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.