George Osborne's, "Major Success." (437)

To the Business Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 437.

437) George Osborne's "Major Success."

Success - the achieving of the results wanted or hoped for.
               - something that achieves positive results.
Antonyms: failure, poverty.

Dear Mr Javid,
Clearly, this was the result Google had hoped for and proved to be a very positive result for them. Having a tax bill backdated to 2005 by HMRC which resulted in the company coughing up £130 million was indeed a major success - for them.

But a disastrous failure for the UK taxpayer - a poverty of political policy.

The press, for once, seemed to be in complete disagreement with Geowge:
"David Cameron distances himself from George Osborne's claim of major success over tax back payments." (Telegraph, 2 days ago)

"Google tax avoidance and George Osborne's Soviet-style 'victory.'" (International Business Times, 12 hours ago)

"Google tax deal - George Osborne fails to attend Commons...'Disrespectful' George Osborne blasted after failing to defend 'paltry' Google tax...George Osborne hailed the Google deal as a 'major success' but.." (www.express.co.uk 2 days ago)

"George Osborne faces Google tax quiz as furious MPs...George Osborne faces tax quiz as furious MPs demand answers." (www.mirror.co.uk)

It seems that one rich man's "major success" is countless millions' poverty.

When Google say, "Don't Be Evil," they appear to be talking the same language as the chancellor - nonsense. One article suggests that last year alone, Google should have paid £1 billion in tax and had they played fair it would have gone a long way in helping to pay for a 24hr 7 day a week NHS.

There would have been no need for the bedroom tax.

Q. Mr Javid, how many properties in London did Google executives purchase thanks to the chancellor's largesse and just where do all those unpaid taxes find a home?

Stefan Stern's article for IB Times seemed to sum up this "major success" succinctly when he wrote;
"This was a victory for the government, the chancellor declared. I hope we never get to see what a defeat looks like."
There was also an accompanying picture of the chancellor in his next job - feeding pizzas into a giant oven with Stefan Stern asking - did he help cook the Google tax receipts?

We won't know the answer to that one because the HMRC details remain "confidential" but it now seems that the loony left have officially been well and truly replaced by the rabid right.

Which in turn brings us full circle and back to the maladministrators at Ombudsman Services and their, "close and continuing relationship" with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The executives of this private redress scheme are able to maladminister so-called, "civil justice" safe in the knowledge that their governmental partners will refuse all Freedom of Information Act requests also on the grounds of "confidentiality." Those seeking the truth as to what really is happening to British "justice" face an uphill struggle.

Like those unable to afford the bedroom tax.

Property portfolios for the rich poverty for the poor.

Q. Mr Javid, do you not agree that instead of democracy we now have a gang of criminals conspiring to defraud the people of billions of pounds of unpaid taxes, laundering that money through the unregulated London property market and off-shore tax havens whilst fobbing the rest of us off with privatised, non-transparent or accountable, "civil justice" - in short: government has created a shady place for shady people?

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.