Mr Brown, good to see you safely returned from your trip to India, where I’m pleased that you felt it necessary to remind the Indian government how good you have been to them by issuing 375,000 UK IT work permits per year for the past 5 years to Indians, so I felt it only just that I should remind you, that as a Minister, you are a public servant and as such answerable to the British people, and that the laws of this land as written by Government, are applicable to citizen and government alike.

 

  • if you or your government sell Peerages for loans or donations, that’s fraud.
  • if you or your government waste taxpayer money on failed IT schemes and then hide it, that’s fraud.
  • if you or your government destroy British IT workers with legislation (IR35) and then import cheap foreign labour to fill those jobs, that’s fraud.
  • If you penalise the weakest in society, yet allow the richest to escape (HMRC estimate nearly 50bn in uncollected tax from rich and overseas residents) – that’s fraud.
  • If you skim pensions plans then let those plans collapse without compensation, that’s fraud.
  • If DWP are wasting £167 million each year due to ‘error and mistakes’ in the Benefits system, and its not fit for purpose, that’s fraud.
  • NPfIT - £40bn of wasted tax money on a programme that will never work – that’s fraud.
  • 200 meetings of the Smith Institute at No.11 for free, if I could find a venue to do that for me, the tax office would consider it to be a payment in kind, and apply tax to it, so we consider possibly – fraud.
  • Imposing new airline taxes before parliamentary approval - thats fraud.

 

Fraud is Fraud, fraud is theft.

 

No ifs, No buts

 

If you break the Law, you risk facing an interview under caution, and even a criminal record.

 

And remember, following an arrest, using the powers granted to the police for search and seizure, I am sure that much more would come to light.

You wouldn’t take any of the above from British business or individuals, so we should not take it from Government.  Its time to start using this governments laws properly, on government.