• TPO ~ Destroying the Mythology ~ Bullet by Bullet;

• Prelude to Phase III of  disabled FSV~FG Pension Complaint;

• Phase III ~ Disabled FSV~FG Pension Complaint ~ Time Line;

• Phase IV ~ Studied Calumny ~ Entrapment ~ Malicious Ambiguity;

• The TPO preliminary ‘opinion’;

• Phase V ~ Slaying The Dragon:

♦ Merlin Speaks…;

♦ Disabled FSV~FG responds to TPO ‘opinion’;

♦ Indictment and Retribution;

♦ Political Deniability;

♦ The Pursuit of Evidence ~ Henry V;

♦ J’Accuse !

• The Final Verdict on TPO and its Government.

♦ DPA ‘Data Subject’ Request received at TPO 06:40hrs 15th August 2019 ~ No Reply.

Updated August 2022. Should you be minded to follow disabled FSV~FG Pension Complaint guideline through the labyrinth of mythology, smoke, mirrors, and the deceitful abuse of manipulated bureaucracy to deny due ‘judicial’ process to any TPO Applicant who present a potential ‘bill’ to the government.

The Mythology of the TPO is:…

• “Independent” ~ No, they are not, far from it;
It is a sub-department of the DWP;
The DWP is its, and TPR’s ‘Parent’ government department.

• “Sponsored”. TPO often misleadingly describes itself as being ‘sponsored’ which means it receives an annual levy from the pension industry, in addition to the DWP providing part of it and providing TPR’s annual budget also. Both TPO and TPR therefore serve the current government as its ‘Master’ ; all of which is underwritten by the Taxpayer;
The DWP also provides services to both TPO and TPR which includes access to the DWP’s static IP Server address and databases for digital services throughout the UK though based in London.

• “Levy” In early 2020 TPO/TPR asked Government for an increase in the pension industry annual levy ~ denied ~ since 2020 the government is has been re-thinking this request.

• “Unaccountable” ~ No, they are not;
TPO are required to produce an annual statement of fiction/accounts and its operations for the scrutiny of Parliament; in particular for the Parliamentary Select Committee for Work and Pensions (Chair ~ Currently Sir Stephen Timms PC MP)  who can demand via the Sergeant of Arms the attendance of any Citizen, or government employee, to give a personal accounting.

• “Transparent” ~ No, it is not;
TPO investigates itself when Complaints are raised against it or its Civil Servants who hope by claiming “independence” that the Civil Service Code of Conduct does not apply to them personally; of course it does because they are Taxpayer paid Salary and Grade listed Civil Servants.

• “Impartial” ~ No, it is not;
How can it be? TPO receives an annual levy from the pension industry and the DWP both of which are accountable to the  government and finally if it suits the Taxpayer;

How can the TPO claim “impartiality” in the conduct of its affairs when the Civil Service Head of TPO Mr.Anthony Arter(departing in July 2022 if he is lucky). This Ombudsman in his Register of Interests holds extensive and publicly declared shares in 28 Pension Schemes (at the last count in 2020. Since edited and removed from his ‘Declaration of Interests’ and hidden deeper in the TPO website;

• “On your side” ~ A complete falsehood, they are not;
This is both a false statement and a polar opposite oxymoron when TPO claim “impartiality”. They are a government department “sponsored” in part by the pension industry with the Taxpayer picking up the ever growing bill but for which they receive no honest, fair, or impartial ‘service’.

• “Not Civil Servants” ~ Yes, they all are.
In the government organogram of all its departments including TPO all Appointments, Grades, Salaries and functions are listed and described; The Grade of the Civil Service post holder; its associated Civil Service Salary Scale; a published and public  document.

• “Legally Qualified” ~  No, they are not;
In 2020, 4 out of 55 civil servants were; this is further reduced by the removal/disestablished of the post of Deputy Ombudsman(barrister) integrated into the Head of Legal Services(solicitor); but unless the Pension Ombudsman Regulations are amended the HoLS[Head of legal Service] cannot make lawful ‘Determinations’ which can only remain with and be lawfully made by the sole remaining Ombudsman. In 2022 we will return to this fascinating topic later.

