Third-Party Appeals-For or Against

Poor Uncle Tom

Good point. The public sector is very much top heavy anyway, 600 odd quangos, 200 more virtual ghost departments. If HALF of these people had to go out and earn a crust in the private sector, they would starve.

Back on topic.
Overall ABP does what it says on the tin, but I believe begrudgery/revenge/gold digging is responsible for at least 30% of all appeals. If this element could be weeded out.....(dream on)

RKQ

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Overall ABP does what it says on the tin, but I believe begrudgery/revenge/gold digging is responsible for at least 30% of all appeals. If this element could be weeded out.....(dream on)

I'd agree with that but there must also be a huge number of genuine appeals that just don't happen, simply because people don't want to fall out with their neighbour!

Sometimes an Appeal can have long lasting ill feelings that people are not prepared to have, so they "let it go" rather than have bad feeling.

Getting rid of revenge/gold digging would be nice but would be so difficult to do. Of course preventing the withdrawl of an Appeal would rid us of Gold digging / blackmail for financial gain.

pseudo-tech

Poor Uncle Tom, it could be weeded out if a number of things were introduced from:

Only allowing points of appeal to contain the points that were raised at a local level;

Not allow appeals to be withdrawn once lodged;

Penalise vexatious appeals.