To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 553.
553) "Why you won't get your day in court" Jed S Rakoff.
(www.nybooks.com/articles/2016)
Dear Mr Clark,
This timely article about the ballooning role of private arbitrators in the USA mirrors what we've ben saying about The Golden Age of The Ombudsman here in the UK.
Jed S Rakoff, writing for the New York Review of Books, concludes, "Why you won't get your day in court" by stating,
"Arguably even worse, the situation I've described reinforces the belief of citizens that the courts are not an institution to which they can turn for justice, but are simply a remote and expensive luxury reserved for the rich and powerful."
How true. Just try asking Rebekah Brooks.
The advice our solicitor gave us was not to take legal action against our RICS poorly regulated surveyor as, "it could be financially ruinous." Heeding his advice we turned to the RICS appointed ombudsman. This turned out to be financially damaging but not ruinous.
The Ombudsman Services:Property sales pitch to the unwary consumer is that it is both, "fair" and "independent." We believe it is neither. When an expensive purchasing decision goes badly wrong, surveyors have devised a scheme that ensures they don't pick up the tab, they've rigged it so that their client does.
The proliferation of ombudsman schemes here apes the growing trend for arbitrators in the USA.
Jed S Rakoff tells us,
"A seventh factor is the increasing diversion of legal disputes to regulatory agencies."
That,
"A further result is that most legal disputes are rarely decided by judges and almost never by juries."
And still another result is,
"that the function of the judiciary as a check on the power of the executive and legislative branches and as an independent forum for the resolution of legal disputes has substantially diminished - with the all too willing acquiescence of the judiciary itself."
Here, politicians, civil servants and Privy Councillors have acquiesced in the mushrooming of such schemes and then shuffled their papers and looked the other way when the schemes they so readily approved failed to deliver on their extravagant and wildly exaggerated promises.
Money seems to be the determining factor here.
We're further told that,
"The arbitrator is limited, however, in the relief she can afford employees or consumers even if she should find in their favour - the company imposed agreements that mandate arbitration typically also prohibit an award of punitive damages or the convening of a class action that would include others who have the same or similar complaints."
Ombudsman Services:Property do not define what they mean by a proportionate financial award even if they should find in favour of the complainant and hand one out.
The Concepcion Case and the late Justice Antonin Scalia also has a resonance with what is happening here. That case,
"Has attracted much criticism because of what some legal commentators view as its strained reasoning, which they typically ascribe to the pro-business stance of the court's majority when Scalia was part of it."
We've always said that strange reasoning abounds at OS:Property and one only has to read its Minutes and Annual Reviews to see its rampant pro-business bias.
Just as Congress delegated judicial powers and responsibilities to administrative agencies, so Parliament handed them to private ombudsman schemes.
"These agencies, which are branches of the executive, then create their own internal courts, with procedures that bear little resemblance to those found in the judiciary. Furthermore, these administrative courts are run by judges who are selected by, paid by and subject to review by the administrative agencies themselves. Yet Congress, often at the behest of the President, has given increasing powers to these courts, whose independent status is often doubtful."
Here in the UK we have maladministrating ombudsmen, some of whom arrive at decisions in an illogical manner, who tell us what civil justice is.
We believe it's rigged.
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up, challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its appointed company, Ombudsman Services:Property and right the wrongs of its ombudsman's illogical Final Decisions and its executives' maladministration?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
Sunday, 27 November 2016
Friday, 25 November 2016
From Rigged Rdress To Rigged Elections - Executives Subvert Democracy. (552)
To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 552.
552) From Rigged Redress To Rigged Elections - How Executives Subvert Democracy.
Dear Mr Clark,
Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill go on to say,
"In addition to the perception that there was a tendency for ombudsman schemes to be both procedurally and substantively biased in favour of the body being investigated, some participants felt that ombudsman schemes were under pressure to 'gate keep' their resources."
For example, in the Ombudsman Services Annual Report - Statutory Report and Accounts 2010, we read,
"We ensure that the Members know we are spending their money wisely and they have a well run, efficient scheme which adds real quality to their own business practices."
So, what "redress" is really all about comes down to mangers showing just how eager they are to spend their Members' money wisely.
And we thought this was supposed to be a redress scheme where complainants had their grievances thoroughly and independently investigated. How wrong we were. Why isn't the complainant having real quality added to their processes?
In effect, complainants are being robbed of their money and of justice. No level playing field here.
Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill continue,
"This gives rise to the perception that staff were continually looking for ways to close cases down and that the process ended up being a series of hurdles for complainants to fight their way through."
