Government Thieving.

Fraudulent Accounting
Public companies are obliged to produce accounts which presumably mean something to someone but seem to be more concerned with concealing the truth. However they are audited by outside firms who should be acting in the interests of the share holders and who certify that they are true. Believe them if you want. Various accounting firms have been caught out big time by lying. This system is administered by a government that has its own system of accounting which is fraudulent in intent and in practice but it is not illegal or if it is the men who should be telling us the truth have been intimidated or paid off.

 

Pension Fraud
Want to know the truth? Read Private Eye. The rest? They have agendas.

 

Pension Fund Stitch Up
More Private Eye more truth.

 

Privatization
Selling the telephone business off made sense. Government control meant that it was run by civil servants with  a mentality that precluded thinking and efficiency. The new technology and new management meant that we got a better service albeit not cheaper. Creating competition did force BT, the new phone company to reduce prices and increase efficiency. The left complained bitterly about it when they were in opposition but created their own corrupt variant [ the PFI ] when they got power.

Private Finance Initiatives [ PFI ]
Are a variant of privatization and a very bad one. The system involves a government department arranging for a company to run prisons or whatever on terms which are negotiated by civil servants and politicians. The company pays up front for the privilege and the only real interest that the government apparatchiks have is the amount of money they get to waste on their own boondoggles. It is a way of defrauding the public by preventing them  from  knowing how much money the government is wasting. See page 26 of Private Eye 1148 for more and better details.

 

Personal Finance Initiatives
Having power means having patronage and access to tax payers' money. So many men were going out of the Ministry of Defence and joining defence suppliers that questions got asked and motions were gone through. Blair loosened the rules recently to make it easier for corrupt malpractice to happen. Blair promoted Mandelson after he made  a dodgy mortgage application and beat the rap by means to which we were never made privy. But then Blair is a lawyer. Maggie Thatcher was a tax barrister before she went into politics without two halfpence to rub together. She walked with £62 million. We can look at Blair's place men and wonder just how many are making how much out of us.

 

Cameron's Budget Explained 
Cameron is less obnoxious than Brown but just as dangerous. He has no intention of cutting the gross waste that is government spending.

 

National Accounting Office and Collusion
Is run by Sir John Bourne. Its job is to root out government waste. Bourne has achieved personal expenses of better than £100,000 a year. He does this by staying in the very best hotels and taking his wife along on his foreign trips. What they have to do with auditing is questionable at best. Ministers get to stay in far less luxurious places. Bourne chose to lie about why he settles for the very best of every thing when some one else is paying. He is a useful indicator of real government policy which is grossly wasteful. The source is page 27 of Private Eye 1185

 

National Accounting Office and Collusion II
It does bugger all about  the gross waste [ to wit hundreds of billions ] that Blair and Brown achieved through their PFIs [ Private Finance Initiatives ]. David Taylor, a Labour MP if you please is questioning Alan Williams, the chairman of the Public Accounts Commission about the indifference of the NAO to humungous failures of PFI boondoggles. See page 27 of Private Eye 1186 The NAO comes under the Public Accounts Commission which seems equally indifferent.

 

National Accounting Office and Collusion III
Sir John Bourne has been abusing the expenses and getting away with it for nineteen [ 19 ] years. But Private Eye told the world about him and now he has to settle for the same hotels as mere senior civil servants. I am all broke up about it. He might even do an honest job on the humungous PFI frauds that Brown is so keen on. See page 5 of Private Eye 1187.

 

Bourn Says Whitehall Is Incompetent
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Whitehall needs a fundamental change of culture and practice, Sir John Bourn, the former head of the National Audit Office, has warned. Sir John says his 20-year experience as comptroller and auditor-general has taught him that “fundamental improvements are urgently needed” to address “the gaps in present performance and prospects”.
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Bourne does not bother to say that he spent 20 years allowing gross waste while taking the freebies/jollies/diversions/entertainment/first class hotels and so on. Now that the retirement cheque has cleared he is making noises. See also page 5 of Private Eye 1211 or BOURN AGAIN

 

HMG, Extortion And Fraud
Bourn is in the frame again. As head auditor he has to be crooked - if he wants to keep the job. Elizabeth Filkin was honest. She got sacked.

