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The report on tax credit overpayments focuses on official errors. Interesting, that 30,000 people complained of errors in April, and the Revenue wrote off 100 overpayments. This is freaking excellent risk management!!
If Tony (Judge us on public services) Blairosi saw his sidekick brown busting his nuts to crunch numbers of winners and losers and treasury savings, way back in '86 when Norman Fowler was SS Minister, and thought "mug's game", i wouldn't be at all surprised...
"Don't work harder, work smarter, Gordon. I mean, look what Fowler had to go through to make those cuts. What's the point of that when you can make much bigger savings by just screwing up the administration? When I'm PM, I'm going to invent Jobcentreplus.
You'll thank me, when you're Chancellor of the Exchequor, and I deliver billions in 'inefficiency savings'...what's that Gordon...? No thank you, I don't believe I do want a Glasgae kiss...whatever that is... Criticism? no...Look. It's quite simple...it doesn't matter a flying fig what really happens... it's only what you say about it that counts. If it goes pear-shaped you just say it's a clearly improved apple, smile and ...ok yah...you can call it lying through your teeth if you must...but they'll never notice..."
heck...maybe a dubious Gordon tested it out on Primarolo first..she got away with saying black's white and the Revenue have hit their stride now... they get out of writing off official errors, by holding TC claimant's responsible for checking the award notices...the same award notices they have had to change on account of the unsurpassed level of incoherent gibberish achieved by EDS' finest... to a slightly less superlative level of incomprehensible...someone will get a knighthood for this...errr...
but most brilliant of all, is the distraction of the 'official errors birdie' away from the breathtaking audacity of the official daylight robbery scam by the Revenue from the poor suckers with kids. Call it an overpayment and hey presto, it's an overpayment. On paper. Officially, only recover 'true losses' to the public purse. Unofficially, don't tell anybody about the policy...including Revenue staff...who can't be expected to read the manual. Keep calling them overpayments...£2 billion in overpayments sounds so baaaad heh the better- paid tax payers will insist they're recovered...who cares about accounting anyway?...though why it's desirable to count overpayments which aren't true overpayments is a baffler ...on no account call them stuff like £10,000 fines for not filling in the right form at the right time...some people could get really upset about that, especially if they realize it hits the bunch of income support losers hardest... or service user fees...the plan to make tax pay for itself isn't completed yet... Definitely do not call it a tax on the poor, we don't want to start Polly Toynbee off again bleating about exploitation... Just make it so complicated to explain so even their MPs don't get it...and it will create its own code of silence...
what i want to know is who woke up to find the horse's ass in their bed?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5275036.stm
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