In short, ombudsman schemes such as OS:Property are obstacle courses where there's only one winner - The Member.
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up, challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its appointed company, Ombudsman Services:Property, and right the wrong of its ombudsman's illogical Final Decisions and its executives' maladministration?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
For Clarity - Attempt 552.
552) From Rigged Redress To Rigged Elections - How Executives Subvert Democracy.
Dear Mr Clark,
Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill go on to say,
"In addition to the perception that there was a tendency for ombudsman schemes to be both procedurally and substantively biased in favour of the body being investigated, some participants felt that ombudsman schemes were under pressure to 'gate keep' their resources."
For example, in the Ombudsman Services Annual Report - Statutory Report and Accounts 2010, we read,
"We ensure that the Members know we are spending their money wisely and they have a well run, efficient scheme which adds real quality to their own business practices."
So, what "redress" is really all about comes down to mangers showing just how eager they are to spend their Members' money wisely.
And we thought this was supposed to be a redress scheme where complainants had their grievances thoroughly and independently investigated. How wrong we were. Why isn't the complainant having real quality added to their processes?
In effect, complainants are being robbed of their money and of justice. No level playing field here.
Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill continue,
"This gives rise to the perception that staff were continually looking for ways to close cases down and that the process ended up being a series of hurdles for complainants to fight their way through."
In short, ombudsman schemes such as OS:Property are obstacle courses where there's only one winner - The Member.
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up, challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its appointed company, Ombudsman Services:Property, and right the wrong of its ombudsman's illogical Final Decisions and its executives' maladministration?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
Sunday, 20 November 2016
Democratic Window Dressing by Conmen and Phonies (551)
To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 551.
551) Democratic Window Dressing By Conmen And Phonies.
(with special thanks to Mitt Romney for the conmen and phonies descriptor)
Dear Mr Clark,
The Plan - the one that really gets the job done - is to lie early and to lie often, to lie and lie again.
Mr Farage, Mr Trump and ombudsmen all have one thing in common - a contemptuous disregard for the facts. Modern day snake oil salesmen.
In, "Procedural and practice issues" Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill tell us;
"The process was seen as one sided, with complainants not being made privy to discussions between ombudsman schemes and the bodies investigated. Some participants claimed that one ombudsman scheme shared reports with the body investigated prior to it being shared with the complainant Overall, one participant felt it was, 'democratic window dressing' rather than a serious attempt to investigate issues."
(Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill: Understanding and engaging online citizen activists)
That, in a nutshell, is what happened between the our RICS surveyor and his ombudsman. He exchanged memos and gentle reminders with what was, to all intents and purposes, his secretary. He wound her up pointed her in the right direction and off she dutifully marched. Job done.
We've said many times before that there is a logic behind the OS:Property ombudsman arriving at decisions in an illogical manner. The ombudsman is there to do the RICS' bidding - to deliver what they (the RICS) consider to be effective resolution of disputes.
Finding in favour of complainants is not seen as being, "effective." So it doesn't happen.
The so-called, "investigation" of disputes by the RICS, "appointed" ombudsman is simply, "democratic window dressing." We call it rigging the market in private redress in what is now the rigged market phase of capitalism.
A capitalism that rigs referendums and elections, so it would seem.
As for the lie? Its done its job. Time to move on to the next one.
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step by, challenge the vested interests of the RICS and right the wrong of their ombudsman's illogical Final Decisions and their executives' maladministration?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
For Clarity - Attempt 551.
551) Democratic Window Dressing By Conmen And Phonies.
(with special thanks to Mitt Romney for the conmen and phonies descriptor)
Dear Mr Clark,
The Plan - the one that really gets the job done - is to lie early and to lie often, to lie and lie again.
Mr Farage, Mr Trump and ombudsmen all have one thing in common - a contemptuous disregard for the facts. Modern day snake oil salesmen.
In, "Procedural and practice issues" Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill tell us;
"The process was seen as one sided, with complainants not being made privy to discussions between ombudsman schemes and the bodies investigated. Some participants claimed that one ombudsman scheme shared reports with the body investigated prior to it being shared with the complainant Overall, one participant felt it was, 'democratic window dressing' rather than a serious attempt to investigate issues."
(Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill: Understanding and engaging online citizen activists)
That, in a nutshell, is what happened between the our RICS surveyor and his ombudsman. He exchanged memos and gentle reminders with what was, to all intents and purposes, his secretary. He wound her up pointed her in the right direction and off she dutifully marched. Job done.
