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Friday, 31 January 2020

Ombudsman ServicesPt 4: The Full English Cover-Up - (91) Off To Hell In An Anglo Saxon Cartesian Handcart.

Ombudsman Services Pt 4: The Full English Cover-Up - (91) Off To Hell In An Anglo Saxon Cartesian Handcart.

Ambrose, seems to have been so utterly bamboozled by Boris's banana bending Brexit baloney that he's completely failed to spot the top-down Anglo Saxon good for business philosophically bewildering so-called private justice that was dispensed - no fault of Europe - by Ombudsman Services:Property.

A scheme that was so Anglo Saxon and so philosophically superb that it ….. closed down.

A true-blue print for a de-regulated arms-length self-regulating post-Brexit Britain about to be unleashed on Anglo Saxons (and others) still drunk on the euphoria of having taken back control.

Saturday, 11 January 2020

Ombudsman Services:Property Pt (4) The Full English Cover-Up. 90 How Labour Party Politiciams Unquestioningly Embtaced the "Free-Market Model" of ADR - Alternative Dispute Resolution.

How Labour Party Politicians Unquestioningly Embraced the "Free-Market Model" of ADR - Alternative Dispute Resolution.


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Keir Starmer launching his bid in Manchester to be the next leader of the Labour party.


Keir Starmer: ‘The free-market model doesn’t work.’ Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer 
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Dear Reader,
We're told,
Keir Starmer appealed to the Labour left to back his bid for the leadership on Saturday as he denounced the “free-market model” as a failure and backed higher taxes on the wealthiest to pay for better public services.

   The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign denounced the "free-market model" of ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) and the Ombudsman Services:Property version of it 10 years ago. Unfortunately, not a single Labour Party MP was prepared to do anything whatsoever about it.

   The list of Labour Party politicians we've tried contacting over the years is impressive. Their almost total lack of a response wasn't.




Starmer’s bid for the support of Labour members who previously backed Jeremy Corbyn came amid signs of splits in the grassroots organisation Momentum, after it said it would recommend Rebecca Long Bailey as leader and Angela Rayner as deputy in an internal ballot.

   We tried raising the issue of what we believe was rigged market redress and consumers being hung out to dry by an OS:Property ombudsman with a habit of "arriving at decisions in an illogical manner" (DJS Research 2008-11) with Rebecca Long Bailey but never got a reply.

   There was no momentum there.
Speaking in Manchester, Starmer said the party should unite, and “trash” neither the last Labour government nor “the last four years” under Corbyn. But – although describing the 2019 manifesto as “overloaded” – he made clear he would also back a distinctly leftwing economic agenda with the aim of reducing inequality and increasing social justice.

   I said as much at meeting called by Luke Pollard MP in Plymouth Guildhall in 2019. I suggested that a Labour Party that wasn't prepared to place economic, social and "justice" justice at the heart of all it did was wasting its time. 

  That a modern, democratic Labour Party should surely be united in campaigning for justice for the victims of an ombudsman left free to dole out decisions that were to all intents and purposes - bonkers. The man wasn't interested.
“We have to be bold enough to say the free-market model doesn’t produce, doesn’t work ... the trickle-down effect didn’t happen,” Starmer told a meeting at the Mechanics’ Institute where the TUC was formed in 1868.

   We were bold enough to say to Yvonne Fovargue, the then Labour chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Consumer Protection, that the Ombudsman Services:Property's idea of private justice was failing to trickle down to bewildered consumers and that Martin Lewis' "Sharper Teeth: The Consumer Need For Ombudsman Reform" was a whitewash.

  What was needed were sharper eyes, brains and analysis, She wasn't interested.
“We have to rebuild an economic model that reduces inequality and protects working people.”

