Luke Pollard MP Case 48507: Article 11 - Government ousts UK competition watchdog chair. Replaced by Rottweiler.

"Government ousts UK competition watchdog chair."  Simon Jack and Charlotte Edwards BBC business editor and business reporter. Published 21 January 2025. Hello Readers, Please support our campaign for a public inquiry into pro-business regulatory and ombuds schemes and the injustices they inflict upon consumers. Simon Jack and Charlotte Edwards tell us that, "The chair of the UK's competition watchdog has been ousted by government  ministers who felt that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had failed to convince them it was sufficiently focused on  growth." And, "that with the chancellor and business secretary at the World Economic Forum in Davos trying to drum up  investment, the government wanted to send a signal that it was serious about growth." Starmer-Labour are going for growth at any cost - and that cost will be borne by workers and consumers.  However, the government do not want to signal to consumers that it's happy to abandon them to the vagaries of unregulated growth and the often "illogical" and "irrational" decisions of pro-business-growth regulators and ombudsmen. Consumers are already being systematically failed by the regulatory system. Richard Kirkham in, "A Study Into Ombudsman Judicial Review" (Sheffield University) found cases, "in which an ombud decision was quashed due to flaws in reasoning... And 10 in which decisions were found to be irrational."  But how do you explain this flawed reasoning and irrationality? How do these people get the job in the first place? And why is their incompetence being swept under the carpet? Now, under Labour, it's set to get worse.  "Marcus Bokkerink, who has chaired the CMA since 2022, will be replaced on an interim basis by Doug Gurr, former boss of Amazon  UK." Amazon's former boss will take on his new role having helped to keep the company union-free and also be aware of the GMB's  on-going campaign: Make Work Better in Amazon. A campaign for union recognition for their easily-exploited Amazon members.   Doug Gurr, "is currently the director of the Natural History Museum in London."  Perhaps he should take time out from his busy schedule to update the museum's hominid section to show how it branched to evolve into; rapacious union busting de-regulated capitalists, those who succumbed to their exploitation and those who fight back.  Rachel Reeves is a key part of this recent rapacious Labour Party evolution, saying, "Every regulator, no matter what sector, has a part to play by tearing down the regulatory barriers that hold back growth. I want to see this mission woven into the very fabric of our regulators through a cultural  shift from excessively focusing on risk to helping drive growth," So, the cultural shift is to be one where, "Growth is Good - Regulation is Bad." It's also very Musky-Trumpian.  Simon and Charlotte continue, "Last year, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told a gathering of investors: 'We will make sure that  every regulator in this country - especially our economic and competition regulators - takes growth as seriously as this room does.'" Last year, and all the years before that back to 2017, we asked our MP Luke Pollard to take our complaint about; Monk and Partners,  The RICS, The RICS "appointed" Ombudsman Services, Yvonne Fovargue MP, Dame Helena Kennedy and The PHSO ombudsman  Dame Julie Mellor, "seriously." He has still yet to put anything in writing. And it's now: Day 2884. Seriously. Isn't this an abuse of process? And if not why not? "In a statement, Mr Bokkerink warned against competition authorities becoming 'vulnerable to short term expediency or vested interests' and that ,'businesses large and small being free to compete, innovate and have a fair shot at succeeding based on  merit...on a level playing field.'" Sadly, and like so  many of the former level playing fields that once graced our state schools, the competition-level-playing-field  is in the process of being sold off to those very vested interests he speaks of. It's expedient and its how The System operates. We agree with Mr Bokkerink's statement that, "The CMA's primary responsibility is to ensure consumers are well served by effective and fair competition." But we also believe it's the primary responsibility of; Regulators, Ombuds schemes and government. And that includes MPs. We approached Luke Pollard MP and his union, the GMB for comment. But nothing. It's how The System operates. Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.