We've said many times before that there is a logic behind the OS:Property ombudsman arriving at decisions in an illogical manner. The ombudsman is there to do the RICS' bidding - to deliver what they (the RICS) consider to be effective resolution of disputes.
Finding in favour of complainants is not seen as being, "effective." So it doesn't happen.
The so-called, "investigation" of disputes by the RICS, "appointed" ombudsman is simply, "democratic window dressing." We call it rigging the market in private redress in what is now the rigged market phase of capitalism.
A capitalism that rigs referendums and elections, so it would seem.
As for the lie? Its done its job. Time to move on to the next one.
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step by, challenge the vested interests of the RICS and right the wrong of their ombudsman's illogical Final Decisions and their executives' maladministration?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
Sunday, 13 November 2016
So Long Leonard Cohen And The Democracy We Thought We Once Knew. (550)
To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 550.
550) So Long Leonard Cohen And So Long To The Democracy We Thought We Once Knew.
Dear Mr Clark,
If you can't trust Mark Zuckerberg's trending Facebook, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, Fox News, The Brexit Campaign Bus or Nigel Farage's Campaign poster who can you trust if your an undecided voter trying to make their mind up?
Where is the truth hiding today? And why is it so hard to find?
In the past Donald Trump's scapegoats would have been the Jews and communists.
Today, The Big Lie was the one where voters were suckered into believing that by putting their trust in a billionaire property developer who believes it's smart and patriotic not to pay his taxes, smart and patriotic to denigrate Hispanic people and Muslims and smart and patriotic to vilify female television presenters (who are smarter and probably far more patriotic than he is in reality) - would somehow make America great again.
Ably aided and abetted by his ex-stockbroker, be-suited pillar of the English Establishment, Mr Farage, the lie took hold and completed its inevitable journey - enough voters were conned into believing the lie: that one part of The Establishment would take on and magically transform another part of The Establishment to the benefit of ordinary men, women and children.
A modern day fairy tale for grown-ups.
A bit like drug barons taking over and running pharmaceutical companies, criminals taking over and running the justice system or unelected and unaccountable ombudsmen being left free to tell us what civil justice is.
Donald and Vladimir do have one thing in common - apart from gazing lovingly at themselves in the mirror - no one seems to have a clue as to how much money they have or where they've stashed it. The FBI, FSB and CIA have all been caught napping apparently. There's a thing.
And neither Donald nor Vladimir seem overly keen to put their ill-gotten gains to the service of those struggling to make ends meet in their respective countries. No, "from each according to his abilities to each according to their needs," from these beneficiaries of their respective rigged systems.
No nobility, no generosity, no decency and no compassion there.
In, "Panama, the Hidden Trillions" Guardian reporter, Luke Harding, writes,
"The Economic system is, basically, that the rich and powerful exited long ago from the messy business of paying tax.... we see that the burden of paying tax has moved inexorably away from multinational companies and rich people to ordinary people....this began a race to the deregulatory bottom which was explained in Ronen Palan - 'The offshore World, Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places and Nomad Millionaires 2003'
A race to the deregulatory bottom.
A shadowy place where those who captured/rigged the system; lie, cheat and steal as never before and with, it would seem, complete impunity. The rest of us are told that do so is simply being, "smart" or "aspirational."
It took John Doe and not the CIA, FBI FSB, Mossad, MI5/5 etc. to expose this massive and seemingly unstoppable racket. In his, "Manifesto" John Doe writes,
"I have watched as one after another, whistleblowers and activists, in the USA and Europe have had their lives destroyed by the circumstances they find themselves in after shining a light on an obvious wrongdoing
... legitimate whistleblowers who expose unquestionable wrongdoing, whether insiders or outsiders deserve immunity from government retribution, full stop....
... Many news networks are cartoonish parodies of their former selves. Individual billionaires appear to have taken up newspaper ownership as a hobby, limiting the coverage of serious matters concerning the wealthy and serious investigative journalists lack funding...
.... the collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately leading to a novel system we still call capitalism, but which is tantamount to economic slavery."
Rigging systems and then simply not answering the peoples' questions is what lies at heart of what we call rigged market capitalism. Thomas Piketty calls it "captured" capitalism. Yet for some inexplicable reason this is still called democracy.
We leave the last words to Leonard Cohen, "I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you."
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
For Clarity - Attempt 550.
550) So Long Leonard Cohen And So Long To The Democracy We Thought We Once Knew.
