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Exactly, the OFT decided it was better off talking to consumer groups to form the basis of their report, the two example Licensing Authorities were only named as it strengthened their case as the best way to deliver what the consumer groups wanted.
I had a hard time deciphering the cryptic message in this statement of yours Angel? What exactly are you trying to say? You make a very good point about the select committee not being impartial. Although I suppose you didn’t realise that when you wrote it. You agree with me that the Oft report is about consumers, so why did the select committee feel fit to exclude consumer groups from oral examination?
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They certainly were'nt present, but it was their views that formed the basis of the OFT report so it could be argued that the OFT staff fulfilled the role.
No it can’t be argued that the OFT representatives filled the consumers roll. How can you have the nerve to say such a thing? If I was a consumer organisation I would be outraged at that suggesdtion of yours.
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Thats nonsense John and you know it, exactly how many people were called by the SC, it was considerbly more than the 2 you suggest in that statement.
I know exactly how many persons were called before the Select Committee but from what I wrote, I'm at a loss as to how you can draw the conclusion that I implied it was only two.
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The people concerned within the select committee, are elected representatives of us all, by calling them "jokers" it seems as though your preparing to discredit their findings when government kick out the suggestions made by the OFT. B. Lucky
Voter’s habits are sometimes intriguing, one cannot account for taste. Perhaps the voters of Hartlepool came to the conclusion that a monkey was far more palatable than the other political choices being served up to them.
The people on the select committee are indeed elected but that is as far as it goes. They do not represent me and they do not represent the 42% of voters who took it upon themselves not to vote at the last election. Of the 58% of the population that did bother to vote, the Labour Party got only 40.3% of the total vote. That means their views don’t represent a massive 59.7% of those who voted against them.
When you add the percentage of people who didn’t bother to vote, to the figure of those who actually voted against Labour, You will see that Labour got a derisory 25% of the overall National possible vote.
So the illustrious Labour dominated select committee, represent only 25% of the electorate. They do not, as you implied, represent us all, especially the 75% of the population who didn’t vote for them.
With reference to the Select committee members being Jokers, I qualify that statement. It was the five Labour MP’s who displayed the attributes of a clown. The two Tory MP’s had no or very little input in the proceedings, whatsoever.
Best wishes
John Davies.
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