Your Tax Money At Work

Yes, yes, I know, the police should be above suspicion but really:

…after the force spent three years and an estimated £450,000 investigating allegations that he overcharged his expenses by £90.

This sort of thing is unfortunately common enough within the bureaucracy. A family friend was involved in winding up a govt. supported quango at one time. At issue was the correct pension payments to be made to those laid off. More was paid in consultancy fees to those making the decision than was ever at issue in actual pension payments. Simply the nature of the beast.

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  1. Matthew Avatar
    Matthew

    If you can entertain lurid conspiracy theories about differing attitudes to Cuba and Israel/Palestine being about race, then I think you should have mentioned that he himself believes the action was due to his ethnic backgrond.

  2. Umbongo Avatar
    Umbongo

    Somebody must have signed a piece of paper authorising this expense. Presumably it’s possible – although unlikely, this being a public “service” – to identify who is responsible for this lunacy . . . . and promote him. (cf Sir John Gieve http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/biographies/gieve.htm )

  3. Your tax money at work

    Is it really worthwhile to spend 50,000 times the amount in question to resolve a corruption dispute?

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