I have been complaining for some 4 years about the way we (my wife and I) have been corruptly handled by the Valuation Office Agency aided and abetted by the Parliamentary Ombudsman.

I intend to post letters sent to Whitehall, often refering to the public sectors incompetence fraud and corruption, and to show to the public how civil servants are often protected by a well honed cover-up regime/industry!

Open LETTER TO GORDON BROWN 25th May 07

I have recently written to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, indicating that I considered myself to be a whistle-blower in relation to the public sectors corrupt complaint procedures, and the Parliamentary Ombudsman's cover-up involvement with the corrupt VOA.

We have found that the Ombudsman's protection of public sector staff is merely protecting the abominable status quo, namely a pathetic workforce. I am reminded of the respected Dept. of Economics, Bristol University, who wrote of the public sectors "Poorly qualified workers". No wonder John Reid found them 'unfit for purpose'!

Such unqualified protection by ombudsman and others allows the continuing proliferation of severe incompetents that eventually leads to a severe dysfunction of public service as found within the Home Office. Gross humiliation to all Brits!

The same blind ombudsman protection of incompetent staff was given to your very own VOA, the same staff incidentally that you want to push into our homes to snoop around! I would suggest they be unqualified to address the British public in an honest manner? We have evidence of their fraudulent behaviour.

Despite your departments reluctance to take note of these corrupt acts (we received no answers) it will be well aware of the corrupt handling of my case by your VOA. Your staff will be aware that I am a war pensioner lately trampled on by corrupt ombudsman insidious retaliatory evening telephone calls etc.

As a very young man I volunteered to fight Adolph Hitler and his decrepit political crew. Only to find that now, as a war pensioner in my eighties, suffering the effects of cancer; I have to fight an overwhelmingly powerful undemocratic Ombudsman and her decrepit crew, in order to disclose much public sector corruption! We are also suffering a long "hanging out to dry routine" by the FOI squad, who in one mad "old pals" collusive moment claimed the VOA had made an "HONEST OVERSIGHT"?

Is this how old soldiers of the realm should be treated? Like other veterans and front-line soldiers I put my life on the line!
Is this what's in store for our present front-line men? Will they be kicked onto an undemocratic dung-heap of a political complaints system created by the Parliamentary Ombudsman's self-protective skulduggery?
I have a strong attachment to front-line soldiers - I remember asking that war pensions be raised, meagre war pensions at the time made life difficult.

The point of going on about soldiers is quite simple; It must be terribly frustrating and embarrassing for them to know that while they are fighting to install democracy in Iraq - putting their lives at risk - British MPs and others are desperately trying to scupper the democratic Freedom Of Information Act?
Are the gallant efforts of our armed-forces fighting for democracy going to be forgotten/enmeshed within Whitehall's political gobbledygook, where people-power (that includes soldiers) has been knowingly usurped by an "artful dodger" style Ombudsman service. Mistaken political prerogatives indeed!

Today, my wife and I are saddled with a corrupt ombudsman decision that has denied us our human rights! I find it difficult to square up the situation where one fights for ones country and then becomes subjected to public sector corruption!

We have strenuously struggled to to inform parliamentarians and others supposedly interested in checking fraud and corruption within the parliamentary system. The most obvious answer one comes up with is this: "That the entrenched cover-up culture within the public sector complaints procedure, is apparently approved by parliament!
The Ombudsman and her misplaced prerogative powers have to end - she and her office are a disgrace to parliament. Another system is needed - but it must be divorced from any further political or local government chicanery!

We have in our old age, been determined to fight hard against the fraudulent public sector complaint procedures - our eyes have been opened to even more governmental deceits, where we have come to realise, with some dread, the power of the pubic sectors Machiavellian collusive cover-up system
WE HAVE WORKED HARD TO SHOW HOW DECREPIT MUCH OF IT IS

We have contacted over many years, the Prime Minister and you as Chancellor of the Exchequer on numerous occasions, also the Lord Chancellor re FOI problem, various Committees such as the Public Administrative Commttee that appeared peeved we should feel so critical of the fraudulent ombudsman service? Also the Committee for Standards in Public Life who, without any investigation of the facts, fell over backwards in declaring for the Ombudsman; blindly claiming that she( Ann Abraham) would have come to her decision only after studying our case?

Is this what cronyism is all about? Standards in Public Life indeed?

We constantly informed the Common Constitutional Affairs Committee, also The Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Adam Ingram MP, We were at one stage even fobbed off to the Communities and Local Government Agency. What?
There was even a Whitehall farce where our letters were sent astray?

We also contacted other joined-up democratic bodies such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Justice, Liberty, Democratic Audit, Universities and many Student Unions. Also newspapers such as The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail. The Independent and the BB Cs Daily Politics. All aware of public sector corruption!

It's nice to see the concern for our soldiers on active service. Every week parliamentarians are making all the correct sad responses to the latest dead soldiers and their families. It would be nice to think that their sacrifices ensured a clean democratic public sector within Whitehall, where the corrupt ombudsman system as we know it can be outlawed! Parliamentarians have known for some time that the Ombudsman only holds office "During Good Behaviour" Why no action taken?

Yours sincerely

AW & I Tanner cc to all interested in governmental corruption!