Dear Mr Clark,
If you can't trust Mark Zuckerberg's trending Facebook, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, Fox News, The Brexit Campaign Bus or Nigel Farage's Campaign poster who can you trust if your an undecided voter trying to make their mind up?
Where is the truth hiding today? And why is it so hard to find?
In the past Donald Trump's scapegoats would have been the Jews and communists.
Today, The Big Lie was the one where voters were suckered into believing that by putting their trust in a billionaire property developer who believes it's smart and patriotic not to pay his taxes, smart and patriotic to denigrate Hispanic people and Muslims and smart and patriotic to vilify female television presenters (who are smarter and probably far more patriotic than he is in reality) - would somehow make America great again.
Ably aided and abetted by his ex-stockbroker, be-suited pillar of the English Establishment, Mr Farage, the lie took hold and completed its inevitable journey - enough voters were conned into believing the lie: that one part of The Establishment would take on and magically transform another part of The Establishment to the benefit of ordinary men, women and children.
A modern day fairy tale for grown-ups.
A bit like drug barons taking over and running pharmaceutical companies, criminals taking over and running the justice system or unelected and unaccountable ombudsmen being left free to tell us what civil justice is.
Donald and Vladimir do have one thing in common - apart from gazing lovingly at themselves in the mirror - no one seems to have a clue as to how much money they have or where they've stashed it. The FBI, FSB and CIA have all been caught napping apparently. There's a thing.
And neither Donald nor Vladimir seem overly keen to put their ill-gotten gains to the service of those struggling to make ends meet in their respective countries. No, "from each according to his abilities to each according to their needs," from these beneficiaries of their respective rigged systems.
No nobility, no generosity, no decency and no compassion there.
In, "Panama, the Hidden Trillions" Guardian reporter, Luke Harding, writes,
"The Economic system is, basically, that the rich and powerful exited long ago from the messy business of paying tax.... we see that the burden of paying tax has moved inexorably away from multinational companies and rich people to ordinary people....this began a race to the deregulatory bottom which was explained in Ronen Palan - 'The offshore World, Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places and Nomad Millionaires 2003'
A race to the deregulatory bottom.
A shadowy place where those who captured/rigged the system; lie, cheat and steal as never before and with, it would seem, complete impunity. The rest of us are told that do so is simply being, "smart" or "aspirational."
It took John Doe and not the CIA, FBI FSB, Mossad, MI5/5 etc. to expose this massive and seemingly unstoppable racket. In his, "Manifesto" John Doe writes,
"I have watched as one after another, whistleblowers and activists, in the USA and Europe have had their lives destroyed by the circumstances they find themselves in after shining a light on an obvious wrongdoing
... legitimate whistleblowers who expose unquestionable wrongdoing, whether insiders or outsiders deserve immunity from government retribution, full stop....
... Many news networks are cartoonish parodies of their former selves. Individual billionaires appear to have taken up newspaper ownership as a hobby, limiting the coverage of serious matters concerning the wealthy and serious investigative journalists lack funding...
.... the collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately leading to a novel system we still call capitalism, but which is tantamount to economic slavery."
Rigging systems and then simply not answering the peoples' questions is what lies at heart of what we call rigged market capitalism. Thomas Piketty calls it "captured" capitalism. Yet for some inexplicable reason this is still called democracy.
We leave the last words to Leonard Cohen, "I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you."
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Now Every Day Is Thanksgiving Day For American Turkeys. (549)
To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 549.
549) Now Every Day Is Thanksgiving Day For American Turkeys.
So, the American Electoral System isn't rigged after all.
Turkeys have just elected Mr Trump as their president - a man who benefits enormously from its rigged tax system. We wonder how many ordinary folk, both here and in the USA, will also benefit from rigged markets, rigged tax schemes and rigged private redress schemes?
For someone who takes such pride in the USA why is Mr Trump - and so many corporations - so unpatriotic when it comes to paying his way in the world?
How many nurses, doctors, teachers and care workers could those unpaid taxes have funded?
Dear Mr Clark,
Those executives who according to Thomas Piketty, so profitably captured/rigged capitalism have, we believe, also rigged its private redress schemes. They now seek to capture democracy and the judiciary - just look at what the unelected Mr Desmond, the unelected Mr Murdoch, the unelected Barclay brothers and the unelected Lord Rothermere have been up to recently.
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up, challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its creature, Ombudsman Services:Property and right the wrongs of its ombudsman's illogical Final Decisions and its executives' maladministration?
For Clarity - Attempt 549.
549) Now Every Day Is Thanksgiving Day For American Turkeys.
So, the American Electoral System isn't rigged after all.