National Accounting Office and Contempt for the Law
The NAO been flouting the Freedom of Information Act regarding its gross waste on Bourne's expenses. The House of Common's Public Accounts Committee has chosen to swallow his abuses. David Taylow, a Labour MP is the one man publicizing these abuses while the main stream media ignore them. See page 28 of Private Eye 1190.

 

NHS Plc - The Privatization of Our Health Care
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The National Health Service used to plan and fund to meet patient needs, providing free and fair access for all. But in this superb book, Allyson Pollock shows how Labour is destroying this great working class achievement.

Labour pushes the IMF, World Bank, European Union agenda of opening up all public services - water, energy, sewerage, telecoms, post and health - to private firms. So health care is becoming a commodity as in the USA, where billing and marketing make up 30% of health care costs. In the USA, fraud by health care companies totalled $418 billion in 1990-95. For example, Columbia/HCA (allegedly helped by the British consultancy firm KPMG) defrauded the government of $1.7 billion.

In 2004, Labour lifted the ceiling on health administration costs, which had already doubled, cutting clinical care budgets so that there are fewer beds in PFI hospitals. Labour excludes doctors, nurses and health professionals from hospital management, while welcoming failed businessmen.

Surgery performed in private hospitals costs 40% more than in NHS hospitals, because of higher costs and the overriding need to return a profit to the shareholders. Private borrowing is dearer too and the risks are not transferred to the private sector. Labour has arranged public spending data and NHS accounts to hide the huge amounts of public money going straight through the NHS to private companies............
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The Labour Party is the party of the people, isn't it? Not these days it isn't. It is run by light fingered rogues on the make, communist subversives who are controlled by Jews and other undesirables. See also  The New NHS: A Guide: A Guide to Its Funding, Organization and Accountability by Allyson M. Pollock and Alison Talbot-Smith.

 

Pension Fraud
Government accounting is fraud proof. The men who make the decisions are going to get away with it no matter what. They also get to walk rich.

 

World Bank on Governance & Anti-Corruption
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The World Bank views good governance and anti-corruption as central to its poverty alleviation mission. Nowadays, hundreds of governance and anti-corruption activities are taking place throughout the World Bank Group. They focus on internal organizational integrity, minimizing corruption on World Bank-funded projects, and assisting countries in improving governance and controlling corruption.
UNQUOTE
They talk the talk. Do they walk the walk? Stopping loans when things go bad makes a difference. When tyrants are corrupt and stupid there is not much to be done. Mugabe has ruined Zimbabwe. Most of sub-Sahara Africa is going the same way for the same reasons.

Inside the Labour old boys’ network [ 19 March 2007 ]
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None of the men were aware that the new female colleague was an undercover Sunday Times reporter investigating the inner workings of the multi-million-pound lobbying industry. The reporter was interested in the way former ministers and aides have become lobbyists, using their connections to former friends and colleagues who are still in government.
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Politicians have a lust for power which translates into greed all too easily. That is where decent Tories score. Being born into money means not needing to get it while the getting is good. Also  see Top sleaze buster damns Blair legacy but those wonderful people at The Guardian are not amused that their own were caught with their fingers suspiciously close to the till - Ministers accused of helping lobbyists after newspaper sting

 

The end of dollar hegemony
An important piece on financial fraud by the American government. To be fair they are not the only ones. They took over the money system, stopped using gold, substituted paper and printed the stuff so that they could spend it for free, defraud anyone holding honestly come by money and debauch the currency. The Federal Reserve Bank has managed to inflate the dollar down so that it is now worth 2% of its value when they started. Ron Paul is an American politician and explains it all much better than me.

FA Hayek, an Austrian economist wrote The Road to Serfdom. One of his major points is that central planning is inherently inefficient. Remote civil servants can not predict who needs how much of what. Only individuals can do that for themselves. This tells us for example that the National Health Service is going to work badly It is a good argument for small government. He also tells us that socialism invariably leads to more control and becomes communism, fascism or some variant. But this is not quite the point of this little essay.

The Last Enfield
The last rifle to be made at Enfield was a foreign design and a stolen design. They stole the wrong one. Then there was the political meddling, senior officers meddling and shoddy manufacturing as a result. The system will shrug and men will die.