Dave wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2006 at 4:44pm:


Don't talk to me about slithery ex BBC news reporter Peacock who has recently told me that he refuses to reply to any further emails from me on the basis that he took as a personal insult my suggestion that he only stayed on at Ofcom to draw the large salary and pension rights despite Ofcom's spectacular failure to serve the interests of UK citizen consumers surely going against most of his own instincts as a former BBC reporter and war zone correspondent.

One can only assume that Mr Peacock has been informed by former senior New Labour person and now Ofcom CEO Ed Richards that he does not wish to see the end of ripoff revenue sharing numbers and thus all efforts by the public to remind Mr Peacock of his former commitements over 084/7 numbers on BBC Radio 4 You and Yours are to be conveniently sidestepped and ignored.  No doubt this is the real reason why Matt Peacock is now unwilling to respond to any further correspondence from me.  In the good old days someone placed in this kind of difficult position regarding public commitments they have given not being honoured would have simply resigned.  But that was before the era of New Labour.............................................

bbb_uk wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2006 at 5:37pm:


That is because Ofcom are an incompetent regulator who are failing in their duties under the Communications Act 2003 to consider the inerests of uk citizens and uk consumers as being their principle duty.

Unfortunately as far as I can seem most senior staff at Ofcom in fact only consider their next promotion and next knighthood or peerage from New Labour as being their principle duty.  Anyone with an ounce of pro consumer zeal on their CV who applies to Ofcom for a job almost certainly never even appears to get a first interview.