Barbara Ellen - The Amazing Journalist... (474)

To the Business Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 474.

474) Barbara Ellen - The Amazing Journalist.

Dear Mr Javid,

Barbara Ellen, single parent, fellow squatter - different place different time - and campaigner wrote a devastatingly penetrating and courageous piece in last Sunday's Observer stating that the housing market was rigged.

Since 2010 we've been trying to tell Oliver Colvile our MP, the Coalition Government and now this, "anti-corruption" administration that the housing market is rigged from its RICS sandy foundations to its RICS leaking roof. From its RICS (un)regulated surveyors with their cowboy practices via the London Property Market swamped as it is with rivers of immigrant money to its RICS, "approved" and regulated redress scheme - Ombudsman Services:Property - with its illogical Final Decisions, non-existent Customer Satisfaction Reports and executives who with, "unimpeachable integrity" corruptly oversee the maladministration of consumers' complaints.

But without success.

At a time when journalists like Barbara Ellen are taking a stand against the inequities of rigged markets the Prime Minister has yet again shown no courage, no leadership and yet again ducked an opportunity to take part in a live democratic debate.

A modern-day Flashman but without the charm of his fictional hero.

Dear Mr Javid,
You would appear to see maladministration as essentially not corrupt just the sharper end of good business practice which merely seeks to steal an inch in a globalised dog-eat-dog rush
to make dirty money and launder it through the RICS regulated London Property Market - "if you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin.'"  The world-wide aspiration to but a property in Belgravia and put in several basements.

To be all in this together in a big basement in Belgravia.

Otherwise, things would have been different and you would have replied to us by now. But you haven't.

Q. Mr Javid, surely it's the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) that is in need of root, branch and stem modernisation and reform and not the BBC. Why, "fix" something that is working unless it is this, "anti-corruption" administration's unstated intention to rig it, make money out of it, pay no tax on it  and then launder those ill-gotten gains through the rigged London Property Market via unregulated British off-shore tax havens?

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.