With a few exceptions, including the Ombudsman(Solicitor), his Deputy(Barrister~removed), and the Head of Legal Services Ms.C.Ryan(Solicitor) all the remaining civil servants are unqualified in law but annually a contracted external law company provides limited ‘training’ to ensure that they can read, understand, and follow the law and the lawful policies of TPO, which usually they are incapable of.

• “Delegated to make legal decisions”  ~ This is another patent falsehood. These non legally qualified Civil Servants are not empowered by the Pension Ombudsman Regulations Act which governs their activities to make a single legal decision; but they are ‘delegated’ to make non-legal clerical administrative decisions which are not legally binding.

• Senior Adjudicators ‘opinions’ ~ No, they are not. These deliberately misleading Civil Servant clerical titles and their expressed ‘opinions’ are just a layman’s opinion which is quite worthless in law.
Given the above clarity of the actual legal position until challenged by the Bugler ‘Senior Adjudicators’ had been expressing ‘Determinations’(now changed to ‘Opinions’) in writing; they can express an unqualified layman’s ‘opinion'(just like the Bugler) which is valueless in law; only the Ombudsman or his Deputy can make a lawful ‘Determination’ (Post removed and now downgraded to TPO solicitor HoLS but has the Pension Ombudsman Regulations actually been amended? ); a ‘Determination’  which can be Appealed to the High Court of Appeal on a point of law.

• “All Decisions are ‘Final’ “. ~ No, they are not.
It is implied, or stated, that this or that decision is ‘Final’ and cannot be reviewed or re-visited which is de facto a basic denial of ‘due process’. All decisions including Ombudsmen ‘Determinations’ can be appealed and/or re-visited; nothing is ‘Final’ right up to and including the Supreme Court.

• “Efficient” ~ No, it is not.
How was it that the simple Pension Complaint case file of disabled FSV~RRB could lie on the Casework Director Ms. Shona Fiona Nicol’s desk for 5 years or more without a resolution and/or it being placed before an Ombudsman for a judicial Determination?

Here lies the answer…

Ms. Shona F. Nicol started working life as a clerk in the insurance industry possibly in Scotland.

She subsequently joined one of the TPO clerical ‘teams’ as a clerk in 2004.

She became the Casework Director appointed in 2016 which is in effect (sans fancy title) a simple clerical task which entails processing and allocating incoming Pension Complaints to the various teams she is now in charge of.

She is a second tier manager which she shares with two others but is not designated as Deputy to, either of the Ombudsmen not that that would in anyway make any decisions she might take to be lawfully binding.

Ms.Nicol is variously described as, or describes herself as, ‘taking the lead’ on the “implementation of operational strategy”; but where are her declared nationally recognised qualifications which she holds for making such a statement?

In addition to this role Ms.Nicol is also the complaints handler for Service Delivery failures at TPO at which she is especially accomplished.

So accomplished in fact is she that in November 2018  at an ABI(Association of British Insurers) Seminar under the banner headline ‘The Changing Landscape of Complaints’ Ms. Nicol was described as a ‘Keynote Speaker’ and the accompanying ‘blurb’  describes the showcasing of innovative approaches taken by firms with the ultimate aim of turning complainants into ‘net  promoters’.

The Bugler is sure that the irony of all this is not lost on his Readership?

As the complainants at the TPO  well know,  Ms.Nicol’s ‘innovative approach’ is simply to investigate her own failures as a Director of Service Delivery and perpetually conclude she has no case to answer and then send out a, by now, standard letter entitled ‘no case to answer’ suitably coated in whitewash.

But as we see now she has a new Deputy a newly entitled Deputy Case Work Director Mr. Burnett, who does all that tiresome Service Delivery failure business for her, but with the same amnesic results, another bucket of whitewash; a Mr. Burnett who has been at TPO for a very long time but seems noteworthy in having achieved absolutely nothing.

Meantime we must return to disabled FSV~RRB as he anticipates the usual TPO obfuscation and obstruction, which he had historically and repeatedly seen applied to many others.

His was a simple Pension Complaint. He was being paid the wrong Retirement Allowance(RA) while thousands of his colleagues were being paid the correct RA. No one at TPO seemed capable of dealing with it so he made a Service Delivery Failure complaint arriving at the door of the charming Ms.Nicol.

