleaded guilty to 4 counts of corruption. Carol Kealey, sister of Marks, obstructed the investigation police when they were investigating the financial affairs and it was she who conducted financial transactions for Marks through a bank account in her name.  McGeown was also charged with money-laundering, the case took six years due to the complexities involved.

' Derby Lib-Dem Council Leader is given Suspended Sentence '

DERBY DISTRICT COUNCIL BOSS MAURICE BURGESS was given a nine month suspended prison sentence at Nottingham Crown Court.  He pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a 7 year-old boy twenty-three years previously. it was also read out in court that he had another conviction in 1971.

' Edinburgh Council Officials in Corruption Probe '

FIFTEEN COUNCIL OFFICIALS are being investigated for corruption at the City Council, and all have been suspended while the Lothian and Borders Police carry out an investigation. When claims of bribery being rife at the City Council's Building and Conservation Programs Department were shown in a BBC Programme ' Scotland's Property Scandal' appeared.

'Council ordered to pay £3,000 compensation for excessive delays '

BRIGHTON AND HOVE COUNCIL appeared in court after causing delays and unreasonable stress to a tenant who had to wait more than a year to return to his flat that needed urgent attention.  The tenant found himself subject to being fobbed off and disregarded each time he approached the council about the time it was taking to fix the property.  Staff were said to have engaged in using excuse after excuse without thought to the claimant's well being or circumstances.... leaving the man with no alternative but court action.

' Lib-Dem Council Candidate and Canvasser jailed for 3 years for Child Porn '

KARL LINDON a candidate for Aylesbury Council was given 3 years in prison after being caught in a paedophile ring of 47 traffickers of child porn.  Police found 2,500 indecent images of children which he swapped with others online and by post.

' Disgraced Council Boss Investigated over Drugs '

FORMER GLASGOW COUNCIL BOSS STEPHEN PURCELL found himself being investigated by the police over drug use involving cocaine criminality, it was also stated that 'other matters' were also being reviewed and under consideration.  It centres around council contracts and that they may have been obtained corruptly in circumstances pointing to an irregular award for services.  As rumours and allegations arose, council members began ' the denial' procedures often used in these matters.

' DWP Civil Servant steals £24,000 '

MARK HAMILTON, a JobcentrePlus civil servant admitted in court to stealing blank giro checks from the office and cashing over £24,000 for himself over a period of seven months at the Glasgow JobcentrePlus Office.

' 20 Members of Benefits Staff are Disciplined '

TWELVE MEMBERS OF STAFF IN THE JOBCENTREPLUS, Four from The Disability and Carers Services, Two from the DWP Pensions Department, One from The Child Support and One from the Department Corporate Centre were disciplined over breaches of data-protection and inappropriate use of personal data was admitted by Stephen Timms the Employment Minister in a public statement.

' Council Housing Officer in Fraud '

ANDREW MARSH, a council officer in Sheffield was jailed for two years and eight months for his part in a VAT Tax Fraud with a South Yorkshire Policeman.  He with others set up a bogus company in Sheffield called 2Go and set about claiming millions in VAT refunds on goods that were never sold or bought -- there were 6,000 fake business transactions invented to make it all look legitimate.  The Police said it was one of the biggest tax swindles ever attempted.

' Council Tax Bailiff in Tax Fraud'

A Lancashire Council Worker, STEVE HARRISON, who was employed as a council bailiff was dismissed after being found guilty of submitting false documentation.  He pleaded guilty at Fleetwood Magistrates Court to aiding and abetting the evasion of liability?

' Story Suppression by Minister fails in court '

CABINET MINISTER CAROLINE SPELMAN lost in the High Court when she tried to keep a story concealed --- It was concerning her son Jonny Spelman who played for the England Under-15's Rugby squad.  He had been found taking a banned steroid drug, but Environment Minister Spelman sought a gagging order which was not given in court. The judge ruled that the public had a right to know.

'Civil Servants waste £31billion over incompetency '

The National Audit Office reported in an annual assessment of government departs that £31billion pounds were wasted on poor skills within the civil service. It pointed out billions were squandered on 17 projects mainly in the IT area, the worst department coming under fire was the M.O.D.  The report concluded that these people were poorly trained or qualified in the areas they were dealing with especially in the contracts awarded and given.

' Conning the Public -- Fiddling the figures '

MASSAGING THE FIGURES OR STATISTICS -- is rife in public bodies as often suspected but never shown, the reason being for this is 'TO LIE' to conceal the truth -- so we took a closer look at this and show just the little lies

THE POLICE SERVICE and The Facebook Racism incident claimed publicly there were only 150 cops involved; saying this over and over in various press statements.  We dug further and more widely to finally unearth one other report saying it was 187, the figure had been changed so that 37, twenty-five percent of it just vanished.

