Re: Jared O'Mara: Sheffield MP arrested in fraud probe
From what I have read it is all to do with alleged Expenses Fraud.
But we will know soon enough.
What is it with crooked politicians and public servants? it's as if some cannot resist the "kid in a candy shop" syndrome once they have easy access to taxpayers money in the public sector. It's as though some just cannot resist stepping over the line and defrauding taxpayers. I don't suppose they even bother to think for one moment of the damage they cause to taxpayers services when this happens. The temptation is just too much for them.
It made me think back to before retiring, I worked in the private sector and personally handled thousands of pounds in banknotes every day in a securely locked office by myself with no cameras present. Did I ever think of stealing any? an emphatic NO! I was so immune to those £50, £20, £10 and £5 notes, It didn't even feel like dealing with real money, it was like counting monopoly money.
(I spent more time washing my hands almost every five minutes due to banknotes being disgustingly filthy with bacteria and traces of drugs!!)
lol, some evenings, even though I constantly washed my hands, I still worried whenever the police boarded my commuter train with sniffer dogs. It's a well-known fact that many banknotes contain traces of cocaine and heroin on them!!! Not a nice thought.
However, those same departments of ours were ruled with a rod of steel. Every single penny down to the last one pence piece had to be accounted for. Even the petty cash for teabags.sugar, etc, the occasional taxi fare and office supplies didn't escape scruitiny.
At the end of the week, if the accounting was not spot on, No-one escaped those offices until the incorrect figures were found, a sound explanation received and accepted before being corrected and signed off.
Is it so difficult therefore, for the same not to apply in the public sector? How often do we hear that fraud was only discovered when a too infrequent audit was carried out when the fraudster had either gone on holiday or left the company?
As we learned to our disgust with the expenses scandal, it seems not much has been put in place since then to prevent fraud or misappropriation of taxpayers money. That is scandalous. Other heads should roll as well as the fraudsters whenever they are caught. It might put a stick up their backsides to get things done so it is never allowed to happen.
They are far too lax in the public sector with accountability for taxpayers money.