Europeans Stand Up To Powerful, Vested Interests - Brits Just Talk About It (609)

To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary,
and
To the Chair, Ombudsman Services,

609) Europeans Stand Up to Powerful, Vested Interests - Brits Just Talk About It.

In, Margrethe Vestager, has an European commissions competition commissioner with teeth.
Someone prepared to take tough decisions. To stand up, challenge vested interests and right wrongs.

Unlike here.

Here politicians like Vince Cable get to told by the regulator RICS to "fix"
the lettings market and do as they're told. Here politicians don't tell RICS to "fix" its dysfunctional market in surveying.

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, the OFT has said that the surveying market is dysfunctional, why as the Chair of a private redress scheme, aren't you marshalling your best efforts to challenge this blatant injustice?

In Europe the commissioner alleged that Google systematically favoured its own comparison shopping product. Here, RICS favours letting its surveyors send their dissatisfied clients to their appointed ombudsman.

In Europe a billion Euro fine was handed out.

Here, the surveyors' ombudsman reduced awards from £1.51.76p in 2009 to 50 quid in 2016.

Here, Ombudsman Services are - through the agencies of RICS and their behind the scenes engagement and political influencing work - looking to create a monopoly in private redress and so-called "civil justice."

Q. Mr Clark, were Ombudsman Services to monoplise the private market in redress would that be in the consumer's interests?

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert

The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.