David Laws is a crook and should be prosecuted for fraud. The fact of the matter is that he has, by omission, obtained a financial advantage by a deception. That is, that by failing to report any facts that would effect his eligibility, or entitlement, to a benefit or expense, he has knowingly obtained monies he knew that he was not entitled to receive; which he has then given to his partner, who has himself knowingly benefited from the same deception.  David Laws has publicly confessed to misleading (or deceiving) the Parliamentary expenses office in order to claim monies that he knew he was not entitled to receive.

Now even though he says that he’d have received more money had he been honest the fact is that he wasn’t. This is, at best, a point in mitigation only. As any “benefit cheat” will tell you if you haven’t reported a change in eligibility to the benefit man you have to give it all back, and you are likely to be prosecuted as well. Of course the fact that you unwittingly lied, not realising that being honest would have made you better off, does not excuse the offence, in other words it’s not a defence at all. They will hassle you for the money back and prosecute you. Davis Laws is no better than a benefit cheat who has failed to report his cohabiting status.

David Laws seems to think that referring himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards makes it all okay. This is a smokescreen, he’d have been reported anyway. David Cameron and his cronies spent all weekend thinking of how to minimise the political damage caused by having to sack the man in charge of all our money for stealing some of it. So they pretend he’s got there full support (for theft?) he’s not done anything wrong (stealing is okay then?) and we should all be sorry for the little chap. There are a plethora of politicians saying what a sad day this is for poor little David and how he was only protecting his partner - bollocks - he’s a thief - simple as.

This little whining “victim” was of course a banker for years. He is a money man, he’s an expert at money and managing it, he loves money and wants as much as he can get. So what he did was fiddle his expenses to buy himself, and his boyfriend, a much nicer house at our expense. He’s a thief and so is his boyfriend for knowingly taking the money. David Laws knew what he was doing - little banker that he is.

So, dear readers, make a complaint to the Metropolitan Police about this crook. Those other MPs who are being prosecuted have done nothing worse than David Laws has admitted to. They are Labour MPs who are being prosecuted because a Labour DPP authorised it. Let’s see what the Lib-Con-men do about it shall we? Of course we all know they will protect him, because they are all the same - fundamentally dishonest and in it for themselves.  To hear Paddy Ashdown describe him as “Mr Integrity” is a joke, Ashdown may have been fooled by him by him, but this is no disgrace, Laws is a con artist.

The fact is that if he wished to keep his relationship a secret (as he has had to say he did) then he should not have claimed at all. He knew he shouldn’t have claimed the money and his idea that not having joint bank accounts and having separate social lives means he wasn’t “technically” cohabiting or in a partnership is just bunkum. Ask the DSS or the Tax Man. Not all married people or cohabiting couples have joint bank accounts and many have separate nights out, many sleep in separate rooms, not to mention beds. To clutch at these straws is pathetic and shows just how guilty he really is. It also shows he had given the matter thought before he did it, anticipated allegations that may have been made and come up with these excuses. Of course the fraudster always needs an explanation, however weak, to justify himself if caught - ask Bob Maxwell, err, in a seance of course.

David Laws should be sacked from Parliament and explain himself at the Old Bailey like any other sneak thief would have to. He’s no better than us.

Tags: Add new tag, David Laws is a crook

Lord Ashcroft’s Criminal Connections

Bob, the chap with one leg who lives three doors down, bumped into me this morning and he reckons that Lord Ashcroft made all his money from selling cocaine from Belize to the Russian Mafia and then cleaned it all through a network of offshore companies ably assisted by George Osborne and his relatives, who used about thirty million quid to buy a few peerages and a good few changes in the law, helped by the likes of Lord Taylor, who sell their services cheap at a hundred grand a throw.

When I stopped laughing, I said “No, he’s as straight as a die Ashcroft is, there’s no Tory sleaze now you know, they’ve cleaned up their act and David Cameron doesn’t take drugs any more either, except at Christmas, err, and Easter and the odd weekend. But he doesn’t shoot up, no just snorts it. Oh yes and he always sucks on a polo when he does it. Especially if he’s driving.” Bob laughed and laughed.

