I must have looked dismayed when the building inspector asked for a geo-tech report. "Don't worry." he hastened to reassure me. "My brother and I run a little geo-tech business and we will be able to provide exactly what you will need over the coming week-end."

I was not too taken aback at his own corruption. What staggered me was his presumption that the whole of the council was corrupt and that he was doing no more than getting his share.

Perhaps I should not have been so innocent.

Wherever there are concentrations of power there is corruption