What followed was simply malicious malfeasance by Ms. Nicol, coming in the form of thinly disguised dissimulation of TPO’s wrong versions of their ‘laws’ presented by non-lawyer Civil Servants who are led and directed by this self-serving  Casework  Director.

Nicol’s style of management is applied patronage, by which she bribes with promotion her compliant grateful underlings to create an obedient ‘clique’ which she then unashamedly uses to do her dirty work at arm’s length.

Plainly her latest obedient acquisition is Mr. Burnett who fits that description to a ‘T’ , and before that a Mr.Strachan of who much more later.

The Pension Complaint of disabled FSV~RRB was a classic case of Ms. Nicol at work which was quite simply pure applied corruption in public office.

During which Ms.Nicol used every trick in her morally repugnant ‘book’, over a time span of 5 years, to defeat the honest efforts of a disabled Fire Service Veteran to have the simple wrongs of his pension R A payments set right and brought into line with thousands of other FSVs.

But surely this should not have proved difficult with her manipulative skills?

Ms.Nicol exhibited not the slightest forms of the human traits called sensitivity or decency coupled with compassion during all this time of her power crazed and vindictive enjoyment.

Yet even today the Nicols of this world expect the In-Service Firefighters, men and women,  to pay the final price in rescuing her from her palatial new office at the Colonnade and because the Men and Women Firefighters of today have outstandingly better moral values than Ms.Nicol , they will pay that price for the likes of her…

Disabled FSV~RRB’s case remains on her desk to this day unaddressed, after all this time, and her malum in se actions in further delay are simply criminally scandalous but in so doing she commits actus reus which is a wrongful act, or acts, which are the necessary physical components required to confirm her crimes of Corruption in Public Office; Contempts of Court; Perverting the course of Justice; Conspiracy to pervert the due process of Justice; Bribery, etc.

Ms.Nicol and her obsequious clique have done more to harm Public confidence in the TPO than any single member of the Public will ever do, and on that she is to be congratulated, managing to turn every user from a ‘net promoter’ into an acerbic and accomplished ‘Complainant’…now that takes some doing.

Shortly, in conjunction with the Information Commissioner Ms.Nicol and her cohorts will be required to release all those disabled FSV’s secret ‘Data subject data’ she has accumulated on the DWP/TPO database, no doubt impugning many disabled FSV’s in internal emails as she went, data during this time which will expose her criminality for what it is, corruption in public office; and for prosecution…for criminality has consequences…

Disabled FSV~FG lodged the first of many DPA ‘Data subject’ Requests – Recorded Delivery @ 06:40hrs on 15th August 2019, to be published shortly …TPO have 40 days more or less to respond. Then when they do not, or it looks like only half the anticipated documentation is sent… then off to the Information Commissioner we will go; we know the road to Wilmslow...

Here is the oldest and the newest two page edition of TPO’s Organogram of the Senior Management. It is worth a read if only to show the Bugler ‘effect’ via Parliament from which some poor pensioner might benefit from in the future, if there is one where TPO are concerned. Go Here.

In 2020 Ms. Nicol and one hopes her ‘patronage’ chum Strachan were redeployed in disgrace by the newly created post of Chief Operation Officer staffed by Mr. Alex Robertson himself redeployed from the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s Office to clean out the midden which Arter continues to leave behind to this day; yet another corrupt Pension Ombudsman, an admirable replacement for King his predecessor, yet another rogue.

Mr. Robertson has the unenviable task of cleaning out this monumental dung heap in an attempt to restore some Public confidence in its operations. It would have been much simpler to close the TPO down and transfer any elements of it which might work under the envelope of TPR(which still needs to be improved itself) thus releasing £5mil to the Treasury for better purposes…

It is to be noted that Ms. Claire Ryan has rightly been retained with an enhanced role, albeit part time, Deputy Ombudsman(but with no legal authority to declare lawful ‘Determinations’) reward for her personal integrity , but Arter leaves behind quite a number of his corrupt acolytes and fellow Freemasons Burnett, Coutts, Strachan and his promotees of patronage like Cohen to name but a few. The kernal of corruption which with time and disinterest will allow them to re exert control of TPO to the detriment of all nationwide pensioners who sadly think they can depend on them when their pension goes awry.

