Carry On Fiddling!

THE professional bodies that police themselves have over time committed some of the worst excesses of fraud are all joined together at the hip by one thing, tax payer’s money.

The list includes some of our so called respected institutions. Accountants, councillors, civil servants, bankers, doctors, dentists, estate agents, financial (investors), judges, police, politicians, (MPs, MEPs, Lords) solicitors; to put them all in you would get writer’s cramp. I have left the media out until they find the Leveson inquiry as it must have been lost?

When one of the right honourables gets caught making music by fiddling public money they are tried by their friends who give them a gentle tap on the hand they had in the till. The latest music maker is the one and only Maria Miller, cabinet member in the present parliament. £90,000 she claimed and was at first asked to pay back £45,800, which was reduced to £5,800 plus an apology that lasted a blink on an eye.

This spineless article we call a prime minister backs her to the hilt and can’t see for the life of him what she has done wrong. If you made it into a Carry On film you would laugh till you cried. Then when you realise it’s your money they are fiddling you would want to hang them up with violin wire till their thieving fingers fell off.

Richard Billups, East Avenue, Rawmarsh