611) From, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to "The Sound Of Silence."

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To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary

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To the Chair, Ombudsman Services,

For Clarity - Attempt 611.

611) From, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to "The Sound Of Silence." 

(How The Establishment uses time and a refusal to answer questions to such devastating effect.)

Dear Mr Clark and Lord Tim Clement Jones.

"Fools said I, you do not know

Silence like a cancer grows."

Nicholas Paget-Brown, so-called leader of Kensington and Chelsea council, had clearly consulted The Manual On How To Duck And Dive, before reading his short statement and then leading his cabinet members in hasty retreat as they collectively ducked and dived for cover leaving everyone else but them to shoulder responsibility and take the blame.

It how things are done in today's Conservative Party. It's how things were done in yesterday's Conservative Party too. It's one thing guaranteed not to change - the cover-up.

There was to be no fight on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields and in the streets or in the hills even - they simply scarpered.

Why should anyone be surprised? 

It's what the Establishment does when it cocks-up. It makes a short statement which merely adds insult to injury and then clams up and waits for time and a painfully slow justice system to slowly grind into action - or not as is the case with the Orgreave miners.There, time and silence and Amber Rudd, are still keeping the truth well and truly hidden down some deep, dark pit.

As for the victims of Ombudsman Services:Property's illogical Final Decisions, imposed Mutually Acceptable Settlements and occasional 50 quid hand out - who, apart from us, is speaking up for them? They have been consumed by the silence.

Gillian Fleming, the then Ombudsman Services:Property Ombudsman stated,

"We will always need to ensure the resolution we offer is the right one but during a strained economic climate our outcomes are looked at more closely. The stakes are not only high for the consumer - because their home is important to them - but our decisions have important ramifications for property professionals. It can be of great consequence for them to pay out to a complainant, especially as the maximum award is £25.000."

This is an extraordinary statement by a supposedly "independent" ombudsman.

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, why the,"but" which implies that the ombudsman, truth be known, won't always ensure the resolution she offers is right because of the strained economic climate?

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, it seems that although the "stakes are high" for the consumer - they're even higher for your members. Is this why your company reduced average so-called "financial awards" from £1.511.76p in 2009 to just 50 quid in 2016?

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, we're told by the ombudsman that, "it can be of great consequence for them to pay out to a complainant" is this why so very few complainants actually get the 50 quid?

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, who is looking at your outcomes "more closely?"

    Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, whoever it was who was looking at your outcomes more closely certainly        got the, "financial awards" spectacularly reduced. Let's face it, is it not true that your ombudsman              simply does the bidding of those looking at her outcomes more closely?

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, do you still assure the complainant that your ombudsman is, "entirely independent?"

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, we're being told by this Tory government that the British economy has never been stronger. It that is indeed the case, and the economic climate is no longer strained, why are some property complainants still only getting 50 quid?

"And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subways

And the tenement halls,

And whispered the sound of silence."

Q. Mr Clark, are you able to assure property complainants who use this private redress scheme to find private redress and civil justice, that their complaints will be forensically examined by an ombudsman who is both, "fair" and, "independent?"

Jeremy Corbyn For Prime Minister.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Gilbert - Workstock number - 510458.

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