Turkeys have just elected Mr Trump as their president - a man who benefits enormously from its rigged tax system. We wonder how many ordinary folk, both here and in the USA, will also benefit from rigged markets, rigged tax schemes and rigged private redress schemes?
For someone who takes such pride in the USA why is Mr Trump - and so many corporations - so unpatriotic when it comes to paying his way in the world?
How many nurses, doctors, teachers and care workers could those unpaid taxes have funded?
Dear Mr Clark,
Those executives who according to Thomas Piketty, so profitably captured/rigged capitalism have, we believe, also rigged its private redress schemes. They now seek to capture democracy and the judiciary - just look at what the unelected Mr Desmond, the unelected Mr Murdoch, the unelected Barclay brothers and the unelected Lord Rothermere have been up to recently.
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up, challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its creature, Ombudsman Services:Property and right the wrongs of its ombudsman's illogical Final Decisions and its executives' maladministration?
Saturday, 5 November 2016
Liz Truss and the Sn, The Daily Mail and the Telegraph - Enemies of Democracy. (547)
To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 547.
547) Liz Truss and The Sun, The Express, The Daily Mail and The Telegraph - Enemies of Democracy.
Dear Mr Clark,
The unelected Prime Minister, Mrs May, and her cabinet, have now been put on notice by unelected tax-avoiding press barons.:Do not step out of line.
As the rightwing press take a giant goosestep towards fascism it would appear that the Justice Minister has deserted her post and gone AWOL.
Some have suggested that she's hiding in Rupert Murdoch's pocket whilst others believe that she's waiting for further instructions from Lord Rothermere as to what to think and do next. Either way her vanishing act isn't good for our fragile democracy or for people seeking justice. They're going to have to work an awful lot harder to find it now that politically motivated press barons are accusing judges of being politically motivated.
Clearly, the press now need to be regulated as self-regulation has proven once again, to be a total disaster (very much like the RICS and its creature Ombudsman Services:Property) Certain editors are now obviously totally out of control and running amok.
They have nothing but contempt for our democracy.
Rigged/captured market capitalism, corporatism, less and less transparency and accountability, more an more rightwing demagogues has pushed the centre ground even further to the right and is undermining democracy and justice.
It's become; government of the rigged market capitalists, by the rigged market capitalists and for the rigged market capitalists. .
What could be more rigged than a press that insists upon regulating itself, whose owners avoid paying taxes and yet who can't prevent themselves from telling many of those unaccustomed to thinking for themselves, just what to think?
Q. Mr Clark, when is the Justice Minister going to step up and challenge the vested interests of tax avoiding press barons and right the wrong of those powerful and largely unaccountable individuals who threaten the judiciary and our democracy?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
For Clarity - Attempt 547.
547) Liz Truss and The Sun, The Express, The Daily Mail and The Telegraph - Enemies of Democracy.
Dear Mr Clark,
The unelected Prime Minister, Mrs May, and her cabinet, have now been put on notice by unelected tax-avoiding press barons.:Do not step out of line.
As the rightwing press take a giant goosestep towards fascism it would appear that the Justice Minister has deserted her post and gone AWOL.
Some have suggested that she's hiding in Rupert Murdoch's pocket whilst others believe that she's waiting for further instructions from Lord Rothermere as to what to think and do next. Either way her vanishing act isn't good for our fragile democracy or for people seeking justice. They're going to have to work an awful lot harder to find it now that politically motivated press barons are accusing judges of being politically motivated.
Clearly, the press now need to be regulated as self-regulation has proven once again, to be a total disaster (very much like the RICS and its creature Ombudsman Services:Property) Certain editors are now obviously totally out of control and running amok.
They have nothing but contempt for our democracy.
Rigged/captured market capitalism, corporatism, less and less transparency and accountability, more an more rightwing demagogues has pushed the centre ground even further to the right and is undermining democracy and justice.
It's become; government of the rigged market capitalists, by the rigged market capitalists and for the rigged market capitalists. .
What could be more rigged than a press that insists upon regulating itself, whose owners avoid paying taxes and yet who can't prevent themselves from telling many of those unaccustomed to thinking for themselves, just what to think?
Q. Mr Clark, when is the Justice Minister going to step up and challenge the vested interests of tax avoiding press barons and right the wrong of those powerful and largely unaccountable individuals who threaten the judiciary and our democracy?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
Friday, 4 November 2016
"Amber Rudd was right to leave Orgreve in the past." Simon Jenkins. (546)
To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 546.