But not forgetting what has to be the greatest horse laugh of all the promotion by Arter to Head of Service ‘Integrity’ one Ian Dartnell, a rogue (or Freemason) in training if ever there was one, who would have difficulty spelling the word ‘integrity’ never mind understanding the moral concept.

Whilst wishing Mr. Robertson well the Bugler retains a ‘yellow eye’ on his pumping out the cesspit activities and in time we will make our judgment on him.

Following the Bugler’s own predictable failure concerning his first ever Complaint from the UK Fire & Rescue Service the following objectives and comments are expressed by the Bugler on behalf of disabled FSV~FG and his Pension Complaint (the second) to The Pension Ombudsman.         

N.B. Please note the change of nomenclature from ‘Stage’, when it ends, to ‘Phase’.       

The Objectives:

1. The First objective of this phase was, without delay, to take this carefully prepared Pension Complaint forward to The Pension Ombudsman; the documentation including all the correspondence at IDRP(Internal Dispute Resolution Procedure) Stages I & II but in addition because this was now entering the pure legal phase of this Complaint it unusually included two Barristers’ Opinions described by one, as the ‘opposing forces’, of legal argument;

2. The Second objective, with these unusual inclusions, was to transparently present to the Ombudsman the high level legal arguments advanced for and against the Complaint; in effect foreshortening his/her legal work to arrive reasonably quickly at a ‘Determination’, which is not ‘Final’, as the TPO staff will have it, the majority of whom are not lawyers but Civil Servants,as we know, but is simply another legal step.
The TPO’s ‘Determination’ is always subject to ‘Appeal’ if needs be, on a point of Law.

3. The Third objective, was to have TPO agree to ‘investigate’ this Pension Complaint which would activate in full the Pension Ombudsman Regulations in conjunction with the Pensions Act 1993 (as amended) which would ‘lock’ TPO into the Law, though if this did not succeed, then disabled FSV~FG could always fall back to the position of invoking the Statute law which insists that ultimately Pension Complaint ‘shall’ be placed before one of the two Ombudsmen.

4. The Fourth objective anticipated that the usual obfuscating and delaying tactics regularly used by TPO Civil Servants against all Complainants (just to help their statistics of ‘success’) would be used once more, employing principally, the exhaustion of the IDR Procedure (this is simply another fatuous TPO policy with no legal effect);  the 3 year Statutory legal ‘Time Barring’ Statute; and the more banal ‘pass the parcel game’; all supporting

these pernicious ploys; but which can be overcome by using the law. 

5. The Fifth objective was to anticipate, once more, that cWarren would as usual, for a third time, engage in criminality as he had previously done to mislead TPO, whether or not with Masonic complicity inside the TPO, which was another consideration, but which could also be neutered by the Sixth objective.

6. The Sixth objective was for disabled FSV~FG to enforce his legal right to have his Pension Complaint placed exclusively before the Ombudsman or his Deputy for a ‘Determination’.

Bugler Comments:

7. It will be especially helpful to those following the deep legal detail, the ‘art of the law’ in this Pension Complaint of disabled FSV~FG to read, as primers, the already published ‘Opinions’ on the Bugler. Go Here.

8. Respectfully and repeatedly, the Bugler asked pro bono Barrister JMCB to attempt to write his Opinions in plain English and repeatedly JMCB with great reluctance struggled with this concept.

The point he made repeatedly, and understandably so, was that by doing so he could digress from the actual Law and as a consequence arrive at the exact point where these pension clerks started from which was their ‘notion’ of their ‘law’, as opposed to the actual law.

In analogy,  it is rather like taking a Monet painting and asking its creator to use plain colours, dispensing with ‘shades’,  to convey all the beauty of its nuances so we could all understand what Monet’s glorious creativity was hoping to achieve.

If such a creation could be achieved then in drawing the analogy of  all the legal nuances in this case, the Art of Law, would be entirely lost to the lay person and the resultant whole becomes incomprehensible.

So the Bugler suggests it is best left to those who know, professionally practice, and enjoy the nuances of pure law by ending with a quote from Monet…

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”.

