Absence.

I apologize for the seven month delay in getting back to you. I’ve been waiting for the Civil Service Commission to pick up the phone. 

INDEPENDENT - HONEST!!

“The Commission is ‘INDEPENDENT’ of the Civil Service and government.” that is what it claims on its rather grand looking website. See here:

       http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/

              This is despite the fact:

 1) It is set up by the Cabinet Office (the Civil Service department charged with monitoring all other civil service departments.

2) It is funded  by the Cabinet Office, (at tax payers expense of course)

3) It is accountable to the Cabinet Office.

4) It is run by Civil Servants

       In the Civil Service this is what is classed as "INDEPENDENT."

 

Chapter Eight - Civil Service Code. Tony Smith and the British National Party.

What has my academic research on the British National Party (BNP) got to do with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs?

   That’s a question which should have been asked when Tony Smith, (a Manager at the Tax Credit Office in Preston) decided to use internal HMRC grievance procedures to complain about it to Senior Management. See here:

  http://studyingthebnp.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/here-is-internal-complaint-by-tony.html

  Thing is, it’s also a question the Civil Service Commission should be asking - particularly as Chapter 8 of the Civil Service Code it states:

“You must use resources only for the authorized public purposes for which they are provided”

   The Civil Service Commission have said they will look into it.


                 Sometime this century would be nice.

In the News

     Just been watching the news were a whistle blower claimed the Quality Care Commission (The health watchdog tasked with regulating all health and adult social services in England) is not fit for purpose and spends most of its time producing annual reports saying what a fantastic job it does. It’s not on it’s own:

                And here’s the latest  report from the Civil Service Commission just to prove it.

 http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/news/civil-service-commission-annual-report-2011-12-published-12-july-2012/

Team building event.

The Commission is still to busy to discuss my case. I’m told it is because they have gone to some hotel on a team building event. What that means I have no idea. I suspect it just an excuse for a booze up, lots of free food and a massive amount of self pampering.

                                         All at tax payers expense of course.

Birthday Surprise.

Rang the Commission today to see how my case was progressing. Apparently they won’t be able to discuss it with me as it is the Chief Executive birthday today and they are all busy celebrating.

        Nice to see they've got their priorities right.

        And yes I am being sarcastic.

Diane McFarlane to Andi Ali. False sexual allegations - Not a breach of the Civil Service Code. Honest!!!

The lengths the Civil Service Commission will go not to investigate breaches of the Civil Service Code (despite receiving over a MILLION POUNDS of tax payers money to do precisely that) has to be seen to be believed. (Seriously, this is the conversation I had with one of their Case Managers, Diane McFarlane recently.

   “Mr Ali, Richard Summersgill, the Director of the Tax Credit Office has confirmed his staff made false sexual allegations against you but has begged us not to treat it as a breach of the Code. We have looked into this and we tend to agree with him it is not a breach of the Code. What on earth made you think it was?”

Well eh! I spluttered after I picked myself up from the floor:

  “Under section three of the Civil Service Code its states that all Civil Servants are expected to uphold the key  Civil Service values of vales of honesty, integrity, objectivity and impartially.  So it must be a breach of the Code because it is very dishonest to make false sexual allegations against somebody isn’t it?”

You would have thought that such a statement would have been blazingly obvious but not to the Civil Service Commission apparently, who told me they would look into it and slammed the phone down.

(Oh, and Richard Summersgill is still begging them not to take action -although why, nobody in the Commission will say).