546) "Amber Rudd was right to leave Orgreave in the past." Simon Jenkins.
(Guardian 02/11/2016)
Dear Mr Clark,
Amber Rudd was wrong to leave Orgreave in the past but from his unpleasant little article we now know that Simon Jenkins is an Orgreave Denier and now takes his place alongside the likes of Mrs Rudd, the Chingford Skinhead and Lord Tarzan which is exalted company indeed.
Wielding his history airbrush like a South Yorkshire copper's truncheon, he set about Mr Burnham for having the courage and temerity to seek to take on The Establishment in what is now post-Brexit Britain. Isn't this what 17 million voted for? To take back control and show their growing anger and dissatisfaction with a remote, indifferent and self-serving Establishment? An Establishment that works assiduously to cover-up its crimes and misdemeanours?
Simon Jenkins' assault on Mr Burnham began with a snide put-down that;
"Those who can't rule today try to rule yesterday."
Calling for a public inquiry into the events surrounding the Battle of Orgreave is not trying to rule yesterday. It's simply calling for a light to be shone on not just the South Yorkshire police but also on the politicians at Westminster who were orchestrating those appalling events.
An ombudsman handing a complainant an illogical final decision is an appalling event.
A healthcare worker handing a patient an unexplained decision is also an appalling event.
Who will shine a light on these latest on-going scandals? Not Simon Jenkins that's for sure.
His support for the Home Secretar's cover-up continued with;
"This week's demand by Labour's Andy Burnham for a show trial of police tactics at the battle of Orgreave 32 years ago was a piece of pure politics."
Asking for a public inquiry in Simon Jenkins' less than objective apology for the illegalities of 1984, becomes a demand for a show trial. Wrong again Mr Jenkins. Public inquiries are not show trials. Don't confuse the two. However, by clumsily seeking to establish this fictitious link, he has sought to undermine the key role of public inquiries in attempting to hold the unaccountable to account. A thought that clearly terrifies him.
But if there is any purity in politics, asking for a public inquiry into events surrounding Orgreave 32 years ago, is - we believe - approaching it.
We're asking for a public inquiry into the RICS and its, "appointed" company Ombudsman Services:Property, not demanding it. We suspect that Orgreave Deniers like Simon Jenkins are by some extraordinary coincidence also Illogical Final Decision Deniers too.
His next swipe was to say;
"We know what happened at Orgreave."
Wrong again. We don't know what happened behind the scenes at Orgreave and if Orgreave Deniers like Mr Jenkins continue to have their way, we never will. Which serves to illustrate just how urgent such an inquiry is and how right Andy Burnham was in calling for one.
Thanks to DJS Research we have some knowledge of what happened - and is happening - at Ombudsman Services:Property but (as Simon Jenkins brought the matter up) isn't it strange that no junior minister at the BIS (or senior one for that matter) has sought to speak out about it. It's an Orgreave in the making. There would appear to be an awful lot of Illogical Final Decision Deniers out there busily working to undermine our fragile democracy whilst at the same time further entrenching rigged market capitalism and the interests of those tax avoiders who benefit from it.
Why don't you write about that Simon Jenkins?
Next;
"The police reaction to the miners' union picketing was excessive. But this fact has been examined, fought over and iconised for decades."
Yes, the police reaction was excessive and so were their rigged statements and perjury. Those facts haven't been examined by Orgreave Deniers like Mr Jenkins with his misrepresentations and thinly disguised contempt for the campaigners but they serve to show how concerned the Establishment is to keep it unexamined.
Buried in the lowest level of the deepest closed mine.
In his piece there's no mention of his icon, Mrs Thatcher, or how she brought harmony to the nation at that troubled time.
The bludgeoning continues and Andy Burnham becomes reduced to, "Burnham." It's now time for Mr Jenkins to shoot the messenger;
"Why does Burnham suddenly want an inquiry into Orgreave ...."
Probably, Simon Jenkins, because he, like us, believes that transparency and accountability are an essential part of our democracy. You quite clearly don't.
And so it went on and on in a similar vein.
Perhaps an ex-miner could kindly donate his miner's lamp to Mr Jenkins - it might help bring some light to the pit he inhabits.
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up and challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its creature, Ombudsman Services:Property and shed some light on their illogical Final Decisions and maladministration?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
For Clarity - Attempt 546.
546) "Amber Rudd was right to leave Orgreave in the past." Simon Jenkins.