Vote Tory I say. At least they’re honest about their dishonesty and stick their fingers up at us all blatantly, in an honest and straightforward way. They are clear that they will say whatever it takes to win and then renege on all of it and not give a toss about what we all think. They’ll blatantly focus on putting their hands in the till - just like Maggie, Ken Clarke, Heseltine and the last bunch of Tory “grandees” did. Of course just like those three they’ll fall out over the money, and pretend it’s all about helicopters or inner cities. But you know what you get when you vote Tory: shafted.

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The two most powerful ministers connected with the Justice system are bent. Jack Straw, self proclaimed procedural “expert” doesn’t understand the what Council Tax rebate is…Yeah right, we believe you. So, a big cheese, big head “expert” lawyer doesn’t understand that if you only have to pay half a bill you can’t claim all of it? Of course not, he’s a liar as well as a thief. And a very clever one at that. But perhaps that’s a calumny as well. Now a more pompous, opinionated and chippy bloke you’re not likely to meet. He sells whatever principles he ever had for a few hundred quid. Now realise this: he is a QC, he’s prosecuted petty thieves, ruined careers and lives for less than the money he’s stolen. He’s a bent hypocrite who should be fired, disbarred, arrested, charged, tried and when found guilty given fourteen years as an example to the rest of the crooks in Parliament.

Jack Straw Blags the Swag

What will happen though? Nowt.

Jackie Smith, well, she’s an idiot waiting for a brain cell.

Given that all ministers have a second home and so are investing in the housing market, as well as fixing it, shouldn’t they declare this somewhere? No wonder house prices rocketed up - they were all speculating. Greedy goats will stuff their faces with anything, and these goats are full to bursting. The irony though is that they’re so cheap. For the sake of a hundred grand or so they’ve completely knackered the economy, they’re now trying to prop up house prices to protect their own assets, using our money! Houses make no money, people do. Labour creates wealth, not property. This simple economic fact eludes these greedy goats, intelligence is a stranger to them, their common sense has been clouded by a collective greed, and we are all paying for it.

It looks like half at least could be charged with fraud, ironically under their own Fraud Act of 2007. Now Jack Straw would easily be caught by this, the pompous little twit won’t get charged of course, weasels like him always - well - weasel out of it.

They keep wittering on about the rules, but the rules are effectively the same as the Inland Revenue’s test for allowable expenses, and must be wholly necessary to do the job. Council Tax isn’t allowable, it’s a tax.

Chris Huhne reckons he’s applied the same principles to claiming expenses as he did in business. Hmm. Perhaps the Inland Revenue should dust off its files and check him out, he obviously doesn’t understand that “looking smart” isn’t necessary to do his job and nor is a trouser press, unless laundry is part of an MP’s job, but then again they are all having their dirty linen washed in public so perhaps he can claim for it.

These people are thieves plain and simple, let’s not beat about the bush, they have committed acts of dishonesty and should be arrested. Tony Blair set the standard and his corrupt practices have rubbed off on the rest of them. As for Michael Martin, please will someone put him out of his misery, he’s a joke without a punch line, a living brain donor, and a disgrace.

As a nation we should vote them all out, any of the current MPs who stand should not get any votes at all. We should all vote for someone else, we need 650 independents. If they won’t resign we should collectively sack them. The argument against this is that nothing will get done if Parliament is full of Independents. So what? Leaving well alone is often the best idea. The US does so well because it’s so hard to change anything at all, it’s the opposite over here, it’s far too easy for the greedy, self serving MPs top help themselves and their mates, and sod the rest of us.

Now pompous dimwit Stephen Fry reckons it’s okay to fiddle expenses and he’s done it. So as well as being thick, pompous and not funny he’s a thief as well and as far as he’s concerned that’s okay. Well perhaps the BBC should suspend him, check his receipts and then call the Police. You’ve got to wonder if he’s stopped taking the tablets or if he’s just naturally a complete fool.

With idiots like Stephen Fry and thieves like Jack Straw and Jackie Smith running around it’s hardly surprising that the public sector is fundamentally corrupt, that the Civil Service pay £2000 for a computer you could pick up for three hundred quid at PC World, and that we’re all paying through the nose for their luxurious lifestyles. I mean how can an IT system cost billions of pounds? It doesn’t of course it’s the back handers that cost.

