The NHS 'Almost Killed Me'...

LOL... Ummm I think the only way is throwing darts at party heads pinned on the wall. hehehe...

To be honest, I'm losing faith in all of them. On General Election Day, I'll emigrate! makes life easier!

There is one good thing on May 2nd 2015, I get my new mobile phone.

We get away from all this by going on "Mars One" in the year 2020! No more dictatorship or governments for that matter!

A) welcome , join the club

B) moon and Mars already booked, try outside solar system.

C) if another person on your planet, asteroid etc the party politics will start up again.

D) if you want company take a mirror. 

What about tactical voting to get the worst ones out that are in now?

Then it has to be the Raving Loony party - the only sane ones

Tactical George, tactical! The only other party with any chance of gettings these monsters out is Labour, you know it, eveyone knows it!

That is unless you become prime minister? Yay vote for George!  Why didn't I think of it before.

Well Georgia I might sacrifice myself and accept the miserly pittance allowed th Prime Minister, the expense allowance so wholly inadequate and suffer the rides in the chauffeur driven jaguar to first class flights to conferences in super expensive hotels. Oh dear oh dear, and waving to my adoring fans who are desperate that I allow them to pay more in taxes . . . . 

I would suffer all that and more if only to avoid governments lead by Dav, Deputy PM Ed or PM Ed DPM Dav.   

Have I just woken from a nightmare screaming, "no no no no no no,no" and been carted off the the loony bin?  

Well, the thing is the guy said as an excuse "Sir, it maybe sent out in error!" so then my wife butted in and said "You, class over 20 letters sent out - by mistake?" - even your lies don't add up.

He paused many times when we asked numerous questions because we had the figures and dates in front of us. Most of his answers were "Well, it's not on our system!" - Now, who do you believe?

Tomorrow, I will see first hand in the bank - I put off appointments to go to the bank, so we can get the required details of payments, descriptions of departments and dates.

Would you believe he even said with bank statements we will still need to prove it all. How do you win?

Be as crafty as a sepent and as gentle as a lamb?

Hi Les, it quite the fire is belief that out rages behaviour of very journeyer government servants. There are so ignorant that their abilities are a structured to reading information from the computer screens which form the parameters of their daily tasks. They presume that what they are reared cannot to be other than accurate and relevant. Anything outside of those parameters does not exist for them.

A tax department decided for reasons best known itself to open a second tax account for my wife. They then proceeded to tax her income for a second time. No amount of discussion or pleading or explanation or evidence of the correct tax office made the slightest difference. A visit to the local tax office gained the agreement of an experienced clerk that indeed there was a duplication . An appeal against the second assessment failed because the figures in it were correct. The double amount of tax was a 'collection' problem.  In the end we paid over £2000 of duplicate tax to avoid the huge penalties and interest.

I submitted the tax return for the next year to the correct office only. A few weeks later the assessment was issued and the overpaid tax was returned without comment. Happily I have had no further contact with the office which created the spurious records. I still feel outraged at this appalling abuse of power. It seems to me to illustrate the same sort of difficulty that Les has just described. It also illustrates that this appalling abuse and incompetence runs through more than one department of government. 

Ridiculous as it seems we the taxpayers are paying the salaries of these incompetent clerks, their managers, the designers of these faulty systems and the politicians who are their masters.

 

That George, is a well thought out piece of written work there my friend. I must admit it is very much to the point where my wife and I are just starting from. Tomorrow, a trip to the bank it will be, but the way the system works, I may be able to get dates, times, descriptions and amounts - but one problem may even bring that evidence to an halt. That is if the DWP want it it on Bank headed paper, because by the Data Protection Act 1998 the bank is not obligated to print out transactions from our account further back than 7 years.

Surely, if I can produce a piece of paper of the exact dates and amounts with descriptions the DWP is quite capable at looking in to the correct department that dealt with the Social Fund Loan at that time. But to be honest they will refuse on principle and require it all on headed paper. The problem with the DWP and evidence from their own departments makes no difference makes one wonder why they put on stupid statements/letters "Please keep for future reference". That to me is a pointless statement when they do not even class that as evidence themselves.

We have been going through paperwork over the weekend, and can still find no statements from 2005 and only a few from 2006. I noticed we are not the only people they have done this to either, some people have letters stating they owe them unpaid loans from 14 or even 20 years ago? Who keeps bank statements from this period of time or letters for that matter? Not, a single person as yet beat their system because of the lack of evidence, so hopefully I can hope that we get a bit further with an "Ace up my sleeve", if all else fails.

Regards,

Les.

It occurred to me, with a feeling of sinking despair, that those in charge may have a sense of humour. 

Ugh? Are you alright Les? May I help you up from the floor? There now, here's a strong cup of tea. I sure it is not that bad. Just a simple case of in depth, mind numbing, unimaginative incompetence. 

Just a thought, while you sip that tea and those involuntary shudders become less frequent, how many years is it in law before the burden of proof switches from you to them? They have not issued statements of indebtedness since ....? 

Perhaps we could bring Moses back? Well he sorted the Egyptians out.