We need an economic model that reduces inequality and protects everyone. And when that economic model invariably goes wrong what we don't need are arrogant, unaccountable and remarkably dim individuals with stupendous job titles handing out eye-wateringly ludicrous decisions to unprotected vulnerable individuals in search of justice.
Speaking to the Observer, Starmer said that while he accepted that the UK would be leaving the EU at the end of January it was essential that it kept as close a relationship as possible with the European single market and customs union.
For the sake of the growing numbers of innocent victims of economic malpractice a close relationship with EU Directive 2013/11/EU on ADR is essential.


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Rebecca Long Bailey. Photograph: Chris McAndrew/UK Parliament

“We are leaving the EU but I do not, however, accept that the fight for a close economic relationship with the EU is over. On the contrary, I think it is more important than ever. And therefore the argument for a customs union and single market alignment is as powerful now as it was before the election.”

We sought to raise the issue of Ombudsman Services' strange interpretation of the EU Directive with Dame Helena Kennedy the then Labour Chair of the EU Justice Sub-Committee. She wasn't interested either.
On Monday Starmer, Long Bailey, Lisa Nandy and Jess Phillips will all go through to the next stage of the contest having gained the necessary backing of at least 22 MPs or MEPs. With 63, Starmer has more than double the tally of any of the other candidates. Emily Thornberry and Clive Lewis were still battling to secure the necessary nominations last night.

We tried raising the issue of the injustice of a property ombudsman handing out illogical Final Decisions with all of the above. None of them were interested.
After a meeting of Momentum’s elected steering group, the organisation decided on Saturday to recommend support for Long Bailey in its own ballot of members, arguing that she was “the only viable left candidate who can build on Labour’s socialist agenda, deepen democracy in the party and unite all of Labour’s heartlands at the next election”. The ballot will consist of two questions and will be sent to members on Monday or on Tuesday and will last 48 hours. The move drew immediate criticism from Laura Parker, a leading Momentum member who resigned as national coordinator after the recent election defeat.

   A socialist agenda that has no room for a fair, transparent, accountable and independent scheme of publicly owned and controlled ADR is pointless. In a democracy surely such a scheme just bloody work - for the victims and not the accused.




Parker tweeted: “Although I am pleased Momentum’s governing body accepted the principle of balloting its members on the leadership I’m sorry they seem to have decided in advance what the answer is. Members should be able to choose from all Leader & Deputy candidates.”

   Which is remarkably like how the Ombudsman Services:Property Ombudsman seemed to operate. We did suggest that the CEO and Chief Ombudsman's self-styled, "superb model of ADR" was a blueprint for the future. sadly that prediction is also coming true.
A Momentum spokesperson said: “We need a new generation of leftwing MPs to lead our party and build on Labour’s popular policy agenda. Our coordinating group believe Rebecca Long Bailey is the only viable candidate who will build on Labour’s vision for the future, deepen democracy in the party and unite all of our heartlands at the next election.”

   Not if she continues to ignore the corrosive and deeply undemocratic effects of private rigged justice she isn't.
Lisa Nandy won backing last night from over 60 Labour figures, including MPs, peers and council leaders. In a statement they said: “Too many people feel that Labour is unwilling or unable to understand their lives. They no longer believed in our ability to deliver radical change or to protect the things that mattered to them. In order to win back the trust of these communities Labour must listen to them.”

   Perhaps Lisa Nandy should begin her political journey to the summit by asking her erstwhile colleagues; Luke Pollard, Yvonne Fovargue and Dame Helena Kennedy why each of them saw nothing remotely wrong with a Property Ombudsman handing out illogical decisions if she's really committed to winning back that trust - or is it all just saying the right words at the right time in order to further yet one more political career that's doomed to end in failure? 
Starmer added: “We are in the very early days of what will be a long campaign. I am conscious that there are excellent candidates up against me.”

  Our campaign's taken 10 years so far  - perhaps Keir Starmer is the excellent candidate after all. We're sure Keir Hardie would have seen the injustice of rigged "redress" and seized the moment.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.