Staying with the Cops --We have the Met Spending Fraud inquiry that announced publicly that 40 cops had been investigated, but further digging revealed that another out-of-the way statement admitted to 60 cops, so there had been a third drop in the public statement, 20 had vanished.

The HMRC were into the same lying procedures too, allowing a drop in the publicly stated figures of civil servants dismissed or disciplined by changing the offences -- downgrading as it is called!! re-modelling the system of accountability to only reflect on those that could now be downgraded to error or mistake in the new appraised system of fiddling.  On one set of publicly claimed figures the claimed 100, but digging around it changed on another statement to 369.  Later public statements widely publicised said 116 members of staff had been dismissed, but after some digging around it changed to 294.

The DWP annually change their figures, altering reports and again, issuing a public statement that has false figures -- but not according to them! as they have re-assessed offences in the staff Disciplinary process downgrading a sizeable figure to ' errors and mistakes' thus being able to take them out of the figures and tell themselves convincingly it isn't a lie and they haven't conned anyone?

Well it doesn't wash, it is false accounting (a criminal act in other situations) they should learn that they must tell the same lie all the time in the hope to get away with it convincingly, but even then, websites like ourselves will expose them for what they are.

' £438,000 of taxpayers money spent on renting trees?'

A DOZEN RENT-A-TREES have been contracted by MP's for their offices down at the side of the River Thames it has been revealed. This report has come to light only because of the Freedom of Information Act, otherwise it would have been nicely hidden out of sight.  It is said they feature in the courtyard of Portcullis House, and were imported from Florida.  Their maintenance per year is around £32,500. Even the cost of Portcullis house was £235million way beyond the first costing price of £165million estimated.

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL AGREES TO £1,000 a day DEAL for aide to Mayor --- The council is said to be cash strapped and in poverty. MP Eric Pickles accused them of wasting taxpayers money saying it was astonishing how one of the poorest boroughs could squander public cash in this way.  -- They can and do Mr.Pickles!

COUNCIL ROW LEADS TO PUNCH THAT BREAKS DENTURES -- Tory Council member Penny Jackman slapped UKIP member Mike Beggs at a 'counting session' for the seat on Lymington and Pennington Council in Hampshire. Mr.Beggs who received an apology afterwards is considering legal action after he discovered he had a repair bill of £1,000 to his dentures which were broken in the fracas.

KENT COUNTY COUNCIL FACES TRIBUNAL -- Geoff Stevens took the council to an employment tribunal for discrimination. He claimed that Chiefs in the council were monitoring his phone calls including a call he made to his doctor to see if his claimed condition was true. A council spokesperson refused to comment on the case.

£8.5MILLION SPENT BY MINISTER ON OFFICE RENOVATIONS!! --- Cabinet Minister, Francis Maude was in charge of eliminating and cutting down waste of taxpayer's money, when it was found out that he was having millions spent on renovations at Whitehall. A spokesperson claimed that there would be no savings really if they didn't go ahead with the renovations!! .... maths is obviously not a strong point in the Government.

'MP in £13 expenses scandal '

MP ADRIAN BAILEY a labour MP claimed £13 for attending a Remembrance Day service --- The MP Chairman of the Commons Business, innovation and skills Committee earning around £80,000 a year tendered the expense along with a donation of £3.15. It was revealed that he often claimed on coffee, cake and other snacks, which is approved by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority?

' MP in assault-brawl case avoids jail and resigns '

LABOUR MP ERIC JOYCE escaped going to jail after appearing at Westminster Magistrates Court where he was given a fine of £3,000, a 12 month community order and three month ban on entering public houses. He was convicted of brawling when he assaulted MP Stuart Andrew and then political aides -- Luke McKenzie, Ben Maney, and Labour Whip Philip Wilson. He pleaded guilty to four counts of assault and was ordered to pay compensation to his victims of £1,400. The former soldier of The Black Watch has now resigned from the Party.

' Major donation for access gaff embarrasses Tory Party '

The conservatives found themselves being branded as the 'old values - old ways' party not to be trusted when Tory Treasurer PETER CRUDDAS was caught on secret cameras offering to connect the donor with a special seat and invitation to see David Cameron or any other Cabinet Member.  For £250,000 he said he could arrange this as he talked to Sunday Times Investigate Reporters who posed as donators interested in getting special favours for a financial donation to the Conservatives.  He has since resigned when it became publicised, but on top of that came Cameron's refusal to name the donators he entertained at special dinners. Then hours later having seen this as a glaring mistake, he offered up just a few saying that this was open accountability?

