Failing upwards.........

It’s been a funny old week!

Unable to stand the pain of England’s wretched performance against the Jaapies on ‘Today at the Test’,  I went straight to Randall. And I was flabbergasted. Why?

Step forward Lin Homer.

‘Who she?’, you might ask. She is the newish boss of HM Revenue & Customs. But she is famous for her time as CEO of Birmingham City Council.

In 2005, there was an election petition alleging widespread malpractice and fraud in the council elections. The first Election Commission since Victorian times investigated.

The Commissioner found that fraud had been committed on an industrial scale, with Pakistani Labour supporters going so far as to threaten postmen with having their throats cut if they refused to hand over the postal votes. More than that, the conduct of the count was a complete shambles. The count was begun before all the ballot boxes were in. Ballot boxes turned up too late to be counted or were simply lost. Two Tesco carrier bags full of votes were discovered in a senior official’s office.

The Election Commissioner said that it was worse than a banana republic. He reserved a special comment for  the Chief Returning Officer responsible for all this outrage. She had ‘thrown the rulebook out of the window’.

And who was this unfortunate person? Why, none other than our Lin.

She quickly resigned. Did she return to well-deserved obscurity? Nope.

She was appointed head of the Borders Agency, I kid you not!

There she presided over the well-known opening of the flood gates of mass immigration. She threw the rulebook away there, too.

Did this lead to her departure? Yes: to become Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Transport.

One would have thought that with a Tory PM she would have been due for an early bath. However, we don’t have one such; only Dave. So now this serial failure is at the top of one of the most crucial Departments in these troubled times.

You couldn’t make it up!

Then we have a moronic Junior Minister (no, not Jeremy Hunt; another moron) telling us that it is ‘immoral’ to pay the plumber in cash! Eh?

Listen, matey. VAT is the responsibility of the tradesman, not the customer. How we choose to pay is naff-all to do with you.

And another thing. We have no intention of being lectured on morals from any one of the expenses-cheating rabble that are today’s denizens at in House of Commons.

OK?