On the 26^th September 2017, fortuitously responding to an invitation to supply ‘information’ to the Parliamentary Select Committee for Work and Pensions(SelCom) the Bugler sent the attached folio to reinforce how deliberately difficult it is made for a legally unsupported pensioner with even a simple error, which they have identified, to get a fair hearing with TPO. Go Here.

On the 10^th of October 2017, disabled FSV~FG’s Pension Complaint was placed before TPO and was received by the Casework  Director Ms.Nicol who then passed the case file to Mr. Strachan one of her  promotees with the title of ‘Senior Jurisdictional Adjudicator’; the first recognisable anticipated and deliberate hurdle.

On the 28^th of October 2017, disabled FSV~FG received a phone call, at an inopportune moment  from Mr. Strachan apropos his Pension Complaint . Go Here.

On the 23^rd November 2017, correspondence with SelCom illustrates and confirms the criminality and duplicity of Ms. Nicol Casework Director at TPO and the task which lay ahead for disabled FSV~FG in seeking Justice over his Pension Complaint. Go Here.

On the 14^th December 2017, such was his concern at the delay that pro bono Barrister JMCB sent an unsolicited letter to various responsible persons and authorities; only the Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Work and Pensions Mr Frank Field DL MP acknowledged  lacking either interest or enthusiasm, replied.Go Here.

On the 12^th February 2018, disabled FSV~FG responded to an email from Mr. Strachan on the 24^th January 2018 Go Here. 

On the 9^th March 2018, disabled FSV~FG responded to an email from Mr. Strachan on the 12^th February 2018.

It was on or about this point that Mr. Strachan referred the case back to the Casework Director Nicol without any decision or information being passed to disabled FSV~FG. Go Here.

On the 5^th September 2018, leaving an unaccounted delay from early March to early September, Mr. Strachan then sent an email to disabled FSV~FG in which he made these rather odd statements… “ As I mentioned in my last email, your case was with Fiona Nicol following a receipt of an email from Mr. Burns(?). However, Ms. Nicol’s has asked that I progress the complaint as far as I am able.”.

Mr. Strachan gives no indication of the contents of Mr.Burns’s email nor does Mr. Strachan explain what ‘as far as I am able’ actually means, but clearly he intends that ‘the buck’ stops with Casework Director Nicol for this unexplained delay.

However, hoping that disabled FSV~FG’s memory had failed him in the meantime he returns once more to the expected ‘when did you get to know’ theme of entrapment, probably prompted by Ms. Nicol.

Mr. Strachan alludes to an email it is alleged  was sent to Ms.Nicol from Mr.Burns on or about this time, no such records exist in the Bugler’s Archives. Go Here.

On the 19^th September 2018, being disinclined to play further time wasting ‘games’ disabled FSV~FG ignored the entrapment question until he received yet another email from Mr. Strachan, prompted again by Ms.Nicol no doubt, asking the same entrapment question again, to which he replied on the 21^st September 2018. Go Here.

On the 21^st October 2018, after yet another purposely long time wasting period during which Mr. Strachan pursued the same question once more; but at no point did he send all his correspondence with the LFRS to disabled FSV~FG which he was required to do, at which point  disabled FSV~FG then did a complete round up of his involvement with TPO.

In effect stating…’ if you and TPO wish to ‘hang yourselves’ be my guest because I will continue to pay out the rope for you to do it’. Go Here.

On the 6th June 2019, (D-Day), disabled FSV~FG responded to the TPO ‘opinion’ covering once more those inescapable details Coutts of the TPO had failed or manage to avoid addressing.Self evidently Coutts had been handed the poisoned chalice and he knew it, and in anodyne language which would have befitted a standard letter, he did as little as possible to incriminate himself whilst attempting to please his Master because it can only be his Master Ombudsman Arter who assigned this sensitive this task to him; he made a very poor fist of it as he dallied between a ‘rock and a hard place’…Go Here. 

