The Real Enemies Of The people. (571)

To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 571.

571) The Real Enemies Of The People.

Dear Mr Clark,

Wouldn't you agree that once again, Mr Harmsworth's Daily Mail has got it wrong and the enemies of the people weren't those three judges after all. They were just doing a good job at being impartial with their judgements. A concept alien to Daily Mail comment writers.

The real enemies of the people are all around us. Apart from the Daily Mail comment writers they are;
1) Anonymous NHS Desk Top Reviewers who hand their patients - to whom they supposed owe a duty of care - a one line unsubstantiated sentence and massive bill for the cost of their nursing care.
2) Property Ombudsman who hand complainants decisions that are not arrived at in a logical manner.
3) NHS executives who keep the public waiting for months -often years - for responses to their complaints.
4) Ombudsman Services Chief Executives who maladminister consumers' complaints.
5) Ombudsman Services Chief Executives who keep members of the public waiting months - sometimes years - for responses to their complaints.
6) Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) that do not collate and publish data on how many members of the public are refused NHS funded nursing care.
7) CCGs that do not collate and publish data on members of the public who appeal NHS decisions on NHS funded nursing care and who then lose those appeals.
8) Ombudsman Services' senior executives who eviscerate data on their performance in handling consumers' complaints so as to comply with the RICS Memorandum of Understanding on resolving disputes effectively.
9) Civil servants who claim to be monitoring redress schemes they approved on behalf of the British people, but who don't.
10) Press and politicians who know that these scandals are a daily occurrence yet choose to do nothing about it.

And this is just for starters.

The real enemies of the people are very well organised. They own the level playing field or are in the process of privatising it, have removed one set of goalposts - their own - and bribed the referee. It will make the people's victory all the more sweeter when it eventually comes.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert.