Ombudsman Services:Property. Regulation - The Three Lions Continue To Snore. (11)

11) Ombudsman Services:Property. Regulation - The Three Lions Continue to Snore.

Dear Mrs Leadsom and Mr Clark,

It has been pointed out to us that the Pensions Regulator has also been asleep on the job and that Alan Duncan's refusal to implement transparency reforms in British tax havens has shown the UK Government to be incapable of bringing leadership to the global stage.

Whilst the Brexit Minister was telling Europe about his robotic lawn mower and the government's leadership role in setting global standards for regulation the Foreign Minister was  saying and doing the opposite. According to the Guardian,

"The foreign minister, Alan Duncan, however said the government would only pressure the territories (tax havens) to adapt new transparency measures when they became a global standard and insisted that an EU commitment to introduce public registers did not meet that threshold."

UK regulators have a very strange notion as to where the threshold is.

Back in April 2016 when speaking on the subject of transparency and regulating  MPs tax returns Alan Duncan had said,

"we risk seeing a House of Commons which is stuffed full of low achievers, who hate enterprise, hate people who look after their own families and who know absolutely nothing about the outside world." 

Accordingly, we now have a House of Commons that is stuffed to the gunnels with high achievers who on the face of it seem to know absolutely nothing about the inside world of regulation - or the criminal lack of it. Or perhaps they do and are only too happy to see it rigged in the way it is - in favour of other high achievers.

To say otherwise is to show the petulant envy of the eternal low achiever. Apparently.

In this Dunconian world of high achievers, arms length and light-touch self-regulation is all that is required. An 80%+ complainant dissatisfaction rate at Ombudsman Services:Property is just RICS regulated surveyors looking after their own families.

Not being high achievers ourselves we have to say we don't see it in such simplistic terms.

Q. Mrs Leadsom and Mr Clark, why has the RICS been able to get away with not enforcing its Rules and Regulation for so long?

Q. Mrs Leadsom and Mr Clark, why does RICS the regulator see an 80%+ property complainant dissatisfaction rate at its company OS:Property to be, "effective?"

Q. Mrs Leadsom and Mr Clark, aren't the only beneficiaries of such scandalously inept regulation - enterprises?

Q. Mrs Leadsom and Mr Clark, why are regulatory bodies stuffed full of operators who hate those people who are merely seeking to look after their families but who are denied access to those tax avoidance schemes so enjoyed by Alan Duncan's high achievers?

Quite clearly, high achievers see regulation to be a hateful burden on their enterprising mission to maximise profits at whatever cost to consumers. Consumers are low achievers who are merely envious of high achievers' remarkable DNA.  High achievers' profits quite understandably need to be secreted in tax avoidance schemes in opaque former British colonies. High achievers' families quite obviously need far more money to get by on than those of low achievers. By definition it's why they are high achievers. Low achievers don't have the burdensome cost of flying their families business class to tax havens. Meanwhile the three lions continue to snore and although there aren't any lionesses to be seen the system has no difficulty in reproducing itself.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Gilbert - Workstock Number - 510458.

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