Meantime on the 14th June 2017, significantly, Mr. Guy Opperman MP was appointed Under Secretary of State to the DWP, colloquially know as the ‘Pension Minister’. So following an induction briefing from the DWP Permanent Secretary at the commencement of his duties and having met TPO Arter Mr. Opperman’s  was lock stepped at an early point to disabled FSV~FMG Pension Complaint and could at no subsequent point deny knowledge of the existence of this Complaint nor its implications for HM Treasury as an example of a ‘Class Action’ which represented the financial aspirations for the repayment of underpaid pension payments since 1992 to 11,000+ disabled FSVs and their Beneficiaries which amounts to £5 Billion in arrears in August 2022…

Nor could Opperman deny the existence of the call for information from the then Chair of the Pensions Select Committee Mr. Frank Field MP and the Bugler’s fulsome response.

When disabled FSV~FG responded to the TPO the Bugler thought it might help with the continuity of readability  to remove his Appendix ‘A’, and combine this with the relevant part of the letter entitled ‘ Fire Service Pension Schemes-Scrutiny dated 26^th September 2017 in which the Bugler responded to the Parliamentary Select Committee for Work & Pensions invitation to provide ‘information’.

Naturally there will be from time to time some overlapping of thoughts and more importantly evidence. The Bugler will be grateful for your forbearance.  

When read together they provide a detailed resume of the misconduct of individuals and mostly government and local authority departments which you and the Bugler pay for in our Taxes.

There are in the region of 120+/- indictments contained in these collated documents; the numbers of those persons involved and accountable in law, both civil and criminal, continue to grow by the day.

Now whether this Indictment should form the basis for a governmental, and/or, a Serious Fraud Office, and/or, a Metropolitan Police inquiry, all instituted by you the Reader through many of the polling media available today, is a matter you may wish to consider in the light of the fact that they all exist to serve us, rather than we, existing to serve them.

The long overdue time to indict has arrived and with it the need to for retribution, ‘pour les encourager les autres’, to encourage the others, has also arrived . Go Here.

When disabled FSV~FG’s rebuttal was sent to TPO it was also in some cases, with the addition of the two sections of evidence/complaints amounting to over 120+/ indictments,  targeted on and circulated to those in political office including the ultimate Minister responsible the Pensions Minister Mr. Guy Opperman M.P.

To ensure that the documentation was passed directly to the Minister a sympathetic 3^rd party, Member of Parliament was used Dame Louise Ellman CBE.

This also ensured that the Minister, under ‘House Protocol Rules’ was required to respond to this M.P. thus avoiding  in the future any denial of knowledge, which also supported all the previous documents sent to the Minister, none of which drew either an acknowledgement or response, but this did.
For some lecturing pompous nonsense. Go Here.

Firefighters, it is commonly assumed, are mindless heroes but we are also quick to learn, or die.

As a consequence of this inquiry from the Ministerial office Mr. Arter, in buying more time, for which we have an inordinate supply of ‘self hanging’ rope, decided that he would send a boy to do a mans’s job, Mr.Burnett his newly promoted deputy to Ms.Shona F. Nicol, but this promotion holds a curious tale.

In a single step Mr. Arter confirmed Ms.Shona F. Nicol has a complete lack of management nous in evaluating the person she picked, or was encouraged to pick, to be her deputy.

Because as Minister Opperman will agree, as a jockey

himself, Mr.Burnett simply fell at the first fence whilst clutching his overfull bucket of whitewash. 

He really must do better than this epistle which was a particularly vacuous piece of scribing simply not worthy of comment.

But then, in returning to this curious tale of promotion, what can you expect from an old man, a part time clerk, coming near his time, ironically with his pension topped up by his grateful chums Arter and Nicol for ‘services’ rendered.

Nevertheless we kicked over a few wasps nests and you can bet your bottom $dollar we will be kicking over quite a few more before we quit.

It is useful that these innately arrogant civil servants underestimate our capacity to overwhelm and win.

That is what the Fire & Rescue Service regularly do for a living in good causes.
For more asinine TPO twaddle. Go Here.

In the meantime, as ever a busy little beaver, Mr. Coutt’s informed his chum clerk Warren of disabled FSV~FG rebuttal, who then engages his new ‘boy wonder’ solicitor to reply on his behalf.

