I do not feel sorry for the bod or his manager or anyone in government.
The fact is they broke the law on data protection, they broke the law on not doing a proper risk assesment, they broke the law on not doing a dissaster assesment, and they get away with it every time.
Remember all the tax credits they paid and then made poor people pay back. Pensioners paying back £2000 etc. When I was eligable for tax credits I had to sign a bit of paper saying that I had checked and was paying the correct ammount (it's in the small print now) only I rang up and asked for the formula and they would not give it to me, this is illegal too. You cannot ask someone to sign something without giving the relevent information. I have been told that Brown was told it was unimplementable by the senior bods at the tax office and he said do it anyway.
I know people whose tax returns were always wrong. Always.
The tax office would threaten to send round balifs when I was on the computer as having paid. It was my resposibility to prove my inocence and pay the bank to write to them to prove the money left my account and went to them. The bank said ring again we get this ALL THE TIME. I did, got someone else, "ok sir I will check the computer, oh yes you paid months ago, forget the letter" This happened more than once.
This was at the same time that they had owed me aswell as thousands of other self employed hundreds of pounds for three years due an error in their system. So I pay and get threatend, they don't and I wait three years. Legally they should have paid in six months. I could have put a hold on their account untill they paid. Imagine that, the IR not being to do any finacial transaction untill the paid little old me. Only that law they bought in for everyone else don't apply to them.
They are useless, absolutely useless.
They have civil servents who know what they are doing and ignore their advice, then they give them an unimplementable task and blame them when it goes wrong.
How many computer programs commisioned by the gov don't do what they should or cost many times more than they should because they kept changing the specs rather than taking advice. The police have a network of computers that cannot even talk to each other.
Then I get told that not enough of us vote. Well sorry mr politician I'm either at work trying to earn enough to pay your taxes or on the phone trying to sort out your incompetance, I don't have time to vote.
PS. the local politician came round to our door and said
politician "hello I'm mr x from the y party"
The missis " hello I'm mrs o'connor, what is your main policy for this area"
politician " I'm going to ban all the big lorrys from the road the shops are on to make it safer for your kids"
The missis " really, is that a good policy to have?"
politician" well yes everybody is really behind it, I think there is enough local support to get it through, I have had a great responce on the doorstep"
The missis " thats not what I ment, a vast majority of this local area is employed by the industrial estates that feed of that road, so if you stop the lorrys how will they survive. The road being their only access and all?"
politician"but everybody says it's a good idea"
The missis " but it's not is it? It's a stupid idea"
politician"but everybody says it's a good idea"
The missis " but it's not is it? common sense says it can't be done"
politician"but everybody says it's a good idea"
we are both now laughing at him and he still did not get it.
A future pime minister in the makeing?
by Tomo » Nov 21st, '07, 18:45 
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