Sack ‘em all, arrest the thieving urchins, and throw away the key.

Vote for someone else!

Tags: Add new tag, Expenses, Fraud, Jack Straw, Jackie Smith, Stephen Fry, Thieves

Phorm, Privacy, Hiding and The Home Office

So Jackie Smith has now decided she won’t be spending £14,000,000,000.00 on a giant database of emails, web pages, texts, phone calls etc. No, she’ll spend £1,000,000,000.00 instead. Why? Well there’s the rub, “privacy concerns”. Yeah right. All this means is that they are definitely going ahead with it but not admitting it. A similar ploy has been adopted by many bent MPs when claiming for empty houses, hard core porn films, butt plugs - erm, sorry bath plugs, and the kitchen sink. In other words it’s another pack of lies.

Phorm is like one of those duck decoys you see them use in the old Tom and Jerry cartoons, it lures in the hapless and,  it has to be said, stupid ducks who get blasted as soon as they are seen. The dimwitted ducks are swimming towards Phorm quacking away about how terrible it is when all the time the hunter (The Home Office) is hiding behind the reeds ready with a massive database with which to whack them over the head and shut them up for good. Phorm is just a commercial application of what the Security Services in this and most other countries have dreamt of for years: an automated sytem of customer/voter/agitator profiling that allows them to spy on everyone.

Phorm is a clever bit of kit, but it’s probably been running for years on behalf of HMG. As we know HMG and the Home Civil Service is riddled with corruption, idleness and self interest. If there’s money in it and it can be applied to advertising, for politicians campaigning, they’ll push it. This will happen all over the world.

The problem is that too many closeted goose steppers and spankers, of both genders and all ages, are of the view that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about. Such aphorisms have an instant appeal in that there is always a certain logic in their construction. However, note the use of the word “you”. The goose steppers and spankers never think it applies to them. Why would it? Daddy drives a Volvo after all. Politicians are the same, believing they’ll always be in power; civil servants think they’re indispensible - confusing this with unsackable. Of course the idea of a giant database is too much to resist for the greedy politicians and civil servants :their hands are itching to have their palms greased by the dodgy IT brigade that feed them and rip the rest of us off. A billion quid? Add a nought more likely.

The Internet is insidious in its destruction of everything: the music business, soon the movie business, the newspaper industry, soon the publishing industry, TV, millions upon millions of back room staff and now privacy.

T. H. E. Ranter believes that the Internet should be crumpled up into a little tiny ball and flung onto a fire to burn forever. While we’re at it screw up mobile phones and throw them on, and cars, and all forms, and all politicians, and all the cranks, crackpots and the generally disaffected or confused who make as much money complaining about it all as the evil doers who put it all into practice. They all piss in the same pot.

Advertising and marketing is what the Internet was created for. It’s what we all do here, anyone who has a website is like any one who has written anything: we all want to be read. We all submit our sites to search engines, count or visitors, page views and so on. We wax lyrical about increases in traffic and sticakbility. We’re no different to Phorm. Phorm is all of us. And now we can all look into the souls of everyone else. So you see Phorm is a force for good, we’ll all know everything about everyone. Won’t that be nice?

Stopphoulplay.com is such a website, it seeks to persuade the casual visitor that people who campaign against Phorm are nutters with their hands in the till taking back handers from the competition. But the campaigners are doing exactly the same thing: using marketing techniques to peddle their wares, which in this case are opinions. Most people don’t give a monkey’s about any of it, they go about their day to day activities blissfully unaware of it all. They will never be adversely affected by any of it. This is why the Internet is such a force for destruction. Greedy self opinionated folk (I don’t include myself in this: I’m not greedy) spend a good proportion of their waking hours glued to a screen, damaging their eyes and stretching their ulna nerves like elastic bands to guarantee RSI and a bad back. Just to make sure the insidious creep of t’Internet stains everyone.

Burn it I say. And that twat who invented it.

Anyone who believes in anything at all would agree with me.

