Letter to Secretary of State for Justice, 27th October 2008
Dear Secretary of State for Justice,
Your department Ministry of Justice (MoJ), in a letter (18th Sept 2008), informed us that it sent our letter (7/9/08) to the Prime Minister onward to the Cabinet Office. The MOJ claiming our concerns to the PM came under the Civil Service Constitution?
We duly received a letter from the Cabinet Office; ignoring our varying concerns as addressed to the PM re 'open courts' incompetence, unrivalled theft of government property, fraudulent and sometimes corrupt civil servants etc. Instead of dealing with these public sector fraudulent acts the subservient Cabinet Office's 'Propriety & Ethics' team suggested we might contact the Parliamentary Ombudsman? We had been fraudulently handled by the P.Omb; they were out of touch! We have endured enough controlled judicial hearings.
The Propriety & Ethics team should have taken note of how, having complained about the Revenues fraudulent handling of our appeal, we eventually, after 5 years, faced barristers and lawyers within an 'old pals' Tribunal where dodgy lawyers tried to demean our claims against the equally dodgy P. Ombudsman. This untoward protection of the P. Ombudsman action and the demeaning of our case continued within the Tribunal report. Another case of the 'old pals act' over-riding 'the rule of law'!
It would appear that once the public sector cover-up culture has secured a 'corrupt' decision against the complainant, all involved are overjoyed at the 'burying' of such an embarrassment. It becomes a matter of 'honour' amongst like-minded high-echelon scoundrels that they have helped get each other 'off the hook'. The complaint procedure sewers need cleansing, that includes ombudsman, lawyers and tribunals.
It is commonly claimed that Tribunals and ombudsman blatantly fail to make correct judicial decisions. That's why we ask for 'open courts', we realise we have been denied both justice and lawful rights that, would hopefully, be found in a proper court of law before a jury. The MoJ claim "we are responsible in government for upholding justice, rights and democracy"
As someone who put his life on the line in defence of it, I think I deserve to be handed a piece of that hard fought democracy. Can the MoJ and Government prise it away from the public sectors entrenched cover up culture of denial! One has to ask of the MOJ, was it really a serious proposition putting our Prime Ministers letter to the Cabinet Office? Because it appears the Cabinet Office had dropped our accusations like a hot brick, and it looks very much like we are being unethically 'hung out to dry' by the rather indolent 'Propriety & Ethical' team within the Cabinet Office.
The Cabinet Office should have taken note that, in order to allow the electorate to circumnavigate the fraudulent HM Revenue/VOA complaint procedures, we have on numerous occasions called on the MOJ for 'open courts' along with the investigation of a biased Decision Notice from the ICO. Open Courts, we hope would take victims away from the entrenched cover-up culture that has swamped governmental complaint procedures for years and has little or no respect for the 'rule of law'!
We complained about being corruptly handled by the public sectors complaint procedure and 5 years later, ended up facing barristers and lawyers within a Tribunal, who defended the Revenue miscreant who had treated us so fraudulently? It is some years since we dealt with the Parliamentary Ombudsman who invented 'porkies' in an attempt to destabilise our case? We had established, (by VTS Tribunal) that the Revenue was fraudulent in continuously claiming our appeal was invalid!
It had taken us 16 months of struggle to overturn Revenue lies. But having overturned their lies the Revenue by some devious design claimed we would have to go through the corrupt Revenue procedures all over again? Surely this unholy Revenue 'inquisitional torture' is against the 'rule of law'? By this time we had been fighting Revenue fraudulence for some 20 months?
The Revenue then claimed the belligerent miscreant who handled our case so fraudulently, had done so with the 'Best of Intentions'? The lies got worse! It was at this stage we realised that the 'old pals act' was more powerful than the 'rule of law'! The Revenue and staff were trampling on our civil liberties? Having been proved wrong the Revenue/VOA became determined to destroy our case.
At this time, I was due to attend 7 weeks of radiotherapy for cancer; I was devastated to think I was being forced by the Revenue to go through its corrupt complaint machinery yet again.
We gave up our appeal, because of the cancer treatment and the Revenue hassle was all too much! However, we decided to fight on and disclose public sector corruption.We happen to believe in democracy that's what drives us on. We are against all corrupt acts within the public sector wherever it may be. For instance:
In November 2005, we complained to Tony Blair how social workers were arresting innocent parents and having their children put into homes etc, without any fear of the consequences? They were above the law relying on the 'old pals act' to protect them. We pointed out to Tony Blair that there was something seriously wrong and dangerous within Town Halls, where councils and social workers could freely and with absolutely no concern put themselves above the law. Despairing parents, whose family was traumatised, later challenged the council. A gagging order was slapped on them? Public sector contempt and corruption knows no bounds!
The Police, who often help the social services in their fraudulent acts, are quite rightly often under scrutiny themselves. Of late they seem to be regularly playing down crime figures, the nation knows they are helping Ministers to massage crime statistics! It is parliament, MPs and Ministers that have allowed the public sector to become so entrenched in its incompetence and fraudulence! Much of it against the electorate!
There are just too many squalid civil servants within government - it's a disease that has made many government departments suffer the 'unfit for purpose' syndrome. It is of enormous comfort to learn that now, some senior MPs are at last daring to question the quality of civil servants - what kept them?
We have learned since dealing with governmental cover-up culture that it's the old boy network - where the pulling of strings and chicanery flows like a well-oiled piece of machinery. This churns out well-honed deceit so effortlessly, that excuses like 'Lessons will be Learned'; Orwellian type lies, have become an establishment art form! Every cover-up cog is geared towards public sector self-protection, resulting in the abasement of many government critics. It has become a sad reality that this blinkered citadel of squalid put-down manoeuvring against the electorate, should be entrenched within Whitehall and major government departments, especially the HM Revenue.
We would like to suggest that the MOJ concentrate on improving untold thousands of complainants lives by investigating and hopefully abolishing the fraudulent governmental complaint procedures as overseen by ombudsman, government lawyers and quangos etc. However, we see no reason why the Ministry of Justice pushes our request for 'open courts' out to other departments such as the Treasury and now the Cabinet Office?
Yours sincerely
AW & I Tanner
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