A yet another ‘boy wonder’ who has yet to respond to the 10 Questions that the Bugler publicly posed to him asking how it was he acquired his new post without engaging in any of the tiresome principles of Equal Opportunity law which no doubt in his, as yet unpublished CV, he will claim to be an employment law specialist? Go Here.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers will march forward to the continue the search for deep hidden evidence of criminality held on the data servers at Lancashire County Hall and on the DWP data servers at Poplar London; aided as necessary by the resolute Dame Elizabeth Denham CBE,  the Information Commissioner; an iron-clad  Canadian  from the Province of British Columbia.

And now the call to arms, to all English Patriotic Firefighters of a new generation from your English Brothers and Sisters of a bygone day who need your help…from an Irishman, who one day long ago, admired England.

KING HENRY V:
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

But, as is the human condition, when the finger of accusation is pointed, the little cosy coteries of superficial ‘loyalty’ within these organisations, departments, and offices rapidly start to creak, groan, and fracture under load.

It is no longer a sly amusement; a snigger at the desk; an office horse laugh; a smirk; it becomes a deadly serious ‘game’ of consequences because the realisation sinks in that there will be a price to be paid for all this ‘enjoyment’.

Gradually the individuals involved begin to realise that this ‘team loyalty’ is not even skin deep; it is a false description for a bog of corruption in which they are because they realise that this is ‘every man for himself’ on a sinking ship; the suspicious glances grow; the muted and whispered conversations in corridors die out; the distrust grows by the minute, about who is about to sell out, or indeed who has already sold out?

Where, and who, does the Bugler get all this inside information from?

Underlying all this grows the instinct for the self-survival of their employment. Who is to keep up the payments on the new car, pay the mortgage or rent, or for the next ‘foreign’ holiday, if I am found guilty of ‘Misconduct in Public Office’ and I am sacked as a consequence of all these unholy ‘games’?

Will the department stand by me and defend my actions? Can their loyalty to me be trusted and counted upon?

After all I was only doing my duty, or as they told me to…

Now where did we all hear this before?

From Auschwitz-Birkenau, to Buchenwald, to Sobibor, because the human condition is still the same freed from existence of an official moral compass; the enjoyable abuse of power over the weak; the vicious jackboot on the neck; the sadistic smirk as money was spitefully stolen without compunction or compassion; from honourable hard pressed and terminally ill Fire Service Veterans; by cruel and venomous deeds from their needy Widows and Beneficiaries, as they were inhumanly driven down the LFRS ‘Hardship Road’; as fat, lazy, complacent, and corrupt  politicians like Driver, O’Toole, DeMolfetta with their all party political counterparts stood idly by, knowingly giving winks and nods to corrupt sociopaths like Winterbottom, Judge ‘Nelson’ Butler, Holland, Kenny, Warren, Mattinson, Hamilton, Harold, Gardiner, Hutchinson, Lister, and Wisdom with their willing and promotionally bought lickspittles…all beneath contempt.

Corrupt Nazis to a man and woman…the very obscenity of evil which good women and men fought and died to overcome…

All of this is the measure of today’s British Establishment by an Irishman who ironically has fought for 15 years to bring Justice to his English comrades and their families; and how will it respond to these abhorrent injustices perpetrated on the innocent ; and how, and to what measure, will it punish those responsible when held guilty; because it is upon the International stage of opinion that this Nation will ultimately find itself judged…

♦ DPA ‘Data Subject’ Request received at TPO 06:40hrs 15th August 2019 ~ never replied to;

 A sordid corrupt organisation which uses studied calumny on behalf of a sordid corrupt British Government Minister for Pensions, Mr. Guy Opperman M.P.

To prove the point here is a fascinating footnote about the provenance of a key document.

The then Deputy Ombudsman Ms.Karin Johnston delivered her ‘Determination’ to disabled FSV~FMG on the 10th September 2020. As a legal document bound for the Court of Appeal is there proof that it was properly signed off by her directly?

Ms.Johnston’s employment contract ran out at the end of June 2020 and was not renewed. One is bound to ask did the ‘Determination’ actually come from Ms. Johnston’s hand, or did it come from the hand of one David Craddock another eager beaver who describes himself as a ‘senior counsel’ but is in fact a low time served solicitor, with a penchant for writing unsolicited letters to the Court of Appeal.

Fraud it seems continues to be endemic at the TPO…