Tags: cranks, data protection act, home civil service, phorm, politicians, privacy issues, Public Sector Corruption

UK Civil Servants Accept Favours and Kickbacks - Official

Institutional corruption within the civil service has been exposed on a large scale by The Daily Telegraph. The recipient of the most back handers is Sir Brian Bender. This is dishonesty and Bender is dishonest. He’ll have done favours for the people who’ve given him money. It’s as dishonest as the behaviour of those corrupt Labour peers. There’s no excuse for it. If it’s legal, it’s a technicality and that’s all. Most ordinary hard working people, people in prison, prostitutes, drug dealers, council workers and taxi drivers to name a few, would agree that Sir Brian Bender is no better than a thief, a shoplifter or a crooked banker. He’s in a position of trust and he’s abused it. He should lose his job, his pension and his liberty, so should the rest of them. They won’t though, nothing will happen. Like that dodgy and arguably dishonest Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, fiddling her expenses to the tune of £100,000. Living at her sisters, yeah right pet, we believe you, paying her rent? Likely, not a liar are you love, eh? Let’s see the proof of payment then. Not likely to do that is she; nothing will happen, she’ll even keep doing it, feathering her own nest and ripping off the taxpayer.

That’s why the IT projects don’t work - back handers to civil servants and bent politicians. There’s institutional corruption at the heart of Government, in the House of Lords and the House of Commons. They should be thrown in the Tower of London and charged with treason - the bent turds. Thieves they are, the lot of ‘em, and they’re stealing off you and me, that’s who - us - if you bought something today, you paid tax on it, and some of it is in Jacqui Smith’s pocket, you didn’t give her it, she nicked it. Simple as that.

Tags: civil service corruption, Corrupt Home Secretary, corrupt peers, theft

Public Sector & Civil Service Corruption

Probably the most obvious example of corruption within the civil service that is operating at an institutional level is in the implementation of IT projects. Other countries’ civil services seem able to utilise IT successfully at a tenth of the cost and in so doing reduce staff levels. Tony Blair called this public sector rationalisation “modernisation”; he lost his job to the Luddite Gordon Brown because of it.

Why do the UK civil service seem unable to utilise IT?

There are several possibilities:

1. Incompetence. This is a possibility but whatever the real reason incompetence is always going to be present, however it is not the only reason.

2. Sabotage. Given that the UK has the most expensive home civil service in the developed world this is likely. Overmanning is probably running at a minimum of fifty per cent and that is without IT. With IT there are probably 75% of the staff that could be made redundant without any impact on service provision. For example the MOD has more civil servants than members of the armed forces. Effectively each soldier has his or her own civil servant, yet they still failed to provide the correct equipment to them in Iraq and none of them ever, ever, ever get fired. So we know they are overstaffed, we know they never get fired and we know they get away with incompetence. All of this is a recipe for corruption on a massive scale. Why sabotage IT? To protect jobs, and more importantly to prevent the greater transparency and the ease of auditing that accompanies it of course.

3. Bribery. Bent civil servants use junior ministers with no powers as dupes to carry the can for their own corrupt practices in accepting kick backs from the IT companies involved.

4. A combination of 3. and 4. This is the most likely explanation, the institutional incompetence is a convenient mask and the sheer numbers of bureaucrats involved allows a kind of mass evasion of blame.

But why do politicians let them get away with it? Well given that the House of Lords is as bent as a nine bob note, and MPs can have dozens of directorships and “advisers” and “sponsors” (Labour MPs are sponsored by the same unions that protect the jobs of millions of unnecessary public servants) it is no surprise really. They all piss in the same cracked and bent pot. Politicians are pretty corrupt at all levels, taking money and favours, garnering “party donations” and the like. How do we know it’s only £18,000,000,000 that these crooks have pocketed? We don’t. This is the figure they are admitting to. So double it or even treble it. Let’s face it, if you or I wanted to have a look at the paperwork that backs these figures up and follow that paper trail to verify it we’d be given the runaround for a hundred years and still be no further forward.

So the Public Sector give themselves massive pension perks, make sure that there are millions of them by sabotaging IT with the connivance of bent contractors and politicians, make sure that the figures are never verifiable and make sure no one is ever to blame.

No wonder UK Plc is bust and sterling is a busted flush.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article5636437.ece

Tags: Public Sector Corruption