(Guardian 02/11/2016)
Dear Mr Clark,
Amber Rudd was wrong to leave Orgreave in the past but from his unpleasant little article we now know that Simon Jenkins is an Orgreave Denier and now takes his place alongside the likes of Mrs Rudd, the Chingford Skinhead and Lord Tarzan which is exalted company indeed.
Wielding his history airbrush like a South Yorkshire copper's truncheon, he set about Mr Burnham for having the courage and temerity to seek to take on The Establishment in what is now post-Brexit Britain. Isn't this what 17 million voted for? To take back control and show their growing anger and dissatisfaction with a remote, indifferent and self-serving Establishment? An Establishment that works assiduously to cover-up its crimes and misdemeanours?
Simon Jenkins' assault on Mr Burnham began with a snide put-down that;
"Those who can't rule today try to rule yesterday."
Calling for a public inquiry into the events surrounding the Battle of Orgreave is not trying to rule yesterday. It's simply calling for a light to be shone on not just the South Yorkshire police but also on the politicians at Westminster who were orchestrating those appalling events.
An ombudsman handing a complainant an illogical final decision is an appalling event.
A healthcare worker handing a patient an unexplained decision is also an appalling event.
Who will shine a light on these latest on-going scandals? Not Simon Jenkins that's for sure.
His support for the Home Secretar's cover-up continued with;
"This week's demand by Labour's Andy Burnham for a show trial of police tactics at the battle of Orgreave 32 years ago was a piece of pure politics."
Asking for a public inquiry in Simon Jenkins' less than objective apology for the illegalities of 1984, becomes a demand for a show trial. Wrong again Mr Jenkins. Public inquiries are not show trials. Don't confuse the two. However, by clumsily seeking to establish this fictitious link, he has sought to undermine the key role of public inquiries in attempting to hold the unaccountable to account. A thought that clearly terrifies him.
But if there is any purity in politics, asking for a public inquiry into events surrounding Orgreave 32 years ago, is - we believe - approaching it.
We're asking for a public inquiry into the RICS and its, "appointed" company Ombudsman Services:Property, not demanding it. We suspect that Orgreave Deniers like Simon Jenkins are by some extraordinary coincidence also Illogical Final Decision Deniers too.
His next swipe was to say;
"We know what happened at Orgreave."
Wrong again. We don't know what happened behind the scenes at Orgreave and if Orgreave Deniers like Mr Jenkins continue to have their way, we never will. Which serves to illustrate just how urgent such an inquiry is and how right Andy Burnham was in calling for one.
Thanks to DJS Research we have some knowledge of what happened - and is happening - at Ombudsman Services:Property but (as Simon Jenkins brought the matter up) isn't it strange that no junior minister at the BIS (or senior one for that matter) has sought to speak out about it. It's an Orgreave in the making. There would appear to be an awful lot of Illogical Final Decision Deniers out there busily working to undermine our fragile democracy whilst at the same time further entrenching rigged market capitalism and the interests of those tax avoiders who benefit from it.
Why don't you write about that Simon Jenkins?
Next;
"The police reaction to the miners' union picketing was excessive. But this fact has been examined, fought over and iconised for decades."
Yes, the police reaction was excessive and so were their rigged statements and perjury. Those facts haven't been examined by Orgreave Deniers like Mr Jenkins with his misrepresentations and thinly disguised contempt for the campaigners but they serve to show how concerned the Establishment is to keep it unexamined.
Buried in the lowest level of the deepest closed mine.
In his piece there's no mention of his icon, Mrs Thatcher, or how she brought harmony to the nation at that troubled time.
The bludgeoning continues and Andy Burnham becomes reduced to, "Burnham." It's now time for Mr Jenkins to shoot the messenger;
"Why does Burnham suddenly want an inquiry into Orgreave ...."
Probably, Simon Jenkins, because he, like us, believes that transparency and accountability are an essential part of our democracy. You quite clearly don't.
And so it went on and on in a similar vein.
Perhaps an ex-miner could kindly donate his miner's lamp to Mr Jenkins - it might help bring some light to the pit he inhabits.
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up and challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its creature, Ombudsman Services:Property and shed some light on their illogical Final Decisions and maladministration?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Ombudsman Services:Property - And The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign. (545)
To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 545.
545) "The Tory cover-up of The Battle of Orgreave will last for a thousand years..." Amber "Red Mist" Rudd.
