Letter to Mr Beaney, Home Office,1st November 2011
Dear Mr Beaney Ref T16534/11
Re your letter 26/Oct/2011.
You have failed to comment on ou r concerns as we and No 10 would have wished, you claim “we can only comment on government policies that we are responsible for”. There were many things described in our letter that the Home Office were ‘responsible for’ that helps destroy ‘good governance’. Read some of the HOs ‘variations on anarchy’ below.
We claimed that the gross stupidity still plagues the dysfunctional Home Office. We pointed out the crass neglect, how a criminal, a conman with ‘much previous’ – and hardly any education that would warrant rapid promotion in any ‘intelligence’ set up; easily bluffed his way to become head of an HO investigative unit within the sub-standard UKBA.
The unworldly ‘couldn’t care less’ HO put the criminal in charge of millions re immigration housing projects.
One sees the HO ‘unfit for purpose’ culture pulsating right through this dumfounding employment of a known ‘conman with previous’ all within our ‘security set-up’ It’s not the first time that criminals have ‘set up shop’ within the moronic Home Office – hardly safeguarding the state.
The Home Affairs Committee recently claimed that it had listened to a ‘litany of inept acts’ by the Home Office re immigration, it severely criticised the HO for making overpayments to both staff and asylum seekers totalling some £4m last year, and for paying some £14m in compensation claims? Just how many Home Office ‘balls-ups’ did this £14m cover?
The public are now well aware that no matter how incompetent HO staff is, they are still paid millions for abject failure. It’s a case of a corrupt system that allows arrogant mandarins from virtually all depts, to behave like bandits as they loot from the public purse with much expertise. These HO Overpayments are ‘policies that the HO is responsible for’.
In our letter 23/5/11 that you have referred to, we claimed that ‘public sector corruption is endemic – so prevalent that it needs to be seen for what it is – a crime against the state. To help keep the bastards honest, we suggested a ‘mandatory prison sentence’ for theft from the public purse’. This we felt applied to the Home Office just as much as it applies to other government depts. Theft from the public purse is a common public sector vice, the Home Office should comment on ‘mandatory prison sentences’ for public sector theft.
Recently the HO came in for criticism from Keith Vaz Chairman of the Home Affairs committee who said “He was shocked at the number of cases where the Home Office had simply not turned up at hearings”. One is reminded of HO contemptuous disregard for the rule of law, when a judge attacked the HO over its ‘lies and arrogance’ in an immigration related court case – where the HO failed to turn up, ignoring the judges request to do so. The judge said “ I have never known such arrogance, they consider themselves above the law” The HO in usual lying mode and despite evidence to the contrary, denied knowledge of the court order to appear before the judge. “How convenient – burying their heads in the sand and telling lies” said the judge. One sees the Home Office operating not so much from within the ‘corridors of power’, but as from an open ‘cesspit of contempt’ that destroys all chances of democratic government.
The anarchic Home Office elite are forever capable of showing a bewildering mix of arrogance and excruciating abuse against the nation’s interest, its most evil act against the British people, was allowing the nation to be flooded with immigrants and foreign criminals. This treacherous 5th column crime against the people – was committed by conniving HO mandarins - variations on anarchy indeed.
The idea that the mediocre Home Office is in charge of our borders is just as frightening and bewildering as the seriously dysfunctional Revenue being in charge of our taxes – error after error – virtually day-by-day.
There has been much criticism re HOs arrogance and its unsuitability to safeguard the nation’s streets - violent criminals were wrongly released after another cocktail of blunders. How can one forgive the HO as some 1500 people were wrongly branded criminals. We have been calling for League tables showing departmental corruption, incompetence fraud and theft etc. We feel sure the Home Office would be listed as being one of the most inept and arrogant of government departments throughout the whole world – it is the nature of the beast to be thoroughly despotic - and think nothing of it.
Yet the Home Office’s stated purpose in life is supposedly “Working together to protect the public”, it cannot do this without getting rid of its massive quagmire of squalid ineptitude that causes its entrenched dysfunctionality and its continuous abuse of ‘good governance’.
We also claimed that the HO is alarmingly high on the list of blatant blunderers in relation to safeguarding the state. Some 5000 criminals who should have been deported still remain here. We think the HO should have answered this accusation re its inept handling re foreign criminals.
There were points made in the PMs letter that had a bearing on the HOs insularity and contempt for ‘good governance’. We claimed that the civil service needs to move away from its culture of self-interest, and adopt a mind-set whereby honest accountability to public service becomes its first priority. Such accountability would help the HO to overcome its arrogance and bureaucratic failure that straddles its many governmental functions.
There was no evidence of HO staff improvement after thousands went on a training ‘wheeze’ in a four star central London hotel. A recent NAO report found “a significant number’ of civil servants lack skills in various areas of government (supposedly around 40/50%). The lack of skills was so severe that MPs took evidence and found that the gap in skills is now a major problem. Despite its long term ‘staff problems’ Home Office mandarins never bothered to face the fact that ‘lessons were never being learned’ by their staff. Arrogant HO bureaucrats were satisfied in providing a sub- mediocre service to the public, especially re immigration and control of criminals.
Transparency International tells how bureaucratic inefficiencies leave an ‘open door’ to fraud and corruption. The latest Home Affairs Committee report touches on the Home Office’s dodgy financial awards. The above are some of the questions that the Home Office is ‘responsible for’ they deserve an answer.
Mr Beaney you have copied our letter to the UKBA who you claim should reply to us direct? You then add that - if you do not receive a reply - I would suggest you write to them again?
Mr Beaney, your crass directives (we have been hung out to dry for some 8 years) is an indication that the HO is far from losing its ‘unfit for purpose’ tag. It’s difficult for the electorate to believe that the civil service was formed to serve the public, this ideal has long been lost, especially within departments such as the Home Office.
People around the world are rising up against bureaucratic corruption, they are no longer willing to remain subservient to contemptuous governments; they see much abuse by officialdom, with little chance of ‘good governance’ appearing on the horizon.
An International Labour Organisation report suggests that the risk of general social unrest was rising worldwide – many people have often been disenfranchised by despotic government officials – too much government machinery is purposefully sloth-like, corrupt.
The Russian president Medvedev, worried re his indolent unproductive public sector, said “our youth believe that the civil service is an example of how to be successful without the need to apply any effort”. While China launches a training program re ethics for its inept and corruptive civil servants.
In the UK one can see many departmental bureaucrats, much like HO mandarins have taken over and besmirched our ideal of democratic government, the people are now largely governed by incompetent, ungovernable and often fraudulent civil servants who abuse our coffers with some expertise. £30b was lost from our coffers in 2010 - evidence enough that our public sector has been corruptly run for a great number of years.
The latest incident re HO anarchy came about when the government, appalled by the enormous cost of the 140,000 credit card fraud, asked departments for information re its credit card spending – the HO declined such information?
Yours sincerely AW&I Tanner cc to all interested in public sector fraud and corruption of ‘good governance’