610) From "RICS" to "RIGS,"

To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary

and

To the Chair of Ombudsman Services.

For Clarity - Attempt 610.

Jeremy Corbyn For Prime Minister:

610) From "RICS" to "RIGS."

Dear Mr Clark and Lord Tim Clement Jones,

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors - RICS - would have us believe that they,

"regulate and promote the profession, maintain the highest educational and

professional standards, protect clients and consumers via a strict code of ethics and promote impartial advice and guidance."

The then Head of Regulation at the RICS, Eve Salomon, when asked to present to the Leveson Inquiry about self-regulation said,

"So, the first message this regulating anorak has to the inquiry is that self regulation, when it works, is far preferable to statutory regulation. Why? Because by its nature it suggests a willingness to comply rather than the begrudging obligation that so often comes with statutory obligation."

When it works? Eve Salomon when would that be? Not when our surveyor packed us off to his ombudsman and not when Lloyds packed their clients off to Alder King.

Q. Mr Clark, Lord Tim Clement Jones, is there not a conflict of interest when RICS "regulated" surveyors send their dissatisfied clients to their ombudsman scheme which is funded by their fees and their ombudsman, in strict adherence to RICS' Memorandum of Understanding on the effective resolution of disputes, hands those clients an illogical Final Decision and sometimes, though not very often, 50 quid?

Chillingly, Eve Salomon went on to warn the Leveson Inquiry that if the billionaire owners of the free press weren't left to do as they please when they please,

"We would end up watching a battle between the armies of the press and the unarmed regulator, the regulator will be slaughtered."

So much for living in a modern civilised western democracy.

She went on,

"...don't impose a new regulatory arrangement...If you do, I for one will be standing well back when the onslaught hits. I don't like the sight of blood."

Hence, the self regulating Daily Mail's depiction of the three judges as being, "Enemies of the People." They of course meant, "Enemies of the Billionaires."

Hence, the triumph of self - regulating private civil justice as it colonises all before it.

According to Jo Stevens, Labour MP Cardiff Central,

"No self-regulator will ever say otherwise, but the question is whether RICS is delivering on that commitment in practice. Unfortunately, in the experience

of my constituent, Mr Shabir. and many others, the answer is emphatically no."

(Hansard; Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors - Property Act Receiverships)

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, RICS are emphatically not acting to protect consumers' interests and is this not reflected in their micro management of disputes at their appointed company - Ombudsman Services:Property - where they monitor your performance regarding the effective resolution of disputes?

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, why do you no longer ask consumers whether they consider a 50 quid financial award, an effective resolution of their dispute?

Q. Lord Tim Clement Jones, how can the RICS be fulfilling its duty to act in the public interest when it doesn't bother to consult the public on whether it has acted in their interest or not?

The regulators at RICS/RIGS - a byzantine, empire building juggernaut of an organisation - have long since forgotten that it's function is to serve the public interest not that of those who like to act behind the scenes.

Adrian Bailey, West Bromwich Labour, speaking on the same subject stated,

"The wide consensus of opinion about the awfulness of the actions and the terribleness of the experience that the individuals have gone through - let us be clear, it is reflected by many other small businessmen and women up and down the country - raises matters of huge concern."

Q. Mr Clark, is it part of the Tory Party Industrial Strategy to allow RICS to fleece small business men and women and consumer property complainants on an industrial scale and how is that benefitting the public?

Yours sincerely,

Steve Gilbert - Workstock number 510458.

The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign is at www.blogspot.com and Facebook - Stephen Gilbert, Plymouth - the ombudsmans61percent campaign