From incompetence to cruelty

So with Nickla welcoming John Paul Marks to the role of Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government we have went from incompetence to abject cruelty in one fair swoop with this appointment. While the First Minister gets provided with a list where she gets to agree to this appointment she can also refuse or make different choices, as we know her choices in her time as First Minister have been poor to what might turn out to be criminal if Alex Salmond wins his Court case against Leslie Evans whenever that actually takes place.

John Paul Marks is allegedly one of the Civil Servants behind the cruel and horrific Universal Credit system of punishment in Scotland (def fits with the New SNP and Sturgeon) and Marks as director general, work and health services, who is in charge of the day-to-day running of Universal Credit and disability benefits was dammed in a report by the Byeline Times in 2019 Byeline Times found that Benefit error and fraud has reached record levels at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and it is going to get worse, according to its own figures released in its annual report for the last financial year. Have a read of the full article, it is a depressing read indeed but perfectly sums up the attitude behind most things in this country now when it comes to the poorest and most vulnerable of our citizens, but hey ho Sturgeon is looking forward to working with one of it’s architects, there is a surprise.  The most damning section of the report is on the Universal Credit benefit – the current and previous directors of which have just received bonus payments of up to £15,000 each for their work.

For his role in one of the cruelest and most expensive social security flops in a long history of them Paul Marks received a bonus of £15,000 on top of his salary of £130,000 with £83,000 into his pension, you can’t make this crap up can you anymore. The corruption of the UK, which Sturgeon now embraces with open arms, rubs our noses in shit every single day and especially those of us within the independence community. Some £1.4 billion of the errors are caused by civil servants making mistakes with claims. Marks should fit in well with the current Scottish Government who have shown a particular talent at wasting our money, the Salmond Enquiry costing millions, the shocking malicious persecution of the Glasgow Rangers Directors costing hundreds of millions, the Island Ferries debacle which has so far cost around 500 million. You know the unionists are correct, Scotland can’t afford to be independent, Sturgeon has made sure of that.

Some of the yes community have very quickly made their feelings known and it is not hard to not understand the anger at this kind of appointment. In his blog to his staff Marks wrote ” it’s ok to be proud of our vocation, I love being a Civil Servant , and I am proud of our Civil Service” . Lets not forget the words of Sir Jeremy Heywood when the Civil Service won awards for their part in lying to the Scottish people during the referendum when he said “This award is not just for the Treasury, it’s for all the hard work that was done by all government departments on the Scotland agenda. So as the English Government reinforce our colonial status with this appointment don’t forget Sturgeon agrees with them, and is in fact looking forward to it.

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