Fraudster ATOS fined for supplying fake crip detectors for use in fitness for work tests
If only!
(satire)
French company, ATOS – which was found guilty yesterday of deploying useless crip detectors on behalf of the British government – had been using the fake gadgets in work capability tests with the full knowledge of British government officials, it has emerged.
ATOS – which was convicted at the Old Bailey on Tuesday of three counts of fraud – faces up to 10 years in jail after using the gadgets which they claimed could detect disability and sickness at long range, deep underground and through lead-lined rooms.
Detectives working on the case however, said the devices – which the company had been using to supposedly detect genuine disability on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions – were in fact re-badged golf ball finders that were no more than car radio antennas attached to an empty box, had no power source and were not connected to any electronics.
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kickingthecat 
As you called yourself the editor when you left comment on johnnie void site I wondered if you have ever read a book called “the editor”, by Max Hastings. It’s hilarious it tells how john major was going to Hastings who was the telegraph editor at the time and asking him how to run a country.
“Editor” is a legacy of wordpress not letting me have two separate accounts for two virtually unrelated sites. :-(. So I went with neutral if a little pretentious login name.
I’ll look into the Hastings book.