It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)
It seems that taxpayers are ‘customers’ of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Newspeak has pervaded all executive arms of government, non more so than HMRC. In the HMRC publication “Delivering our Vision Business Plan 2009-10″ the declared purpose of HMRC is to: -
1. Make sure that money is available to fund the UK’s public services.
2. Help families and individuals with targeted financial support.
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Never has HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) favourite phrase, “all claims must be supported by invoices”, been turned on its progenitors to such devastating effect. So says Simon Jenkins in the The Guardian article, This mother of all expenses cock-ups is the stuff of banana republics. He reminds us that there is a substantial bureaucracy devoted to political ethics, with MPs now pleading for it to show vigour in their defence – forgetting that a previous commissioner, Elizabeth Filkin, left in disgust. These bodies are armed with peashooters and are anyway subject t o the “will of parliament”, which regards itself as free to reject all advice.
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