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March 9th, 2016 
Awake Goy A favourite cartoon of mine depicts a youngster asking his father for career advice. The boy is unsure of which occupation best suits him, organised crime or politics. His father’s advice is that he chooses politics:
It is the same thing, but you don’t go to prison for it.
Few things sum this up better than corruption glibly written off as blunder in government purchasing procedures. Only theoretically can you be imprisoned for sleaze in the West’s elected-dictatorships. However, to be absolutely on the safe side corruption is camouflaged as ‘an error of judgement.’ Ineptness rarely results in inquiry because everyone does it.
Such is the magnitude of UK government purchasing cock-ups it is too lengthy to catalogue. One government purchasing department is that of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). If the MOD’s purchasing gaffes were applied to any ordinary company, hell would let loose. The police, fraud squad, tax inspectors, anti-corruption squad, receivers and others charged with rooting out financial malpractice would be all over the bought ledger books like a rash.
The ironic weakness in politics is there being no system of purchasing accountability; it’s only the taxpayer’s money. There are so-called watchdogs. The National Audit Office (NAO) comes to mind. Sadly, mediators tend to be by appointment and are drawn from the ranks they are tasked with investigating. The answerability is left to the obedient and self-delusional electorate who troop to the ballot box cubicle every five years and elect the next dictatorship. Don’t forget to bring your wallets and purses, sheeple.
The MOD spent £1.7 million of British taxpayer’s hard earned money on an out of court settlement to a furniture company. This was compensation for a cancelled order. Who cancelled it and why; and was there any vested interest in the richly awarded furniture company?
The same Ministry of Defence spent a similar amount on helmets and body armour for Ugandan soldiers. Who might hold shares in the supplying companies? At this stage I would have sent in that section of New Scotland Yard whose task it is to investigate fiscal misconduct.
A Royal Navy skipper beached his £1 billion nuclear submarine. For recovery and repair the unfortunate British taxpayer coughed up £2.4 million. Nearly £2 million was shelled out when a warhead hit the wrong target; it struck someone else’s building. Clearly it isn’t only the Indian subcontinent that has its Untouchables.
An unnamed MOD spokesman said:
As we acknowledged to the National Audit Office, the Ministry of Defence has not managed its resources well for many years.
More than £400 million was the total cost of blunders from scrapping aeroplane contracts, accidents, and judicial disputes if the previous year’s ‘misjudgements’ are taken into an account. I can almost hear you sigh with relief; ‘is that it?’
Not quite. The early withdrawal of Harrier fighter jets and the cancellation of a fleet of Nimrod planes dug a trench in the taxpayer’s coffers deep enough to sink a submarine in. If you really want to know, the cost was £54 billion. I advise against working out the cost to each of Britain’s taxpayers.
There was a bill for £256,000 after a vehicle was destroyed in a fire; obviously it was not a family saloon. Three cancelled building contracts cost £564,000. In total more than £6.5 billion has been written off for military equipment the MOD no longer needs.
If I were a policeman I think I might be minded to enquire into the bank accounts and lifestyles of those responsible for placing many such orders. But that is just a hunch mind you. The projected losses for errors of judgment over the coming year are estimated at £12 billion. Yes, son, go into politics. It is the same thing, but you don’t go to gaol for it.
Source Article from http://renegadetribune.com/organised-crime-politics/
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