OS:Property/The Labour Party: Logic? Where's Spock When You Need Him? (500)

To the Business Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 500.

500) OS:Property/The Labour Party: Logic? Where's Spock When You Need Him?

Dear Mr Javid,

The Labour Party has just tied itself in knots over just what exactly its own Rules actually mean. It took 6 hours, lots of people, two m'learned friends but no sandwiches to arrive at a decision: 18-14. So much for the "Rules."

Why didn't the genius writing them simply add: and the incumbent leader automatically goes on the ballot? That would have been sensible. Would have saved a lot of time and heartache.

The Rule said;
"Where there is no vacancy nominations may be sought by potential challengers each year prior to the annual session of Party Conference. In this case any nomination must be supported by 20% of the combined Commons members of the PLP and members of the EPLP. Nominations not attaining this threshold shall be null and void."

As Mr Corbyn isn't challenging himself he doesn't need the support of 20% of PLP and EPLP members. Logical and straightforward. Or so you'd think.

Not so logical or straightforward was what Gillian Fleming, the Ombudsman Services:Property ombudsman wrote in response to our complaint that she avoided answering our questions;
"For clarity, I do not agree that any failure (by me or any colleagues for that matter) to give an answer to a question means we have refused to answer that question."

That's clarity?

We tried asking the Chair of Ombudsman Services, Prof Dame Janet Finch, if she could shed some light on the logic behind this statement. She couldn't. A sad case of one expert apparently not being able to interpret what another expert says.

You could fill a room with lots of people, two m'learned friends, hand them sandwiches and 6 hours and they'd probably arrive at a majority decision that whatever way you looked at it - the ombudsman still hadn't answered the question or given a satisfactory reason for not doing so.

We live in a world where those in positions of power - whether it be Prime Ministers at Prime Minister Question Time, OS:Property with its executives and ombudsmen, local government or Livewell Southwest Ltd simply believe themselves to be above answering questions. It's beneath their dignity.

If that's democracy I'm Captain Kirk.

Spock, would probably said of all this that;
"Evil does seek to maintain power by suppressing the truth." (And The Children Shall Lead 1968) 

Q. Mr Javid, how can the Ombudsman Services:Property ombudsman investigate complaints, "fairly" and "independently" when she avoids answering a complainant's questions?

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.