(Statement to the Commons: Halloween 2016)
Dear Mr Clark,
It takes a truly appalling person to make truly appalling decisions and Amber "Red Mist" Rudd is just such a person. That she apparently, loses no sleep over them - or the miners who once struggled to save their jobs and communities - simply adds insult to injury
With unanswered questions hanging over her own past business arrangements, she was still The Unelected Prime Minister's choice as Home Secretary. However, her statement in the Commons yesterday effectively torpedoed The Unelected One's claim to be leading a government that is, "stepping up, righting wrongs and challenging vested interests."
They both fell ignominiously at the first hurdle. But if the truth be known neither should have been entered for the race in the first place. Two police horses masquerading as thoroughbreds.
Each time The Unelected One teeters into number 10 she will be coolly, calmly and clinically stilettoing the backs of those miners so brutally attacked by Margaret Thatcher's Private Army. That the Chingford Skinhead could actually believe that the police, "behaved reasonably well" shows what a morass these appalling people inhabit.
Norman, the evidence strongly suggest that it wasn't the miners who were dressed in full riot gear, wielding batons and on charging horses who were attacking a throng of milling police wearing short sleeved tee-shirts. It was the other way around. But then why let the truth get in the way of a strongly held prejudice?
History has a new category of villain - The Orgreave Denier.
So, no truth, no reconciliation, no transparency, no accountability and no justice there.
It was the hour The Establishment took back control and told the rest of us to get on our bikes or climb into an Uber taxi.
What does The battle of Orgreave and Ombudsman Services:Property both have n common?
Decisions that are made behind the scenes, political influencing and engagement work of an unacceptable nature between politicians, civil servants and senior management - or collusion as it's better known, outcomes that are a disgrace in a country that still calls itself a democracy - or corruption as it's better known and all neatly tied up with a blue bow promising anonymity to the guilty.
To The Orgreave Denier we should now add - The Illogical Final Decision Denier.
Brexit means Brexit? Doesn't it really mean The Establishment is back firmly in control and once again it's open for cash, collusion, corruption and cover-ups - that it's dirty business as usual?
Capitalism and its so-called justice system have just been rigged a little more tightly by The Unchosen One and her Home secretary..
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up, challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its creature - Ombudsman Services:Property and right the wrongs of the company's illogical Final Decisions and maladministration?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
For Clarity - Attempt 545.
545) "The Tory cover-up of The Battle of Orgreave will last for a thousand years..." Amber "Red Mist" Rudd.
(Statement to the Commons: Halloween 2016)
Dear Mr Clark,
It takes a truly appalling person to make truly appalling decisions and Amber "Red Mist" Rudd is just such a person. That she apparently, loses no sleep over them - or the miners who once struggled to save their jobs and communities - simply adds insult to injury
With unanswered questions hanging over her own past business arrangements, she was still The Unelected Prime Minister's choice as Home Secretary. However, her statement in the Commons yesterday effectively torpedoed The Unelected One's claim to be leading a government that is, "stepping up, righting wrongs and challenging vested interests."
They both fell ignominiously at the first hurdle. But if the truth be known neither should have been entered for the race in the first place. Two police horses masquerading as thoroughbreds.
Each time The Unelected One teeters into number 10 she will be coolly, calmly and clinically stilettoing the backs of those miners so brutally attacked by Margaret Thatcher's Private Army. That the Chingford Skinhead could actually believe that the police, "behaved reasonably well" shows what a morass these appalling people inhabit.
Norman, the evidence strongly suggest that it wasn't the miners who were dressed in full riot gear, wielding batons and on charging horses who were attacking a throng of milling police wearing short sleeved tee-shirts. It was the other way around. But then why let the truth get in the way of a strongly held prejudice?
History has a new category of villain - The Orgreave Denier.
So, no truth, no reconciliation, no transparency, no accountability and no justice there.
It was the hour The Establishment took back control and told the rest of us to get on our bikes or climb into an Uber taxi.
What does The battle of Orgreave and Ombudsman Services:Property both have n common?
Decisions that are made behind the scenes, political influencing and engagement work of an unacceptable nature between politicians, civil servants and senior management - or collusion as it's better known, outcomes that are a disgrace in a country that still calls itself a democracy - or corruption as it's better known and all neatly tied up with a blue bow promising anonymity to the guilty.
To The Orgreave Denier we should now add - The Illogical Final Decision Denier.
Brexit means Brexit? Doesn't it really mean The Establishment is back firmly in control and once again it's open for cash, collusion, corruption and cover-ups - that it's dirty business as usual?
Capitalism and its so-called justice system have just been rigged a little more tightly by The Unchosen One and her Home secretary..
Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up, challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its creature - Ombudsman Services:Property and right the wrongs of the company's illogical Final Decisions and maladministration?
Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.
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