'Ministers in Cover-Up over council tax Scandal '

UP TO 700,000 RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN OVERCHARGED BY COUNCILS -- The wrong banding tax, wrong assessments have been going on under a cloak of secrecy -- Ministers have been accused of hushing the matter up, and they knew about it in 2005.  They implicated the HMRC who hide in the shadows on this one, who did nothing to urge councils to come clean.  The matter was exposed when ministers were forced to reveal the papers and notes of a Whitehall Meeting.  It was said by Caroline Spelman ' The Government has been caught red-handed' fiddling council tax to make families pay more' -- using their misguided legal powers to extract cash without question.

'Retirement Plan for Council Staff well funded by Taxpayer'

The taxpayer again pays out something in the region of £1 billion so that staff retiring early can benefit from a full pension. This is said to have been casually going on for three years, and all perfectly within their own rules as claimed by the Civil service.  40,000 staff had their pensions topped up who were leaving before their official retirement age. The figures gained by The Daily Mail as obtained by the freedom of information act are as follows:  Financial Year ending 2011 -- Wiltshire £2.4 million -- Stoke-on-Trent £3.1 million --- Tower Hamlets £3.4 million  -- Islington £2.85 million  -- Hertfordshire £6.3 million -- Gateshead £3.5 million  --- Cheshire East £2.7 million --- Bolton £4.45 million. 167 other local authorities failed to give any figures.  Some good money there?

' Care Quality Commissioner Inspector took Bribes '

A Northamptonshire Care Home Inspector 'not named' has been arrested over faking of reports and money laundering by the City of London Police.  It is stated that a whistleblower reported the 43 year-old woman who works with the CQC. They said they had investigated the allegations concerning the Inspector and found them substantiated and immediately terminated her employment before referring the matter to the police. They added that the Inspector failed the providers and the organisation and failed to protect the vulnerable elderly who use those services.

' Councillor takes feud too far is convicted of harassment '

BRENAN MURPHY a former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate appeared before Chester Magistrates Court and was found guilty of prolonging a hate and victimisation campaign against his neighbour. Murphy who's garden backed onto the Disley golf-course in Cheshire was fined £300 and given a two year restraining order banning him from speaking to neighbour Christopher Boyd. He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £1,500. He was charged with ' committing harassment without violence '

' Ex-Cop and Benefits Fraud Investigator caught cheating '

IAN HARRISON a Benefits Fraud Inspector with the DWP, formerly a Police Officer, appeared before Blackpool Magistrates Court charged with obtaining disability benefits fraudulently. The claim for a back injury originated from when he was in the police force....and claimed benefits....however, he got better and still went on claiming and incredibly took up employment as a Benefits Fraud Officer going after false claims!!  The court sentenced him to a nine weeks suspended jail sentence ---suspended for two years. It is reported that the 70 year-old has paid back the improper payments (he received £10,000 the higher rate disability allowance per annum).

' Town Halls to be curbed yet again in regard of snooping '

Yet again we have the old snoopers game going on, which was going to be curbed before, being promised to curb their powers again......with what success?   Councils and Town Halls are reported to have accessed private data, and civil liberty campaigners want them barred from getting Internet e-mails, texts and more. The Police have jumped up from their guns and truncheons to say they need to get at publicly private info because of terrorists!   The report says 400 councils are able to access all electronic private data made available to them using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. In 2011 134 councils snooped into more than 1,800 items of electronic data using the Act to absolve themselves and cry 'special privilege and Crown Immunity' so as far as we can see, they will carry on as usual.

' The one that will get away -- Expenses cheat deemed unfit for trial '

FORMER MP MARGARET MORAN has been said to be unfit to stand trial in a result of cheating her expenses by £80,000. The Luton South MP is said to be in poor health and suffering from heavy depressions.  Her condition was submitted to Lewes Crown Court through consultant forensic psychiatrist Philip Joseph.

' Council Finance Officer steals from the vulnerable ill '

CHRISTINA HOOLIGHAN, a council finance officer with Trafford Council in Greater Manchester, appeared before Manchester Crown Court charged with theft. It was heard in court that she faked documents in order to pilfer cash from mentally ill people who trusted her.  She handled the budgets of around thirty people who could not and didn't have the capability to understand such involvements.  It is said she grabbed more than £10,000 over a ten month period. She admitted to four counts of fraud, and was told she could face prison when she returns for sentence on the 23rd of May.

SPECIAL NOTICE -- What you see here, is but a fifth of what there actually is. We have contributors/agents in Bristol, Glasgow, Hampshire and Bedfordshire, which leaves many areas, towns and villages out of our radar and reach -- so we do not see all press reports or incidents they publish -- even though we do try to access information from all other areas.

We shall come back soon with many more cases of unaccountable civil servants.

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