The Fraud Act 2006 contains a number of excellent provisions which help us in the current case:

(a) section 2 (fraud by false representation)

(b) section 3 (fraud by failing to disclose information), and

(c) section 4 (fraud by abuse of position)

The abuse of expenses by sundry Cabinet Ministers looks to be covered under one or more of these headings as defined in the Act. Whatever the ‘rules’ might say, the way they have been interpreted in practice with a view to making private gain looks to go well beyond injudicious into shamelessly greedy/corrupt and into case-to-answer criminal law territory.

I spent nearly thirty years in public service, filling in all kinds of different entertainment and travel and other claims during that period. The expectation was(rightly) that I adhere to the highest standards of integrity and accuracy, operating not only within the narow interpretation of the rules but also their spirit. Which I did.

Had I been accused of falling below those standards, I would have been subject to possible disciplinary action, latterly with New Labour Ministers using my case publicly to boast to the taxpayer that public money was being spent scrupulously well.

Things have now gone Too Far.

Using all the mighty authority of his blog and as a free citizen in a free country, I hereby call upon the honest members of the Civil Service to say that It’s Over.

They should down their biros and call open meetings in Ministries across the land early next week, pass votes of No Confidence in the existing bunch of Ministers and then briskly bundle said Ministers from their offices out on to the street.

In each Ministry no more than about thirty people should be needed to do this, but if hundreds join in and post the videos of the carnage on YouTube to set an awesome example for the next Parliament and for many Parliaments to come thereafter, so much the better.

This abrupt collapse of the official personal authority of the top members of the government would compel an early general election, when we all would have the chance to vote on the moral credibility of candidates from every party. By the middle of next week – some 100 hours – the worst of whole current calamitous governance scandal could be behind us.

The only alternative to this purposeful bureaucratic pillage is that the Cabinet immediately resign and agree to go quietly, in return for which most of them will not be harassed for the rest of their lives by private prosecution bids.

Todd Beamer on doomed Flight 93 led the way to a hero’s death by saying "Let’s roll" and leading other passengers against their killers.

Civil Servants!

You owe it to a broken nation to assume full responsibility now. Parliament is broken. No-one other than you can end the agony swiftly and cleanly.

Take matters into your own hands.

Roll away! And roll quickly and firmly.